#growing up

My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from. ↗

— David Alan Grier

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Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up. ↗

— Judith Guest

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Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up. ↗

— Natalie Wood

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Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

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Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming... So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to music and the whole bit. From then on, I was busy with it. ↗

— William Bell

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I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

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The art world seems so much bigger than it was when I was growing up. ↗

— China Chow

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I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

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I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that. ↗

— Harlan Coben

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I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it. ↗

— Joel Coen

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