- Idols
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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
- Bad Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a total bad girl growing up.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in Georgia, it was sort of the last place to jump on the bandwagon of the integrated frontier. I have aunts and uncles and grandparents that experienced the 'whites only' and segregated schools.
- Son
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of guys want a son because of all of the things they do while growing up. A lot of guys want to share those experiences with their own sons.
- Nov 07, 2020
I played all kinds of sports growing up: soccer, basketball, track. You name it, I've probably played it.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a computer in our garage when I was growing up, and I'd go out there in winter and wrap myself in a blanket and write a story.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up, David Bowie was my idol. I grew up in inner-city London, and he was from Brixton, which is even more urban.
- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a film maker who started on the Atari and then went onto the Commodore 64 and the Amiga. So I possibly have a different sensibility to people who didn't play games growing up.
- Big Fan
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- Nov 07, 2020