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Image of Helen McCrory
Music really influenced me when I was growing up. I did go through a Jimi Hendrix phase. My hair was naturally quite afro, and I wore low-slung jeans with very high heels. Siouxsie and the Banshees had a lot to answer for. I was in a top hat with peacock feathers and thigh-high black boots. I was 17 -- old enough to know better.
- Helen McCrory
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Image of Marlo Thomas
It's so important to raise people to grow up to be who they are and not be forced to be who they're not. What an awful thing to do to people - it's like being in prison.
- Marlo Thomas
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Image of Michelle Rodriguez
There's something about strength that I really admire, that I failed to see a lot of when I was growing up.
- Michelle Rodriguez
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Image of Tracee Ellis Ross
I was very shy growing up. My shyness manifested as a big personality, as opposed to the wallflower personality. It's been a journey getting comfortable in my skin. I've worked on trying to find the authentic balance between the bravado of my personality that was sort of a defense and the truth within my bigness.
- Tracee Ellis Ross
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Image of Patton Oswalt
Growing up there are always those kids who are only happy when they are making someone else upset. That is unfortunately just how some people are. Some people are just born with bad wiring.
- Patton Oswalt
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Image of Ron Currie Jr.
Jay Wexler is my kind of writer--a weird one, and a wry one, and one who isnt afraid to act silly in a sort of bait-and-switch that, to the readers surprise, moves him as much as it makes him laugh. Like all the best comedians, Wexler is clearly nursing a heart that the world broke a long time ago. Ed Tuttle is a book that cant decide what it wants to be when it grows up, but as with most cases of arrested development, theres something very serious going on behind all the antics. Plus, there are pictures.
- Ron Currie Jr.
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Image of Francis Beaumont
There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
- Francis Beaumont
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Image of L'Wren Scott
I had to learnto sew when I was growing up, because nothing else fitted me.
- L'Wren Scott
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Image of Donald Ray Pollock
I didn't feel that so much as an outsider when I started writing; I've felt that way all my life. I don't know, man; I guess I was just wired wrong. When I was growing up, I always wanted to be somebody else and live somewhere else. I've always felt a little uncomfortable around people. And I'm not trying to romanticize this, because it wasn't romantic. I wasn't trying to be a rebel; I just always felt a little out of it. I think that's why it's pretty easy for me to identify with people living on the margins.
- Donald Ray Pollock
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Image of Jimmy Smits
People don't walk around thinking of themselves as bad people. You're part of the environment that you grow up in, and there can be decency in that. I always try to find a little glimmer of that, in anything that I do, because you can find places where there's humor or lightness in something that's deep and profound, and that tends to resonate more and make people more human. As an actor and performer, I think it resonates more with the audience when you do have the payoff.
- Jimmy Smits
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Image of Peter Lerangis
When we grow up," she said, "we'll have amazing families. Our dens will be better than this. Your kids and my kids will play together in a humongous room with every kind of toy and game." "Except I won't have kids," Dan said. "I'll come over myself and play.
- Peter Lerangis
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Image of David Henry Hwang
I felt pretty good growing up. I didnt feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole Charlie Chan-Fu Manchu thing.
- David Henry Hwang
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Image of Terri Irwin
When I was a kid, they'd say, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" kids would go Wonder Woman, an astronaut. Do you know what I always said? World domination - so we're on our way.
- Terri Irwin
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Image of John Flanagan
Sometimes, life threw up problems that even the wisest, most trusted mentor couldn't solve for you. It was part of the pain of growing up. And having to stand by and watch was part of being a mentor.
- John Flanagan
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Image of Geoff Dyer
I want to stress, this is the experience-growing up in a working-class family-that defined me and continues to define me. It's the core of my being. And it explains, incidentally, a good deal about my love of America.
- Geoff Dyer
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Image of Noel Clarke
All the young people grow up too fast and want to be able to do this, or that. When you get to the older age and you have a mortgage, bills, this and that you think: "If I had done that differently when I was younger, then I wouldn't be in this situation now."
- Noel Clarke
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Image of Suzanne Brockmann
This wasn't Weirdville, this was fricking Wonderland. Alice here was all grow up, but she was still chowing down on too much of that psychedelic mushroom.
- Suzanne Brockmann
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Image of Elizabeth Wurtzel
Love is rather impotent and pitiful: My father must have told me a million times how much he loved me, but that emotion - assuming it was even real - hardly had the strength to counter the many other acts of wrong he committed against me. Contrary to romance novels and the love-conquers-all mentality that even those of us who grow up in an era of divorce are - in response to some atavistic instinct - still raised to believe, love is always a product and a victim of circumstances. It is fragile and small.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Image of Kerri Walsh
You have to rely on your support system. Growing up, I always thought it was a sign of weakness to ask for help, but now I realize it's really a sign of strength to say, 'I need help, I can't do it all.'
- Kerri Walsh
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Image of Janice Galloway
I had thought that growing up's consolation was that you could escape from the arbitrariness of things, that somehow one acquired more control. Now you had two numbers until you were ninety-nine. And it wasn't true. Growing up was just more of the same but taller. What happened was all luck. There was no logic.
- Janice Galloway
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Image of Stacy Schiff
No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up,'
- Stacy Schiff
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Image of Sean Paul
My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That’s basically it. I’m not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I’m just reflecting on life.
- Sean Paul
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Image of Mike Myers
Very good training to just be a person is growing up in Canada. People say a lot of things about Canada, like that it's boring, but if you look around the world, you can praise boring. It's a very civilized place to grow up. I'm very proud of it.
- Mike Myers
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Image of Harry Allen Overstreet
The happiest thing that can be said about democracy... is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility.
- Harry Allen Overstreet
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Image of Annie Proulx
We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.
- Annie Proulx
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Image of Dylan O'Brien
I didn't grow up acting. I really just started, literally, when I was 18. I just feel like it's a thing of always just experiencing it and growing, as a person.
- Dylan O'Brien
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Image of Dylan O'Brien
Growing up, I was in love with Jennifer Aniston from Friends.
- Dylan O'Brien
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Image of Novala Takemoto
I am a lolita. I don't believe in growing up. No matter how old I get I remain devoted to ruffles and frills
- Novala Takemoto
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Image of Willard Wigan
At school I'd want to be so small that nobody could see me, and so my work depicts and reflects me - what it felt like to grow up in a world of pain.
- Willard Wigan
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Image of Nick Offerman
I learned the word non-conformist in fourth grade and immediately announced that I would grow up to become one.
- Nick Offerman
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Image of Adam Phillips
To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
- Adam Phillips
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Image of Michelle Tea
This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible.
- Michelle Tea
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Image of Sonia Sotomayor
When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become--whether lawyer, scientist, artist, or leader in any realm--her goal remains abstract. Such models as appear in books or on the news, however inspiring or revered, are ultimately too remote to be real, let alone influential. But a role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, 'Yes, someone like me can do this.
- Sonia Sotomayor
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Image of Kaui Hart Hemmings
...we’re just kids growing up on an island, doing bad things in pretty places.
- Kaui Hart Hemmings
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Image of Rob Reiner
I think I have a finely tuned sense of humor. I think just being around it and growing up in it... my dad and Mel Brooks and Norman Lear. These are the people I grew up around.
- Rob Reiner
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Image of Jason Newsted
I don't want to grow up,' Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living.
- Jason Newsted
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Image of Kelly Osbourne
I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music
- Kelly Osbourne
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Image of Louise Bourgeois
When I was growing up, all the women in my house were using needles. I've always had a fascination with the needle, the magic power of the needle. The needle is used to repair damage. It's a claim to forgiveness. It is never aggressive, it's not a pin.
- Louise Bourgeois
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Image of Rosa Parks
I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.
- Rosa Parks
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Image of Olivia Munn
Growing up I had a lot of really negative energy in my life from people that were in my life, so I know to how to stand up for myself.
- Olivia Munn
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Image of Matt de la Pena
Growing up as a mixed-race kid myself, when you are in the middle of it and you're young...you don't think about it consciously. It's your reality.
- Matt de la Pena
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Image of Jo Walton
I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the people were so real because they were the people the worlds would have produced. If you put Ged to grow up on Anarres or Shevek in Earthsea, they would be the same people, the backgrounds made the people, which of course you see all the time in mainstream fiction, but it's rare in SF.
- Jo Walton
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Image of Jo Walton
I sat on the bench by the willows and at my honey bun and read Triton. There are some awful things in the world, it’s true, but there are also some great books. When I grow up I would like to write something that someone could read sitting on a bench on a day that isn’t all that warm and they could sit reading it and totally forget where they were or what time it was so that they were more inside the book than inside their own head. I’d like to write like Delany or Heinlein or Le Guin.
- Jo Walton
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Image of Jim Carroll
You're growing up. And rain sort of remains on the branches of a tree that will someday rule the Earth. And it's good that there is rain. It clears the month of your sorry rainbow expressions, and it clears the streets of the silent armies... so we can dance.
- Jim Carroll
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Image of Christina Ricci
The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me
- Christina Ricci
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Image of Antoine Rivarol
That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he foolishly forsakes society for solitude; the brambles grow up in his desert heart.
- Antoine Rivarol
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Image of Nick Bantock
Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green light to simply make.
- Nick Bantock
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