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"Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in."
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"I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else or as smart, or whatever."

"You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up."

"Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star."

"Remember, it's still a mystery to be an adult. If you knew it all before eighteen, you'd have nothing to look forward to."

"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."

"I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized."

"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."

"Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents."

"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!"
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"I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not."

"Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in."
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