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When my sister and I were growing up, she was made out to be the goody-goody one.
Growing up, I loved Boy George, George Michael, Annie Lennox, Queen, Freddie Mercury, Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand and Diana Ross.
Growing up in Delhi, India, I did puzzles, explored numbers, and searched for patterns in everyday settings long before I ever saw an equation.
A lot of times, I faced bullies - or the 'big dogs' at school. What I wanted 'Red Rising' to be is not necessarily an indictment on bullies, but it reflects my experiences and attitudes that I had with bullies growing up.
You cannot separate sexuality from cheerleading. It is inherently what it is - growing up with the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders and all of that stuff.
It was awesome growing up in New Orleans because there were great metal bands, there were great hardcore bands, there were great thrash metal bands in the middle '80s and what-not. But then, take me out of New Orleans, and I moved to Fort Worth in 1987, and there's a scene there, too. And Texas absolutely has a different sound.
In the 1980s when I was growing up in the Berkshire town of Maidenhead I was heavily into tennis. It was the era of Borg and McEnroe. I used to spend hours hitting balls against a wall, imagining I was beating them both.
When I was a kid growing up, you maybe secretly wanted to be an actor, but you never said.
I came from Iowa, south central Iowa. It was a very rural area. I saw a lot more hogs growing up than I saw people.
Growing up, I was certainly drawn to comedy, but my goal was just to be as well-rounded an actor as possible. I really liked Daniel Day-Lewis, and I thought, 'Oh, he's a good guy to try and emulate.'
There is something about growing up in the Midwest that gives a different kind of sensibility. But if I'm feeling insecure, the smiles and politeness get upped a notch, and maybe that isn't totally reflective of how I'm feeling on the inside.
I was such a fan of Quentin's growing up. I remembered I wanted to see 'Pulp Fiction' so badly, but my mom had seen it, and even though she loved it, she just thought it wasn't appropriate for a 13-year-old.
Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic - those are sort of three layers of repression.
I'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like.
My dad was an alcoholic, growing up, so I knew how scary that was from a child's perspective - the volatility.
But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it.
Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial, or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing up.
When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.
I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.
Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
I watched the Disney Channel all the time growing up. 'Lizzie McGuire' was my all-time favorite. I'm pretty sure I had every piece of merchandise that involved Lizzie. And I loved 'That's So Raven.'
I liked Roy Jones, Sugar Ray Leonard, Ali... those were the guys I was looking at growing up.
Growing up as an amateur, I wasn't much of a power puncher. I was more of a speed guy.
Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.
I had trouble getting jeans when I was growing up. I had little skinny legs and this booty that came out of nowhere.
When we were growing up we were all asked to accept ourselves as British citizens, and I still hold on to this idea that multicultural Britain is possible.
I always hated my mole growing up. I even thought about having it removed. At the time I didn't do it because I thought it would hurt, and now I'm glad I didn't.
It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.
Yes, my fashion sense is outrageous, but I am a rebel. I am young and still growing up.
I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.
Growing up, I always thought of Detroit as a basketball town because of the Pistons, but everyone says it's really, at its core, a football town.
Growing up in the middle of nowhere, there was a lot of twangy music around, but it didn't really connect with me then.
My dad was a big runner. Growing up, I watched him do half marathons, and he was always running six or seven miles.
Growing up, I had a natural love for women like Diana Ross, Mary Wells, Ella Fitzgerald. Then I got into Dionne Warwick, Nina Simone, and Patsy Cline.
When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.
I just longed for certain connections and attachments with another person that I really lacked, I believe, growing up.
Growing up, I'd watch 'The Cosby Show' and 'The Fresh Prince of Bel Air;' I'd look at the little brown girls and be inspired by them.
I didn't have a brown-skinned superhero growing up who wore cornrows and who reflected the inner city where I come from in Philadelphia.
Mustafa Ali is who I wanted to see when I was growing up. I'm not wearing anything on my head; I'm not saying anything in Arabic. I'm just going to come out as Mustafa Ali.
At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work.
I think everybody's always attracted to both sexes. I mean, I think that women are very attractive. I've kissed girls, but everybody experiments. It's part of growing up.
I come from a big family of storytellers and, growing up, I liked hearing about the years before I was born.
If I had planned to be a singer, I would have got trained. In fact, I was more into theatre and plays while growing up.
Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
As a kid growing up in a rural area, I was always tinkering with parts and machinery.
If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.
Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.
When Yauch died, it was really like losing my older brother. I mean, I have biological older brothers, but growing up, Adam really was my older brother.
We cannot forget about Rachel Maddow. She is the Peter Pan of MSNBC. But instead of never growing up, she never gets to the point.
When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.
I have nice muscle tone in my arms. I can't really take credit for it, though - all the members of my family do. A lot of arm wrestling happened in our family growing up!
Growing up, I read all three of Frederick Douglass' autobiographies by the time I was 12.
Growing up, when I'd throw out the trash, I'd toss it and dart because all the cats would come running. That's why I still don't like cats.
One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something.
I was not allowed to talk about being adopted when growing up. I walked around feeling like I was going to explode.
When I was growing up, every show had live music. Now, almost none have live music. Probably 97 percent of the shows on television are probably synthesized, or mostly synthesized, and that's a shame.
We all know from growing up with TV that John Wells shows are usually very large ensembles with amazingly written characters. He tends to redefine the way stories are told in a specific genre, whether it's 'China Beach,' 'The West Wing,' or 'E.R.'
Growing up as a kid, I played for Wallsend Boys Club, a famous boys club. I had such a good childhood and upbringing there.
I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.
I'm from Queensbridge. It's the largest housing project in New York. And growing up in Queens, it was different because I wasn't really experienced in traveling to the City. I never really got used to the City.
I always loved '90210' growing up. It was one of my favorites - the old-school '90210'.
I've always felt this, from when I was growing up to now with my son Riley. We don't let them be little. I was not a normal kid, but I had a sense of innocence far longer than we let kids.
Growing up, I always took things too personal and was very emotional, and I got made fun of for it.
I had a lot of Barbies growing up, and a lot of porcelain dolls, but I was scared of them. I was so scared of them, I would try to turn their head away and would make my mom take them out of my room.
I trained in Toronto with a private acting teacher, who was wonderful, for years growing up.
I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.
I've always been sort of drawn to storytelling, and I was always very playful growing up.
When I was growing up, I lived in a neighborhood that was largely Latino and I thought I was Latino!
We can all agree that first loves can be a scary thing, and that growing up is hard to do.
Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.
I watched a ton of cartoons growing up, but I don't remember specifically what networks they were on, I'll be honest. But I did like cartoons as a kid.
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