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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.
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Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.
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The whole of Cornwall has become antiseptic. When I was growing up in St. Austell, the county was wonderfully rough and workish. These days it is polite and Disney-fied.
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As a young boy growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was inspired by the nascent space age.
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Growing up, the only acts that came to us in Alaska were the big ones. The Mariah Careys.
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When I was growing up I spent a lot of time reading about ancient China and was really fascinated.
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The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats.
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My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.
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When I was a kid growing up in Cleveland, I believed - completely, wholeheartedly, without reservation or pause - that the Cleveland Indians were named to honor a Native American ballplayer named Louis Sockalexis, who played for Cleveland in the late 19th Century.
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Growing up, David Seaman was a massive role model for me. Peter Schmeichel and him were the ones I looked up to.
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When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.
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