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I'd always done a lot of sniffing glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went to… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
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I studied and sang lot of jazz when I was growing up. I think that plays a little bit into some of… — Chris Young Copy Share Image
Yeah, no one really grows up competing in the bobsled. You have to be 16 years old before you can even drive… — Elana Meyers Copy Share Image
I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
One of my pleasantest memories as a kid growing up in New Orleans was how a bunch of us kids, playing, would… — Danny Barker Copy Share Image
I was an only child. Growing up, we moved a lot, so I didn't have any close friends. So the animals I… — William McNamara Copy Share Image
Almost three years ago, when I retired, my wife and I were talking about our philanthropic work and how does one help… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
I started a modeling agency and I had it for about five and a half years and it was the same time… — Amy Weber Copy Share Image
All in all, the communally reared children of Israel are far from the emotional disasters that psychoanalytic theory predicted. Neither have they… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Most 20th century academic physicists, and academia as a whole, simply did not want to touch the subject of consciousness. We have… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was blessed to be part of a great church. This is where I met many friends who have encouraged… — Bethany Hamilton Copy Share Image
I'm not a highly outgoing person. I'm pretty guarded when you first meet me. But being in a Speedo for my entire… — Anders Holm Copy Share Image
I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
Growing up poor is precisely as demeaning as you'd expect, and while forgiving bullies is easy, reliving those experiences emotionally is deeply… — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
When she read just now to James, 'and there were numbers of soldiers with kettledrums and trumpets,' and his eyes darkened, she… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Growing up, I had a very normal relationship with my brother and sister. But, over time, they became my best friends, and… — Logan Lerman Copy Share Image
I did keep detailed journals from about fifth grade on, and every so often as I was growing up, I would re-read… — Raina Telgemeier Copy Share Image
I'm really sorry for people growing up right now, because they have some cockeyed idea that they can get by with their… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Growing up in Vancouver, it's not like growing up, you know, in Middle America or the middle of Canada or something. It's… — Evan Goldberg Copy Share Image
To be quite honest, and anybody will tell you, growing up I was going to be a pro athlete. I didn't have… — Herm Edwards Copy Share Image
I was a big fan of Chris Benoit growing up. I was always a fan of usually the, I guess you can… — Cedric Alexander Copy Share Image
Growing up in Southern California, it's all car culture. When I was a kid, I knew every single model of every single… — Cheech Marin Copy Share Image
If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I am the youngest of four children - three boys and one girl. I don't think becoming an actor had anything to… — David Harewood Copy Share Image
You have to give them unconditional love. They need to know that even if they screw up, you love them. You don't… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been… — Bobby Orr Copy Share Image
Growing up I didn't want to be an actor. I sort of didn't want to go into the family business; the main… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Me and my brother growing up used to collect rookie and basketball cards, like MJ's and LeBron's. That's what we used to… — Collin Sexton Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was surrounded by R&B and Hip-Hop, and the closest thing I could find to dance was gymnastics which I… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never… — Magda Apanowicz Copy Share Image
Growing up, I used to play in a lot of U.S.A. Camps and as a kid I used to play in Canton… — Dwayne Haskins Copy Share Image
I like flawed characters very much. A lot of times I get asked to do parts that are kind of small but… — Bobby Cannavale Copy Share Image
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