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"The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats."
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"I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up."
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"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing."
"I think from here on it's up to me to prove that I'm growing up and that I have other things to say, but in terms of the show it definitely gave me all of the opportunities I've had so far."
"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."
"Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up."
"Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up."
"Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up."
"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!"
"Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair."
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"The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting."
"God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered."
"If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth."
"For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard."
"It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3 years obsessing about the video game in exactly the same way that they'd be obsessing about the movie if they were working on that."
"I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me."
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