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• Growing up in college, in high school, I was the focal point.

  James Harden

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• I think I’ve always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was ‘your’ boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get ‘you.’

  Mohsin Hamid

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• You want to know what makes me tick, I’ll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called ‘The Hawk’s Nest.’ Nobody entered that nest that didn’t leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, ‘Isn’t that a wonderful thing.’ And that’s all there is to it.

  Buddy Hackett

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  Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.

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  Tags in Growing, Standing

• One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing.

  Chesley Sullenberger

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• Growing up, one of my cousins was an out gay man.

  Eric Stonestreet

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• The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.

  Maggie Stiefvater

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• Jingle taps on the majorette boots were an important part of a little girl growing up in the South.

  Sissy Spacek

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• Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.

  Ali Smith

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• I was at the tail end of the family. The next brother along was already seven years older than me. I remember growing up by myself, playing games by myself.

  Ali Smith

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• I mean I have a project that I have been wanting to make for quite a while now; and basically, it’s a story of my parents growing up in the Lower East Side.

  Martin Scorsese

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• Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.

  David Sanborn

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• I was the one in charge of the kids growing up.

  Robert Rodriguez

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• I started growing my hair in December ’89. I was seventeen. I signed my record deal and said I ain’t combing my hair no more. I don’t have too.

  Busta Rhymes Jr.

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• We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.

  Buenaventura Durruti

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• There is a lot of learning I have to do and a lot of growing up I have to do.

  Bubba Watson

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• L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who.

  Bruce McCulloch

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• I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.

  Andy Serkis

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• There are things about growing up in a small town that you can’t necessarily quantify.

  Brandon Routh

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  Life is not about growing old. It’s about growing up.

  Pearl Bailey

  Topics in Age, Life

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