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Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.
I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
Coming from California and growing up where I did, I've always had a fondness for and innate sensitivity to light, texture, and warmth.
In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.
As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently so.
Except, I think, it's more about me growing up and becoming an adult that I have this new best-friend type of relationship with my mom.
I go back there and all my friends are there when I have my golf tournament. They treat me the same way they did when I was growing up.
The nice thing about growing up in that kind of environment is you were exposed to so much -- music, plays, art exhibits, rock concerts.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.
Distance makes the heart grow fonder, a little bit, but there's a certain maturity level that just comes with experience and growing up.
When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life.
You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.
I should mention that while I was growing up, Einstein was presented as a worthy role model for a young boy who was good at his studies.
And if I ever have any children of my own, no matter how unhappy I may be, I am not going to let them have any cares until they grow up.
No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children so that we can grow up to blow you away.
I can understand the dilemma of growing up in a bubble, and then not knowing what to do when unemployment beckons and reality bursts in.
God cares most not about making us comfortable, but about teaching us to hate our transgressions and to grow up spiritually to love him.
Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns.
They say people from small towns have big dreams and that pretty much describes me. I had big dreams growing up and I'm still a dreamer.
Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.
Our moral imperative is to work with all our powers for that day when the children of the world grow up without the fear of nuclear war.
My writing is consistently influenced by everything I watched and listened to growing up, so it's just this crazy collage of everything.
I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.
I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility.
I was growing up in England and England was the only national team I knew, so I was actually very pleased to play at the national level.
I loved my family so much when I was growing up, my parents, my sister. I wanted to be able to give them everything they ever dreamed of.
Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.
Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.
If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
If you like cats and have some, you get kittens; and if you like kittens and enjoy having them about, they grow up and you get more cats.
Growing up I always used to shop in Oxfam. I'd find things for 50p and then take them home, cut them up and make them into something new.
My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.
When you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round and borderless.
When I was growing up, I wasn't an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.
There's absolutely no sort of acknowledgment or reward for this - except for the intangible of my kids growing up to be wonderful people.
Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.
I used to skip school to go there when I was growing up in Newark, ... I saw the Flamingos, the Heartbeats, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Jackson.
Growing up, I didn't see that many Muslims on TV and we don't see many now. But essentially I am a mother and that's the job I know best.
I was a total jock growing up. I went to super-dorky basketball clinics and was handpicked to play on a state team called the Texas Heat.
The motivations for using drugs, often it's pretty obvious and common: you know, peer pressure. You know, kids are struggling growing up.
Crime is a job. Sex is a job. Growing up is a job. School is a job. Going to parties is a job. Religion is a job. Being creative is a job
Nowadays, if you have a mustache, people look at you like you're crazy. But when I was growing up, I never saw my dad without a mustache.
Radio was my lifeline as a kid growing up in Winnipeg in the 1950s. It connected me with the wider world outside our little prairie city.
When you grow up on film, people sometimes have difficulties accepting the fact that you are growing up. They always imagine you younger.
We can't have everything! It took a lot of growing up for me to realize this unalterable fact and to discipline myself into accepting it.
I loved growing up in Portland because I'm not from L.A. or New York or Chicago or some cool city... It was a very regular suburban life.
When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.
Growing up, people would always say, 'You have such a pretty face.' It's kind of backhanded. That's the kind of things we have to stomach.
When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.