Growing Quote by Retta Download Open image “Growing up in Jersey makes you a little bit ballsier, a little more outspoken.” — Retta ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Growing Growing up Little More Up
A lot of tough players come out of Jersey. Tough-minded kids. That's what I was. — Doris Burke Copy Share Image
Even though I am from Jersey, not to put Jersey down, I like Jersey, but I think I'm more cultured. — Bitty Schram Copy Share Image
My feeling about growing up in New Jersey was, 'How come I'm not in New York?' That being said, I'm older and I have… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
People don't need to necessarily see me in the jersey to understand who I am and what message I'm trying to get across with… — Dwyane Wade Copy Share Image
I think growing up in the shadow of New York shaped me for life. Hey, you come from Jersey, you get used to being… — David Bryan Copy Share Image
The best shows to tweet about are the ones that are hilarious, but they might not necessarily be trying to be hilarious. Those are… — Retta Copy Share Image
I started once a week in North Carolina at a pub called Charlie Goodnight and met a lot of comics there. Then I moved to L.A., and if you're not known, it's hard to get stage time. So you start out doing what they call 'bringers' - you have to bring five people if you wanna get on stage. It… — Retta Copy Share
I moved here in 1997. It's 20 years later, and I finally feel like I'm in this business. I feel like I could call… — Retta Copy Share Image
If you follow me on social media, you may know that I am an L.A. Kings fan. I'm not kuh-ray-zee, but I am definitely… — Retta Copy Share Image
I know that meeting a black woman with a love for hockey is a bit like stumbling upon a unicorn in the woods... or… — Retta Copy Share Image
I think anybody who works with Malcolm, the first thing they go, 'Holy cow! I'm working with Theo!' because that was part of my… — Retta Copy Share Image
When I started, it was all meter maids or the sassy nurse, or the sassy receptionist in the hospital. And I felt like: Are… — Retta Copy Share Image
I was doing chemistry in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina. It was the first time I'd lived alone, and I had an epiphany… — Retta Copy Share Image
If your social media addiction comes between your relationship, you might want to quit. — Retta Copy Share Image
For Christmas I do gift bags for my friends and the cast, and I put 'treat yo self' key chains in there. And people… — Retta Copy Share Image
Once the writers got to know the actors, they would include certain things - personality-wise - for the characters because they knew you liked… — Retta Copy Share Image
I have a strong feeling about this quick movement and changing of society and populations growing - something scary. — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated. — Naomi Klein Copy Share
I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me… — Cybill Shepherd Copy Share Image
I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These immigrants have… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they're going to feel that way at 72. You… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
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… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind. — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image