- Piano
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing Up Quotes
Childhood memories, changed towns, and questions of identity.
These quotes span the specific texture of growing up - undecided ambitions, hometowns that later feel transformed, and early sporting or family memories that stick for life. Related reflections continue in Experience.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
- Mountain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I loved Boy George, George Michael, Annie Lennox, Queen, Freddie Mercury, Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand and Diana Ross.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in Delhi, India, I did puzzles, explored numbers, and searched for patterns in everyday settings long before I ever saw an equation.
- Kelly
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listened to R. Kelly growing up.
- Growing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have anything growing up.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Balls
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid growing up, you maybe secretly wanted to be an actor, but you never said.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020