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I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.
I'm definitely somewhat of a tomboy. I grew up a pretty big tomboy actually, and was really obsessed with basketball.
I grew up in the suburbs. I'm an angry suburban nergo. I'm bad in, like, Starbucks. I'll hurt you over a frappuccino.
I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.
I'm still very affected and moved by their music - maybe in a way that's different from someone who grew up around it.
I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.
I grew up in Nairobi, which is the capital of Kenya, so it's hustle and bustle, and there's always something going on.
I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.
My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big hoops!
La guerre, la guerre, everything la guerre. That's how I grew up. So for me, it's real. It's not something in the past.
I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.
Just because I was 30 doesn't mean I was grown. God, I was such an idiot. I was an absolute idiot at 30. And I grew up.
I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line.
I never ever thought that I would be in a Bond film, ever, which is weird because I grew up loving these amazing movies.
The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we do to each other.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It's good for the soul.
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.
When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I'm basically the child of Richard Dawkins.
I think, and a lot of that has to do with where I grew up in California; [status] isn't something I think about that much.
My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn't very good, but my pronunciation isn't terrible.
I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.
I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict. I was always encouraged to be a free-thinking individual.
I grew up only singing country. I did listen to like Debbie Gibson and other pop music, but I would only sing country music.
I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women's rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day.
I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like.
I have always been physically active. I grew up a tomboy and [was] into sports, so staying active is something that I enjoy.
I think it's a combination of my peoples that I grew up under, places that I hung out is what contributed to where I'm at now.
I grew up in that world of power and politics in Washington, but when you grow up around it, you are completely unfazed by it.
When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.
I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.
I grew up in the '90s. I listened to a lot of The Clash, Velvet Underground and Roxy Music. I wasn't into Boyzone, or anything.
I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment.
I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla.
We were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time.
I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn’t see that as a job description anywhere.
As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.
I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!
I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of barbecues, a garden, friends.
I grew up listening to gospel. That was the only thing that I had reference to because that was what my family was involved with.
I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.
When I sit here and see that the eight brothers from the neighborhood that I grew up with still have success, it had to be magical.
I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow.
I grew up when the whole Motown thing was huge. The charts in those days were dominated by groups more than solo artists at one point.
I grew up in London, and that's where I spend most of my time. Unless I have a really good reason not to be, I'll always be in London.
I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard was touchable, kissable.
I just celebrated my fourth birthday on the set, my fourth birthday cake. So it's been awhile and, you know, I grew up with these guys.
I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.
I really grew up more of a people pleaser and I just wanted to make people happy, and maybe didn't always say exactly how I was feeling.
I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.
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.