quotes about Grew
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I haven't got any friends from where I grew up, but that's not to do with fame.
-- Aaron Taylor-JohnsonSource : "Aaron Taylor-Johnson: a star from nowhere". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2012.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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I've never been really great at trusting anybody, just because of the way I grew up.
-- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje -
I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to have everything I couldn't have when I was young.
-- Alan Jackson -
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We both grew into the people we wanted each other to be.
-- Alec Baldwin -
I was going to be a memory when I grew up.
-- Alejandro Zambra -
Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
-- Alexander Pope -
Something most people don't know about me is that I never grew up.
-- Alexander SiddigSource : "Alexander Siddig — Discovering the Uncommon Hero". Interview with E. Nina Rothe, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2011.
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It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.
-- Alison Bechdel -
At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia.
-- Amar Bose -
I grew up just outside of Austin, and my upbringing was fairly rural.
-- Amber Heard -
Right now I have more confidence in myself. I grew up.
-- Amelie MauresmoSource : The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.
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I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
-- Anita Diament -
I grew up learning to do more with less.
-- Ann KirkpatrickSource : "Democrats Split Over More Spending?". "Your World With Neil Cavuto", www.foxnews.com. September 8, 2010.
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the more visible my work became, the less visible I grew to myself.
-- Anne Truitt -
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I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.
-- Anson MountSource : "Q&A – Anson Mount (Cullen Bohannon)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com. November 2011.
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I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so...anoraky.
-- Bear Grylls -
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
-- Beverly Cleary -
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I grew up overnight on that day, Dec. 27, 2007.
-- Bilawal Bhutto Zardari -
i was'nt always black. there was this freckel that just grew and grew...
-- Bill Cosby -
I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.
-- Billy Corgan -
I think I grew a grey watching you procrastinate.
-- Brandon Boyd -
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I'm excited to be a part of the Marvel universe because I grew up with it.
-- Brett DaltonSource : "Gold Medalist Bryan Clay Goes Beyond Reason for Games". Interview with Moira Lawler, www.menshealth.com. April 23, 2012.
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I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman.
-- Cameron Diaz -
I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.
-- Charlize Theron -
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When I grew older, I thought I would become an even more special person. But, it's not true. I eat more and I know a lot more things but I just become more pathetic. Is this what it's like to grow old?
-- Cheon Eunbi -
I grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary.
-- Chester Himes -
I grew up in a household where we talked politics a lot and argued politics a lot.
-- Chris Hayes -
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I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.
-- Christopher Durang -
About time you grew up and became a vampire like the rest of us.
-- Claudia Gray -
When I became a Christian my confidence grew.
-- Cliff Richard -
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I definitely grew up on a lot of American bands. I didn't really know that there were any decent Australian bands until I was around 20.
-- Courtney BarnettSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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I grew up in a place that felt very integrated.
-- Craig Brewer -
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I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave.
-- David Guterson -
I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.
-- Don Cornelius -
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I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.
-- Elizabeth Moon -
I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm working on.
-- Ellen Page -
I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that's all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I'm supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up.
-- Ellen Page -
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I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.
-- Frank Langella -
I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater.
-- Frank Rich -
I grew up beyond proud - we didnt have much, but we had a lot of love.
-- Frankie Valli -
Maybe you's a stank ho, maybe that's a bit mean/Maybe you grew up and I'm still living like I'm sixteen
-- Freddie GibbsSource : "Song: 'Deeper'". 2014.
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In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew.
-- Freddie Mercury -
Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.
-- Gail Collins -
I grew up in front of a television. I guess I'll grow old inside of one.
-- Gilda Radner -
I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.
-- Graham Hawkes -
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I'm named after a computer and grew up really interested in them.
-- Hal Sparks -
It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
-- Hamish LinklaterSource : "Hamish Linklater Stops Time, Fights Aliens, Discovers The Future". Interview with Gillian Mohney, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 15, 2011.
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I grew up in Plano, Texas.
-- Hunter ParrishSource : Interview with Emily Poenisch, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.
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I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most.
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I grew up in what was not so much a familyas a genetic disaster.
-- Irvine WelshSource : 1995 Marabou Stork Nightmares, ch.2.
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I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.
-- J.H. WymanSource : "Showrunner J.H. Wyman Talks the Final Season of FRINGE, When to Expect Answers, Creating a Rewarding Conclusion and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 3, 2012.
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As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.
-- Jack Kerouac -
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I grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians.
-- Jasmine Guinness -
I grew up in front of a TV.
-- Jemaine ClementSource : Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. October 30, 2009.
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I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia.
-- Jerry Falwell -
My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in.
-- Joan Van Ark -
Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an “instrument of God's will.
-- Joe L. Wheeler -
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When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.
-- John Lennon -
I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there.
-- John Ratzenberger -
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I grew up Spanish, so I grew up watching a lot of novellas.
-- Julie GonzaloSource : "Julie Gonzalo Talks DALLAS, Working with the Original Cast, and Her Favorite Fights This Season". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 17, 2012.
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I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.
-- Katey Sagal -
I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I grew up.
-- Keith Haring -
I feel like I grew up too fast a long time ago.
-- Kendall JennerSource : "Kendall Jenner Is Now A Wall Street Journal Magazine Columnist" By Stephanie Marcus, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 16, 2015.
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I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly.
-- Kristin Hersh -
I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where I was definitely in love. It's just I grew to a point where deep inside I knew that I could never truly have a relationship with a woman. I don't know if they ever suspected. It was never brought up.
-- Lance Bass -
I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.
-- Lance ReddickSource : "'Wire' and 'Fringe' star makes music, too". Interview with John Carucci, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. January 10, 2011.
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I grew up with a great sense of insecurity in figuring out what I was and where I belonged.
-- LeCrae -
It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it.
-- Liam Neeson -
No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.
-- Lord Mountbatten -
James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.
-- Mark Wahlberg -
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I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.
-- Marsha Norman -
The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.
-- Martin Mull -
I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it.
-- Mary Ann Mobley -
Things grew and lived in constant adversity, ingenious in solving problems of existence.
-- Mary AstorSource : Mary Astor (1968). “A Place Called Saturday”
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I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part.
-- Matthew PerrySource : "Matthew Perry says ‘Friends’ and ‘Go On’ are his two favorite roles". www.hypable.com. October 8, 2012.
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You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.
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I grew up in Arizona and have a lot of buddies that are cowpokes.
-- Michael Biehn -
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I perceive and relate to the world through where I grew up; that's part of me. It's what I judge everything else against.
-- Michael Sheen -
You have to understand, I grew up in the shadow of the Safeco tower.
-- Mike McGavick -
My eldest son, Jack, grew up with me as a 'part-time' dad.
-- Mike McGavickSource : "McGavick's Confession". www.realclearpolitics.com. August 25, 2006.
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I grew up in the Ukraine 'til I was about 7, and then I moved to L.A.
-- Mila Kunis -