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"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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"When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't."

"As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed."

"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, 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 growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs."

"Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes."

"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."

"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing."
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"I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me."

"But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table."

"Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief."

"It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers."
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