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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
- Elicit
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are embracing the thing that made them different growing up instead of letting that thing elicit shame.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up as a product of the black civil-rights movement, I had a lot of different models for black weirdness, whether it's Richard Pryor or James Baldwin or Jimmy Walker.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up.
- Pilot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I wanted to be a pilot!
- Quiet
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up, I wasn't an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.
- Farm
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up in north-west London, our milkman's cart was pulled by a horse, and cattle still grazed on the meadows near Church Farm.
- Idols
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, Karuna Shinsho on CNN was one of my idols, so I wanted to become either an anchorwoman or an international lawyer.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like health-conscious cooking, but growing up in the South, I do love southern cooking; southern France, southern Italy, southern Spain. I love southern cooking.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ate cottage cheese all the time growing up, but it wasn't until I was in college that I became aware of the stigma surrounding it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I didn't have any role models that were sick that were doing anything with their life, ever.
- Hill
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I listened to a lot of Queen and Lauryn Hill because of my dad. Those are songs that have messages.
- Nov 07, 2020