I grew up in a wonderful blend of a lot of old culture.
‐‐ Kenny Ortega
I grew up in a wood cabin on Puget Sound in Manchester, Wash. My family taught me to appreciate the arts and the outdoors, and I still yearn for the absolute silence I experienced there when I was young.
‐‐ Steven Holl
I grew up in a working-class Catholic family in south Louisiana. I went to a state university. I taught literature, wrote a novel that was the novel I wanted to write, and got a couple of good reviews but no real traction. I had no idea how to get a job in TV.
‐‐ Nic Pizzolatto
I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
‐‐ Andrea Arnold
I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.
‐‐ Hanna Rosin
I grew up in a working class neighborhood in Sweden, which, during my teens, gentrified and is now completely middle class and even upper middle class.
‐‐ Joel Kinnaman
I grew up in a working-class neighborhood, so there was always a sense of struggle, but we had hope.
‐‐ Bonnie Hunt
I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.
‐‐ Joan Jett
I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families.
‐‐ Richard Flanagan
I grew up in a world where the majority of people were black, so that wasn't the defining quality of anyone. When you're describing someone, you don't start out with 'he's black, he's white.'
‐‐ Lupita Nyong'o
I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.
‐‐ Tony Judt
I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at mathematics, so I became an academic and got my Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. I didn't set out to be a businessperson.
‐‐ Rodney Brooks
I grew up in Africa, in Nigeria. I never knew, I never had any reasonable encounter with football. I saw football on Sky News. I thought there were people dressed like extraterrestrials, you know, like they were going to Mars or something, headgears and shoulder pads. And I wondered why, as a child, why did they have to dress that way.
‐‐ Bennet Omalu
I grew up in Africa surrounded by a lot of culture. It's made me aware that the world is a big place.
‐‐ Jann Klose
I grew up in airports and on air bases. I know what flying and airports can be. And most airports make me feel like we're about three per cent better than ants. Especially U.S. airports. They're zoos. All civility is gone.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland
I grew up in Alabama in a very small town and didn't have access to the finest of anything, really. But my mother was the kind of woman who just wanted us, me and my sisters, to be exposed to any and anything she could find.
‐‐ Andre Holland
I grew up in Alice, Texas, a small oil town with one theater that only showed Roy Rogers movies. So when I got the role, I had never even seen a Bond film and had only had a vague notion about the idea of a Bond girl.
‐‐ Lois Chiles
I grew up in Alsace - in Strasbourg, by the canal; the family business was coal handling. It was still in the days when three generations would live under the same roof. There were 15 people for lunch, 20 for dinner.
‐‐ Jean-Georges Vongerichten
I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.
‐‐ Janice Dickinson
I grew up in an acting family. I was heavily discouraged from doing it myself when I was young, which is the only responsible route to take with any child, because it's not necessarily the easiest of lives.
‐‐ Jack Davenport
I grew up in an affluent suburban world and never worried about money until I'd grown up and found wonderfully original ways to screw up my life.
‐‐ K. A. Applegate
I grew up in an age where women's tennis did not have similar prizes to men, and they played in complete obscurity, really, compared to the men's game.
‐‐ David Stern
I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.
‐‐ Laura Z. Hobson
I grew up in an agricultural family, and I never distanced myself from where the food comes from. I think it's quite natural.
‐‐ Jim Harrison
I grew up in an all-black neighbourhood in Decatur, Georgia - a kinda lower-middle-class area.
‐‐ Keri Hilson
I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in part, by disparaging men and feeling superior to them.
‐‐ Kate Christensen
I grew up in an all-white community.
‐‐ Gayle King
I grew up in an apartment that would have made a trailer look really decadent and nice. Pretty much the only dependable thing I had was books.
‐‐ Seanan McGuire
I grew up in an apolitical household. I never left the country. When I became an adult, I started traveling and became interested in politics, and I probably talked about things in a silly, ignorant way.
‐‐ Jesse Eisenberg
I grew up in an area of Ireland where there weren't many black or mixed-race children. But I never had any hassle; maybe I've blocked it out, but I don't think so.
‐‐ Ruth Negga
I grew up in an artists' community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art.
‐‐ Vin Diesel
I grew up in an average middle-class family. I don't think I even knew any friends who were fostered or adopted.
‐‐ Sherri Saum
I grew up in an eclectic house where people were listening to all types of different music. I also think being educated, eloquent and knowing how to talk for yourself in the industry makes you go a long way.
‐‐ Tinie Tempah
I grew up in an environment in Birmingham that was really multicultural, with black kids, Irish kids, Indian kids.
‐‐ David Harewood
I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.
‐‐ Allan Sloan
I grew up in an environment with virtually no Hispanics where you see only people in your culture in custodial jobs. I had a messed up image of what we bring to this nation. My father was known as a pioneering figure in Cuban music, but I still associated him with everything that was negative in my neighborhood. I could not have been more mistaken.
‐‐ Arturo O'Farrill
I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.
‐‐ Paul Theroux
I grew up in an era when money was not readily available. We were into the post-Depression years and World War II.
‐‐ Charles Schwab
I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest.
‐‐ James Levine
I grew up in an era where the record companies just sold records to everybody, and the whole family bought songs.
‐‐ Tony Bennett
I grew up in an era where you had to find your own way as a woman. When I was a kid, there was this whole physical and emotional neatness and purity that a woman was supposed to have, and I didn't fit into that.
‐‐ Patti Scialfa
I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you're going to have to work twice as hard.
‐‐ Lin-Manuel Miranda
I grew up in an inner city neighborhood called the Benson Hurst section of Brooklyn, which was a very embracing, warm, family-type neighborhood.
‐‐ Anthony Fauci
I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie.
‐‐ Jimmy Fallon
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
‐‐ Bill Walton
I grew up in an underprivileged home.
‐‐ Chris Kirkpatrick
I grew up in an upper-middle-class town with a population around 12,000. My high school held around a thousand kids. All smart. We had a strict dress code. If you wore blue jeans to school, they sent you home.
‐‐ Jeffrey Gitomer
I grew up in Ann Arbor, about 25 miles west of Detroit. And when you grow up in that area, you get a healthy dose of Motown automatically.
‐‐ Mayer Hawthorne
I grew up in Arizona and have a lot of buddies that are cowpokes.
‐‐ Michael Biehn
I grew up in Arizona, but I moved to L.A. when I was 18 to model. I was doing work for American Apparel and then got cast in the Yeezus tour. Vanessa Beecroft did the creative direction, and they hired three American Apparel models and nine dancers - it wasn't a lot of dancing; we were mostly just walking.
‐‐ Kacy Hill