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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
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Small
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic - those are sort of three layers of repression.
- Mississippi
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was an alcoholic, growing up, so I knew how scary that was from a child's perspective - the volatility.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was a handful growing up.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never danced growing up.
- Nov 07, 2020