When I was fourteen years old, our family drove all the way from Vancouver to Newfoundland and back. I've been all across the great land of Canada. I absolutely love the Maritimes, and I'm very excited to go back, particularly in the fall when it's one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
‐‐ Aaron Douglas
When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.
‐‐ Jennifer Granholm
When I was getting my education, I fell in love with the writings of Peter Drucker. He was my hero. I had a naive belief that when I became a manager, it was going to be like Peter Drucker's books. That is, I was going to be the effective executive. I was going to talk to people about their goals. I was going to help them actualize.
‐‐ Guy Kawasaki
When I was getting ready for the release of 'Deadline,' when it was coming out soon, I decided that the appropriate way to get people excited about the book would be to write a novella in 30 pieces and publish a piece on my blog every day for a month... during a convention, a week-and-a-half-long trip to New York, and a doll traders' expo.
‐‐ Seanan McGuire
When I was given the opportunity to direct 'Senna,' I decided the film had to work for audiences who disliked sport or had never seen a Formula One race in their lives. It had to thrill and emotionally engage people who had never heard of Ayrton Senna.
‐‐ Asif Kapadia
When I was going away to school, I had a friend who took a liking to my family just a little too much. We couldn't get her out of the house. It took me saying to my parents, 'I don't want her here. I'm feeling replaced.'
‐‐ Nicole Holofcener
When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'
‐‐ Francis Ford Coppola
When I was going on auditions, it was nerve-racking. I'd always say to my mom that it would be awesome if I could get a series. When Modern Family came along, I said, 'You know what, Mom? I believe I'm going to get this role.'
‐‐ Rico Rodriguez
When I was going through my chemotherapy, I realized not many people are willing to talk about cancer, even after getting fully cured. Celebrities and educated people are also very protective and private about it. I still haven't understood why. I decided to fight my battle out in the public.
‐‐ Yuvraj Singh
When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.
‐‐ Park Chan-wook
When I was going to gay bars in my 20s and 30s, the older guys there explained to me that the police would occasionally raid these places and march the clients out, load them onto paddy wagons, drive them down to the station, photograph them, fingerprint them and put their names on a list. They were doing nothing wrong, and it was criminalized.
‐‐ George Takei
When I was going to Paris for Paris Fashion Week, I'd often walk down the street and go into all the different shops that we didn't necessarily have in the U.K., and Maje was definitely one of the ones that stood out for me.
‐‐ Alexa Chung
When I was going to school, I just wanted to be like everybody else. I would pull at my hair to try and get it to lie straight. America was where I would consume and absorb black culture, buy Ultra Sheen and watch 'Soul Train,' but I still had that weird in-between thing.
‐‐ Neneh Cherry
When I was going to school in, like, '84 to '88, you didn't have cell phones. There was no e-mail, if you can wrap your brain around that.
‐‐ Tina Fey
When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
‐‐ Lamar Alexander
When I was Governor of Massachusetts, we worked to get Sable Island gas into New England.
‐‐ Paul Cellucci
When I was grounded, I wouldn't be allowed to go on set. That's how much I loved it.
‐‐ Bryce Dallas Howard
When I was growing up, a lot of books affected me, but I never wrote letters to the author or anything like that. I'm always mindful that there are probably a whole bunch of people reading my books like that, too.
‐‐ Shaun Tan
When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound - Joy Division's 'Closer,' or Echo and the Bunnymen's 'Heaven Up Here'... I had a more intimate relationship with those records than I did with most of the people in my life.
‐‐ Moby
When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.
‐‐ Eddie Van Halen
When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.
‐‐ Sean Penn
When I was growing up and trying to get my foot on the ladder, I had the self-belief that my mother taught me, and it never occurred to me that anything could go wrong. I've learned life can't be like that.
‐‐ Diana Quick
When I was growing up and watching 'The Sweeney,' the notion of police officers being an inch away from the villains that they're chasing was commonplace.
‐‐ Lennie James
When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books.
‐‐ Paullina Simons
When I was growing up as a young lesbian in the '50s, I looked in vain for books about my people. I did find some paperbacks with lurid covers in the local bus station, but they ended with the gay character's committing suicide, dying in a car crash, being sent to a mental hospital, or 'turning' heterosexual.
‐‐ Nancy Garden
When I was growing up, Asians were so few and far between as to be almost invisible. And so the idea of an Asian American movement or an Asian American thrust in this country was unthinkable.
‐‐ Grace Lee Boggs
When I was growing up, Belfast City Hall was surrounded by security, and we had no access to it. But now, people come in and out of it all the time. On a nice day, office workers and students sit on the lawn outside and have lunch. It's great to see how Northern Ireland has changed. To be part of that is fantastic.
‐‐ James Nesbitt
When I was growing up, both my grandmothers would play the organ, and we would all sing.
‐‐ Janelle Monae
When I was growing up, Brandy was TV star, reality star, a pop star, a Cover girl, Grammy winner, had her own Brandy doll, and was the first African American to play Disney princess Cinderella. Most importantly, she is a survivor. Many only judge and remember a person's most recent failure.
‐‐ Niecy Nash
When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me.
‐‐ Tim Burton
When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and they talked about the war like it was the Kraken - you know, this huge beast that roamed the earth during their formative years.
‐‐ Tom Hanks
When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another one was half-Mexican, half-black. Another one was from Colombia. Another one was born in the U.S., but his mom was from Germany and spoke with a German accent. So we all had multiple identities.
‐‐ Dinaw Mengestu
When I was growing up, golf was the geeky sport. No one really wanted to be associated with it.
‐‐ Graham DeLaet
When I was growing up, Green Day had just come out.
‐‐ Deryck Whibley
When I was growing up, hand washing was a ritual, but now it's a necessity. A child dies every 15 seconds from preventable causes, which has got to stop.
‐‐ Kajol
When I was growing up, hip-hop was still a pretty specialised thing.
‐‐ Estelle
When I was growing up I actually was into Bon Jovi!
‐‐ Amy Ryan
When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.
‐‐ Sergey Brin
When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.
‐‐ Darius Rucker
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister became unmarried and pregnant during high school, and she kept saying, 'This wasn't supposed to happen! Why is this happening to me?' Someone should have given her another book to read.
‐‐ Dorothy Allison
When I was growing up, I always saw Karen Millen as a resource for women who were a bit older.
‐‐ Sophie Turner
When I was growing up, I always thought my hair was messy.
‐‐ Julia Louis-Dreyfus
When I was growing up I always wanted to be a waitress. My sister opened a restaurant in Mississippi, and I went down there and was a waitress for a few days. Let me tell you, I got it out of my system.
‐‐ Lacey Chabert
When I was growing up, I always wanted to be somebody else and live somewhere else. I've always felt a little uncomfortable around people.
‐‐ Donald Ray Pollock
When I was growing up, I cheered and danced and ran and stuff like that. I'm probably thinner now than I was in high school. I had a lot of muscle - a lot of muscle in high school.
‐‐ Ashley Greene
When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.
‐‐ Enya
When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of what came out of Britain and America. I was all set to abandon it entirely.
‐‐ Marian Keyes
When I was growing up, I did go to the arcade. We had a neighborhood arcade, and my friends and I would go fairly regularly.
‐‐ Gene Luen Yang
When I was growing up, I did not exercise at all. I was raised in the French Quarter in New Orleans. If I saw someone running, I would call the police because I thought they stole something on Royal Street.
‐‐ Richard Simmons
When I was growing up, I didn't know anything existed outside the borders of Buffalo.
‐‐ Cory Wells
When I was growing up I didn't know what it meant to be a happy, successful grown-up gay person, and now I do. I feel like I'm setting an example for people everywhere.
‐‐ Ross Mathews
When I was growing up, I didn't know who Jewish people were, what it was to be Jewish.
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia
When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.
‐‐ Martin Scorsese
When I was growing up, I don't think I knew any other child who had been out of Sri Lanka.
‐‐ Romesh Gunesekera
When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.
‐‐ Judy Blume
When I was growing up, I felt like I had to qualify it and say I'm British-Pakistani. But now I kind of feel like, in this day in age, this is what British looks like. It looks like me; it looks like Idris Elba, and hopefully through Nasir Khan, people will see that that's what an American can look like as well.
‐‐ Riz Ahmed
When I was growing up, I got a lot of, 'Oh, well, she bought the nicest horse, so of course she's going to win.' And I dealt with a lot of that.
‐‐ Georgina Bloomberg
When I was growing up, I just wanted to be somewhere else. I didn't like living in Knockemstiff, and I figured when I got older, I'd move off to some big city.
‐‐ Donald Ray Pollock
When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations.
‐‐ Bruce Feiler
When I was growing up, I lived in a neighborhood that was largely Latino and I thought I was Latino!
‐‐ Meagan Good
When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, or Harriet Tubman. No one ever wrote about plain, normal, everyday girls.
‐‐ Kathryn Lasky
When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.
‐‐ Nancy Willard
When I was growing up, I loved the films where you'd start them and the score might sound really odd at first and really different, and then by the time you finish, you can't imagine it being any other way.
‐‐ Steven Price
When I was growing up, I never felt that I belonged anywhere because we never lived in a house for more than three months. That's all I knew, and that's why I don't really belong anywhere.
‐‐ Peter Doig
When I was growing up, I never heard the word 'racism.' It was only in Paris I encountered that.
‐‐ Azzedine Alaia
When I was growing up, I never really knew my father. I didn't get to know my father until I was about 14 years old.
‐‐ Cole Hauser
When I was growing up, I read Britney Spears' and Mariah Carey's biographies. I just wanted to see how they did it because I was so eager to get into the biz.
‐‐ Pixie Lott
When I was growing up, I said I wanted to be a model, but people said I had no chance and when I realized my ambition, people in the business still continued to state negative stuff.
‐‐ Katie Price
When I was growing up, I said to my ex-girlfriend, 'I will not be successful until everyone in Holland knows my name.' And it worked.
‐‐ Afrojack
When I was growing up, I saw the Aaliyah shirts, the DMX shirts, or the collab shirts with DMX and Aaliyah when they had a single together. Those were the dope collage shirts with their faces all over it. They were doing cool things like that.
‐‐ ASAP Ferg
When I was growing up I spent a lot of time reading about ancient China and was really fascinated.
‐‐ John Fusco
When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.
‐‐ Russell Brand
When I was growing up, I used to watch 'Power Rangers' and 'Ninja Turtles.' It seemed like every movie had someone doing martial arts in it, so I would go around punching and kicking trees.
‐‐ Ashton Eaton
When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn't have parents.
‐‐ Angelina Jolie
When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when I went to work with him. I had a talent for knocking over paint and painting myself into corners. I also realized fairly quickly that painting bored me.
‐‐ Markus Zusak
When I was growing up, I wanted to be my half-sister Lucy. She was 14 years older than me and was impossibly glamorous. I grew up in awe of her.
‐‐ Emilia Fox
When I was growing up, I wanted to do Letterman and I loved that live, in-studio model. I still would do something like that.
‐‐ Scott Aukerman
When I was growing up, I was always on stage but I loved other things.
‐‐ Jeremy Piven
When I was growing up, I was an '80s baby, so I remember the Sega Genesis and the first Nintendo. I grew up in a time when we first started playing video games on a computer screen. Now there are headsets and your body's the controller.
‐‐ Mehcad Brooks
When I was growing up, I was eating fast food every day. I'd drink soda non-stop, candy, just everything. It was horrible. My go-to was McDonald's, for sure.
‐‐ Ryan Lochte
When I was growing up, I was lucky to benefit from a first class education.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon
When I was growing up, I was obsessed with 'Cagney and Lacey.'
‐‐ Tamsin Greig
When I was growing up, I was obviously gay, and I got heckled every day of my life. The only way I knew how to survive was to make people laugh. If I could make them laugh, I wouldn't get hung in a locker for two hours. That's a blessing.
‐‐ Carson Kressley
When I was growing up, I was really into 'Rent' and I actually slept on the street in New York all night to get to sit in the first few rows for it.
‐‐ Julia Jones
When I was growing up, I was so fascinated by Mel Blanc and all of the different voices that he did for 'Looney Tunes' and watching Robin Williams record voice-over for the genie in 'Aladdin.' It always seemed to be a major honor - something you have to earn. Like people trust you when they want to have you there without seeing you.
‐‐ Jenny Slate
When I was growing up, I was teased for being too skinny. I went to summer camp when I was 11. I wore shorts, and the nurse said to me, in front of all my friends, that I was anorexic and that she had to monitor me to make sure I was eating. Because of that trauma, I never wore short pants or short skirts until I was 20.
‐‐ Hani Furstenberg
When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music.
‐‐ Moby
When I was growing up, I was told I was stupid and that I would never achieve. I suffered from dyslexia, and in those days it wasn't recognised.
‐‐ Henry Winkler
When I was growing up, I wasn't an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood
When I was growing up, I wasn't taught how to feel or communicate feelings.
‐‐ Jeremy Renner
When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.
‐‐ Deepak Chopra
When I was growing up, if there was a Young Adult section of my town's library, I missed it. I wandered right from 'The Babysitter's Club' over to Stephen King. His books were big and fat and they seemed important. I eventually worked my way through most of the shelf, but 'It' is the one that stuck with me.
‐‐ Erin Morgenstern
When I was growing up in Chicago, my family and I used to go to a local chain, Hackney's, for burgers and their French fried onion loaf. I probably haven't been to one in 25 years, and yet, I once saw Donald Trump from behind in an office building and the first thing that flashed in my mind was his hair looked like that onion loaf.
‐‐ Jami Attenberg
When I was growing up in comedy, there were maybe 10 comics in the whole country. Everyone had a day job. You worked free for years in little clubs, then you got your big break and became a star.
‐‐ Elayne Boosler
When I was growing up in East Germay, everyone said there was no God. So I started looking for it myself.
‐‐ Nina Hagen
When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
‐‐ Zaha Hadid
When I was growing up in Israel, Cantorial music was something I heard over and over on the radio, so it wasn't at all strange to me. I was very familiar with the music.
‐‐ Itzhak Perlman
When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.
‐‐ Flea
When I was growing up in L.A. in the late '70s and early '80s, Michael Jackson's was the first face on TV that looked like mine.
‐‐ Shawn Amos
When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family; when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.
‐‐ Cat Cora