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It was awesome growing up listening to Oasis and Paolo Nutini, but I also loved growing up listening to Ray Charles and Muddy Waters.
When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.
You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.
When I was growing up we didn't have a massive house and there were five women running around, so my dad and I had to stick together!
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
I didn't grow up with my dad, so it was always very funny to me, and always has been, what an important part DNA plays in one's life.
I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!
I was a big fan of 'The Smurfs' growing up, even though by default - my mom used to force me to watch because she was a 'Smurfs' fan.
No one aspires as a child to grow up and enter into a domestic partnership. But they do aspire as children to grow up and be married.
I never knew Steve Jobs. I met him once, but I never knew him. But growing up in the Silicon Valley, he was the hero. He was the guy.
I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?
I remember running up to my dad and saying, 'I want to be an actor when I grow up!' And him saying, 'Yeah, well we'll talk about it.'
Growing up, I felt insecure about my build. I didn't feel very feminine. But as time went on, I learned to completely embrace my body.
Americans are brought up to believe they can grow up to be the president of the United States. Brits are told, It won't happen to you.
When I was growing up I was an atheist, then an agnostic, and then I had a good eight or ten years of being quite a serious Christian.
When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.
If you grow up where a snow mountain lifts its proud crown on the home horizon, in some strange way it becomes a member of the family.
Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.
Remember that your ultimate goal is for your children to grow up secure in your love, strong in their faith, and with sound character.
Boston didn't always have the best reputation, nor did I, growing up in Boston, as a kid with challenges and obstacles in front of me.
Growing up, I never thought about becoming an actress because I never saw deaf people in TV or movies. I didn't think it was possible.
I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, Hollywood isn't much of a reality.
Don't we have to respond to people who don't seem normal to us? Will my child grow up able to accept that not everyone looks the same?
I don't really remember much about Kosovo. I only remember growing up in London, where my parents had to basically start from scratch.
The sense of being led by an unseen hand which takes mine, while another hand reaches ahead and prepares the way, grows upon me daily.
Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.
Growing up I had a lot of really negative energy in my life from people that were in my life, so I know to how to stand up for myself.
Now I'm growing and I can see my faults. I can look at myself objectively and say I can't blame anyone else; it was my own damn fault.
The question isn't so much "Are you parenting the right way?" as it is: "Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?"
So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!
Makes you grow up quick. Hard work makes you strong. I work hard every day; that's where I get my strength. That and knowing who I am.
One nice thing about growing up Catholic is it makes you open-minded about other people's religions, since ours is nuttier than yours.
When people talk about how in America, anybody can grow up to be President, I'm not sure George Bush is exactly what they had in mind.
I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.
Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn't go to the prom and stuff like that. It was always basketball for me.
I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent.
I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.
Maybe, there's a moment growing up when something peels back... Maybe, maybe, we look for secrets because we can't believe our minds...
I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal
If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your hearts will be broken.
I was very, very into animation when I was growing up. The Simpsons is still my favorite show. I have a really strong connection to it.
I've been around low-income people all of my life. I mean, growing up, low income, the community where I've chosen to live, low-income.
My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.
Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends, so that was nice.
Well, the stuff that I liked growing up was AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, but I also liked the Beatles and guys like Cat Stevens and Elton John.
Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.
Growing up, I remember the 'Cheers' finale and 'M*A*S*H' and all these amazing finales, and I remember them being very, very important.
I instantly connected with the sport and I have fond memories of growing up on my skating rink that my dad made for us in our backyard.
Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.