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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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So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.
- Our
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The kitchen was the center of our household. I spent all of my time there growing up.
- Only
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When I was growing up, I never heard the word 'racism.' It was only in Paris I encountered that.
- Down
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I always just sit down at the piano and make the main hook - what I want the track to be about melodically - and then I'll build everything else around that. But growing up, I did not play any instruments.
- Pride
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When I was growing up, 'Ebony Magazine' was a must read in our household. In those pages I found our news, our stories, and my pride.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since I was growing up, I knew I was going to play in the NFL. I never thought anything else.
- Me
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Growing up, my dad took me to the opera.
- Girlfriend
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Growing up near Scarsdale, I should have had at least one Jewish girlfriend. Maybe at some point it'll happen.
- Nov 07, 2020