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My father was never very friendly. When I was growing up, I thought the doorbell ringing was a signal to pretend you weren't home.
My biggest influence growing up was Avicii, who put me onto creating the sorts of melodies that feature throughout my songs today.
I don't think that growing up in the entertainment industry is the healthiest place for kids. The track record kind of shows that.
Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.
The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.
Part of growing up is not waiting in line at a hipster breakfast restaurant. The eggs taste the same across the street. I promise.
When I was growing up, David Bowie was my idol. I grew up in inner-city London, and he was from Brixton, which is even more urban.
I feel like life is so special and so great, every year I feel like I learn more, and I grow, and I think it's exciting to grow up.
Whenever I get into a tough situation...I think of growing up, and I say, 'This situation won't be the worst one I've ever been in.
The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early.
I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.
The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmoth.
I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.
We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to.
Growing up I watched a lot of Hong Kong movies, I watched big stars like Chow Yun Fat, Andy Lau, and Tony Leung on the big screens.
My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu.
I can't tell you how many people would say to me as a teenager, 'Why don't you grow up and start thinking about getting a real job?
Maybe it was just part of growing up with someone. Once you have a rhythm and stay with it long enough, it's not hard to find again.
My dream of course, as a writer and a person who's an entertainer, is: Grow up to be Mindy Kaling, don't grow up to be Mindy Lahiri.
While games are fun to play, children should grow up not just being the consumers of technology but also the creators of technology.
When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you,'
Care about your children. Just bless them instead of worrying, as every child is the little Buddha who helps his parents to grow up.
I didn't grow up in church. I had no concept of God - existence, I - the name Jesus was synonymous with tooth fairy and Santa Claus.
I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.
I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.
Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.
I was a huge 'Star Trek' fan. I loved the 'Twilight Zone' growing up. In the future, I hope to create some thoughtful, sci-fi drama.
The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.
We are growing up. We are growing up! Out of the idiocies - the ignorances of racism and sexism and ageism and all those ignorances.
I never really thought I had an extensive vocabulary like that, and I'm not an avid reader. I didn't read a lot growing up - at all.
I didn't just grow up in one environment, so it was easy for me, as a child, just to imitate and just be all these different people.
This is what I've learned, in my life: Headbanging is crucial. Growing up is hard to do. There's nothing wrong with wearing a dress.
Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
I wrestled my guys growing up. I've wrestled with Hulk Hogan. I've wrestled against Shawn Michaels. I've wrestled against Ric Flair.
When I was a kid, maybe 11, I remember saying, "When I grow up I wanna have enough money to buy a really cool car, because I won't."
I think that growing up very poor in a very wealthy town gave me a sense of being an outsider, and I hated it when I was growing up.
I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.
Remember when you're young and you think your dad is Superman? And then you grow up and realized he's just a drunk who wears a cape.
I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.
Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.
I went through some real challenges growing up. I joined the Army two weeks out of high school when I was 17, and never looked back.
I am my father's daughter. It was not up to me growing up. I was his hunting and fishing buddy, so I've been shooting my whole life.
It felt like it disrupted my rhythm in growing up. But I will say that I'm really grateful for [my mother's] own personal transition.
I would just like my children to be able to eat fish when they grow up. Now, I don't think there's anything controversial about that.
My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.
I looked up to Don Quarrie and Michael Johnson when I was younger. They were the best in the 200m which was my main event growing up.
I often speak about tennis being one of the most important sports when I was growing up, for my hand-eye coordination and quick feet.
I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.
I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.
If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses.