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We didn't grow up overly religious, but there was an understanding that you had a duty as a citizen to help your fellow man.
I didn't grow up with pets, but I live alone and figured a dog might be good for me. His name is Drexl, and he's a shih-tzu.
People say to me now, 'Oh, it must have been so glamorous to grow up in hotels, eat in restaurants.' Of course, we hated it.
Everyone thinks you have to grow up to know who you are, but kids already know who we are. The world just beats it out of us.
I grew up in that world of power and politics in Washington, but when you grow up around it, you are completely unfazed by it.
Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.
I think everyone is born with humor, but your life can beat it out of you, sadly, or you can be lucky enough to grow up in it.
You can grow up without having to conform, stop going to shows, stop having a record collection, start being politically iffy.
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.
Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.
I did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is what you're going to do.'
I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.
I really did grow up in a world where we were taught that crime doesn't pay and we stood up when the teacher came into the room.
People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other.
I didn't grow up in public life. I lived with my mother in Boston, not in Washington, DC, so I was somewhat sheltered from that.
I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.
Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.
When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up.
I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.
When I was young, all I wanted to be was a movie star. At a certain point, I started to grow up and really care about what I did.
I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up.
I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.
I think, more than anything else, my dog's death has made me grow up. I find myself thinking about the world in a more serious way.
Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
I didn't just grow up in one environment, so it was easy for me, as a child, just to imitate and just be all these different people.
I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.
When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
When I was a kid, maybe 11, I remember saying, 'When I grow up I wanna have enough money to buy a really cool car, because I won't.'
I can't tell you how many people would say to me as a teenager, 'Why don't you grow up and start thinking about getting a real job?'
I remember running up to my dad and saying, 'I want to be an actor when I grow up!' And him saying, 'Yeah, well we'll talk about it.'
My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.
I would just like my children to be able to eat fish when they grow up. Now, I don't think there's anything controversial about that.
I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.
My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.
My dad knows every single accent from being an old Yiddish grandpa to being Indian or Jamaican. It was very cool to grow up with that.
Much as I resented having to grow up in Des Moines, it gave me a real appreciation for every place in the world that's not Des Moines.
I did not grow up in a cosmopolitan environment. I grew up in a little town in the middle of nowhere, pre-Internet, pre-college radio.
I've been sort of coasting on 'Peep Show.' So now it's kind of, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have to be an actor if I'm not careful.'
Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.
I'm not a practice religion freak. I didn't grow up in a religious family, but I have a faith.
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away.
I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing - hopefully.
Even during my father's 1984 gubernatorial campaign, it was, 'Do you want to grow up and be governor one day?' 'No. I am four.'
I want my kids to grow up in a country where, you know, we can still shout questions at the president.
Some people do need to grow up, but I don't think I'm there yet. I don't think I'm ready to do grown-up things and be a grown-up.