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Music really influenced me when I was growing up. I did go through a Jimi Hendrix phase. My hair was naturally quite… — Helen McCrory Copy Share Image
A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. That poor miserable brat… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
My idol growing up was Charlie Chaplin. I was obsessed with him. I mean, while other kids were watching Jim Carrey and… — Josh Gad Copy Share Image
My parents are amazing. When I said I wanted to go into film, they didn't understand it, but they were incredibly supportive.… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
In giving our daughter life, her father and I had also given her death, something I hadn't realized until that new creature… — Mary Cantwell Copy Share Image
For some reason as a kid growing up in Lubbock, Texas, I always thought I was going to go to UCLA. I… — Brad Leland Copy Share Image
If you don't connect yourself to your family and to the world in some fashion, through your job or whatever it is… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Thanksgiving… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Inside me, I think that an animal goes through a lot of pain in the whole cycle of death in the slaughterhouse;… — Zack de la Rocha Copy Share Image
I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonham… — Eddie McClintock Copy Share Image
I grew up in Long Island City. When I was growing up, my parents owned a women's clothing store in Queens. It… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from inborn behavior… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
My fellow Wilmington, North Carolina native Meadowlark Lemon is a true national treasure. I watched him play for the Harlem Globetrotters when… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
I have a real problem with rock music because it seems that lineage doesn't really exist. When you grow up, you're told… — Kele Okereke Copy Share Image
Growing up, my mom had a catering business. I used to help her pretty early on and loved doing it. My mom… — Kelis Copy Share Image
When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be?… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
After a while, you're growing up so quickly and you begin to not know your parents anymore. You're left with the memories… — Diane Guerrero Copy Share Image
A woman growing up under American ideas of liberty in government and religion, having never blushed behind a Turkish mask, nor pressed… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
I know how I felt when I saw things like 'Fame' on television when I was growing up and how that was… — Brian d'Arcy James Copy Share Image
I was a swimmer growing up, which meant being in the pool at 5 A.M. You get used to it. You get… — Teddy Sears Copy Share Image
Growing up in New Orleans, my mom and dad were churchgoers. I would go to church with them. Also, I was going… — Avery Johnson Copy Share Image
Think about all of the families where the father is a doctor and the son is a doctor or generations of coal… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
I was living, growing up in a very traditional household and yet at the same time I was going to school in… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
If you look at our theories of social pathology and then at the dismal conditions in which children grow up in our… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself. Acting for kids… — Jennifer Jason Leigh Copy Share Image
The children who are appreciated for what they are, even if they are homely, or clumsy, or slow, will grow up with… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
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The seed of God is in us. If the seed had a good, wise and industrious cultivator, it would thrive all the… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
When I got my start, I kind of got my big break with The Princess Diaries and during the press rounds for… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I really struggled with confidence. You go through those awkward, dorky, geeky stages, and growing up in the… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan is my idol. Everybody has that person growing up that made them see things a little differently than they did… — Richard Harmon Copy Share Image
I miss when I was a child & I didn't care what people thought. I miss when I would never reject my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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