4,004 Quotes About Growing-up

  • Author Michelle Rodriguez
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    Growing up in Jersey City was interesting. I got to learn a lot about different cultures: I had Hindu friends, Middle Eastern friends, black friends, Spanish friends.

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  • Author Michelle Ryan
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    The whole dream of having your own place is great, but the reality is having to cook and clean yourself and do the washing and make sure there's milk in the fridge. But you have to grow up some time.

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  • Author Mickey Rooney
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    The audience and I are friends. They allowed me to grow up with them. I've let them down several times. They've let me down several times. But we're all family.

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  • Author Monica Raymund
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    Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to figure out who I was in a primarily white school.

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  • Author Mordecai Richler
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    The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early.

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  • Author Ned Rorem
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    Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

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  • Author Naya Rivera
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    I definitely knew that I loved acting from the very beginning. I was such a ham growing up. Wherever the camera was, I wanted to be right in front of it.

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  • Author Nicole Richie
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    When you grow up in Bel Air and shop only in expensive boutiques on Rodeo and Robertson, you develop a kind of allergy to anything unpretty -clothes, cars... even people... you start thinking that if you hang around unattractive people, their homeliness can be contagious.

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