#grew

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age. ↗

— Viola Davis

#acting #age #environment #escaping #grew

Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences. ↗

— Taylor Dayne

#black #did #grew #how #i

I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read. ↗

— Nina Blackwood

#grew #i #little #musicologist #ohio

I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. ↗

— Zooey Deschanel

#believing #down #down to earth #earth #grew

I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#asked #done #emulate #every #first

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#anything #basis #boy #daily #daily basis

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#drank #dust #frame #grew #his

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#added #arithmetic #awed #crystals #even

I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, 'Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,' and he would high-five me and say, 'Way to go.' ↗

— Sara Blakely

#coming #coming home #dad #encouraged #fail

I was a good surfer because we grew up a block from the water, and my father took us to the ocean the way other fathers take their kids to the park. ↗

— Jolene Blalock

#block #father #fathers #good #grew