I came up during the formative years of TV.

Most of my formative years were in Chandigarh.

My mother was a politician in my formative years.

I spent most of my formative years in rural Oregon.

I've had such an inspiring and formative journey in my career.

The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.

My formative years were in Jersey and I'm kind of Jersey at heart.

The things you encounter in your formative years always stay with you.

My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.

The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

I do come alive in front of a camera. The first video I ever made was a formative moment for me.

The time for me in the Peace Corps was easily the most formative experience I've had in my life.

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

In my musically formative years, I grew up listening to Suzy Bogguss, Trisha Yearwood, Terri Clark.

For me, it was a formative experience reading Eliot when I was younger. 'The Waste Land,' in particular.

My formative years were not spent in Hyderabad, so I can only understand Telugu, but I love the culture.

A formative cookbook for me was Nigella Lawson's 'How to Eat.' Its warm, conversational tone is wonderful.

Going on to train with Lecoq in Paris meant I discovered European theatre at a formative moment growing up.

I love the Zucker brothers' films - 'Airplane!,' 'Top Secret' and 'Police Squad!' - are my formative experiences.

My conscious life has all been in Kenya, and it's my point of reference. But going back to Mexico was very formative.

I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.

My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.

There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.

Everyone has an idea over time of what the business should be, and during the formative period, too many opinions could be disruptive.

People of Maharashtra are close to my heart, and this is where I became who I am, and this has been instrumental in my formative years.

During Manmohan Singh's formative years, it was a matter of great pride to be called to the Indian Civil Service for serving the Empire.

Certainly, my exposure in high school to writers like Flannery O'Connor, Shusaku Endo, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Graham Greene was formative.

When I was a kid, my dad used to take me out to the race track, and so many formative experiences have to do with associations like that.

I grew up watching his movies; I know everyone did, but I really feel that a lot of my formative years were informed by Woody Allen films.

A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.

I was a huge fan of 'Blade Runner.' That was a pretty formative film for me growing up. It really got my sci-fi juices flowing, as it were.

The biographies of the great rarely report much about the nanny, but for many, she will have played a crucial role in their formative years.

The most formative time of our lives are the years between birth and age 21, when we explore who we are and learn from those who surround us.

Probably the most formative thing was at the age of four my Granddad took me fishing. That actually became a major part of the rest of my life.

That experience of being at Mt. St. Helen's was really formative. I don't even know if I'd be a photographer. It was an essential moment for me.

I absolutely loved my time at 'Brothers & Sisters,' what I learned and everything that went with it. It was an incredibly formative time for me.

I grew up in Louisiana and spent my formative years there. There's a contradictory nature to the place and a sort of sinister quality underneath it all.

My doctor felt that the main contributing factor was so many years of malnutrition, especially during my formative years, even before I got into modeling.

My formative years were all about 'Star Wars' - the first three, not the last crap, obviously. I understood 'Star Trek' but it was too caricatured for me.

While still in college, I started my first Internet company - American Information Systems - a dial-up Internet provider in the Internet's formative years.

I read too many romance novels during my formative years. I have a penchant for romantic comedies. I understand why 'Romeo and Juliet' came to such a pass.

I'm an obsessive musical theatre person, so some of the most formative albums for me were, you know, the 'Phantom Of The Opera' soundtrack or 'Into The Woods.'

I think you could go back to any filmmaker or musician or artist, and look at what their input was in their formative years, and you could trace all the lines.

I think my formative experiences were really in junior high, where at a typical public school we were doing little genetic experiments, very classic experiments.

As well as being a creative genius, Vidal Sassoon was a formative figure of the Sixties. Along with the Pill and the mini-skirt, his influence was truly liberating.

A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences.

I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the pattern of my career.

I just coach the way I was coached when I was young, in my formative years. I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.

What I can say, categorically, is that working with Sarah Paulson and Kathy Bates will have been the most formative experience for me, as an actor, for the rest of my life.

A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.

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