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Growing-up Quotes
"Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents."
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"Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl."
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"Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that."
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"I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties."
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"I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world."
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"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."
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"L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who."
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"I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual."
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"There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify."
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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."
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"I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing."
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"Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up."
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"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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"As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed."
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"Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up."
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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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"I hate that word, mature, but I guess I am growing up."
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"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."
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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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"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."
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"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."
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"Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me."
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"Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes."
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"I haven't had a lot of celebrities around me growing up."
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"My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up."
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"Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me."
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"I felt like a dork growing up so this is shocking."
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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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"You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess."
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"Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains."
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"Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star."
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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!"
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"I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs."
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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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"When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't."
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