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"We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up."
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"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!"

"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."

"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."

"I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties."

"You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess."

"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing."

"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."

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

"Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up."
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"There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way."

"Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself."

"There will always be a few people who just want to knock you down or are jealous or just want to be horrible for the sake of it. I don't know what drives someone to be nasty."

"I want to communicate through my music. If you want to know Geri Halliwell listen to my album: it tells you more about me than a documentary ever could."

"It's really important to remember that most people in the public eye are human for a start and a lot of things that you read in the media get slightly misconstrued and manipulated."

"The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing."

"Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum."

"I'm never getting too lonely because it's the kind of disease where you might sit in front of the TV with three bags of biscuits, rather than communicate with the world."
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