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Growing up, I was in all the musicals and everything... I'd come home from school and bash out a few Whitney Houston songs.
Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.
Growing up, I always liked so many different sounds from so many different genres - the different aspects they could bring.
A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
I've always had an argument with my best friend that Spider-Man was way better than Batman. I was a massive fan growing up.
There is a certain expectation of girls to eventually grow up and behave and fall in line. I've always bucked against that.
The beginner hugs his infant poem to him and does not want it to grow up. But you may have to break your poem to remake it.
The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches.
Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?
I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes
Growing up, I always dreamed of winning an NBA championship, never a gold. A gold was something that never crossed my mind.
Don't move to Seattle and write a stupid sex advice column. That's a waste of time and you need to grow up and get serious.
Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.
I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18.
Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.
I went every Sunday to church when I was growing up, and I think that music had an affect on me before my memory can recall.
When you raise kids, you want them to grow up and be successful. If they can grow up and be like you, it's quite flattering.
[My parents] met in university back in the '70s. And I didn't grow up with my father. He - they separated before I was born.
Oh I love horror movies, yeah. I think my favorite movie growing up was 'The Omen.' I actually wanted to be that little kid.
Learning appears as a way of staying young, perhaps of staying alive, and also as a way of growing up, perhaps facing death.
Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.
When I was growing up, my idea of Led Zeppelin was all epic lasers, castles, and ten-minute drum solos - that sort of thing.
In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock will hear the tune over a million times.
Giving up something that no longer serves a purpose, or protects you, or helps you, isn’t giving up at all, it’s growing up.
You deal. You survive. You grow up and you build a career. And you remember these big/little hardships. They make you human.
Growing up I always shopped at Victoria's Secret with my mom and saw Angels like Gisele and Karolina Kurkova in the windows.
I'm very fortunate to have parents who have kept me grounded, so I hopefully won't end up in a bad situation when I grow up.
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast.
There weren't many black players when I was growing up, and I remember playing and looking up to the ones that were playing.
[White House] feels even more like home now because you have all these memories that were formed watching your kids grow up.
I had very big lips growing up, so my brother started to call me Scooter Fish because he decided a scooter fish has big lips.
One of the best feelings I had growing up was being completely exhausted at the end of the day after playing outside all day.
We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.
I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.
If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!
I just want my fans to grow up and enjoy the music first, I don't want to change the world that's not what my music is about.
I didn't know anything about fashion, growing up in Orange County. I just knew about it through music, how ska bands dressed.
I was the youngest of six kids, so yeah, feeding myself was important, but it's not like I was obsessed with food growing up.
In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.
Madea is a cross between my mother and my aunt. She's the type of grandmother that was on every corner when I was growing up.
When I was growing up, to be an emcee meant to write the most clever, intellectual, and wittiest rap. And that's what we did.
I had a lot of growing and a lot of denying of self to do. I am not easily won over, but when I am, I am completely won over.
I'd pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up.
That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.
Study hard; and you might grow up to be President. But let's face it: Even then, you'll never make as much money as your dog.
The adventures of the boy who doesn't want to grow up has universal appeal. We all want to keep something of the child in us.
My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much growing up.