- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Up Quotes
Growing up, getting through, adding up.
This set of up quotes centers on growing up in a tough neighborhood and the resilience that experience builds over time. One entry treats that upbringing as proof of a law-abiding life that followed. Related themes continue in our Hope quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I do will be straight up. Management knows that.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Respectable transwomen were not as visible and very unclear in how they defined themselves. I had no one to look up to, pre-transition.
- Grown
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I've grown up easily.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the opportunity presented itself, I had never been bar mitzvahed. I wasn't going to pass it up.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.
- Before
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
- Conditioned
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're going to get all cut up in a movie.
- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a household listening to hip-hop music.
- Convinced
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be.
- Dairy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up on a dairy and beef farm.
- Idols
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rachel Bilson, Nicole Richie, Vanessa Hudgens... so many of my idols growing up were Bongo girls.
- Phone
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- Nov 07, 2020