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"Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes."
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"Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains."

"Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that."

"Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times."

"I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18."

"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."

"There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify."

"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."

"My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up."
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"Of the many guests we welcomed to the Mickey Mouse Club, my absolute favorites were the Lennon Sisters."

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"Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity."

"In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down."
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