- Growing
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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
- Dart
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Sports
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was not allowed to talk about being adopted when growing up. I walked around feeling like I was going to explode.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Beach
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Famous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up as a kid, I played for Wallsend Boys Club, a famous boys club. I had such a good childhood and upbringing there.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always loved '90210' growing up. It was one of my favorites - the old-school '90210'.
- Innocence
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I always took things too personal and was very emotional, and I got made fun of for it.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020