#grew

As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#background #became #bigger #books #eventually

I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#emotions #forbidden #grew #home #i

I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going. ↗

— Gary Cole

#awe #going #grew #had #i

I grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was growing up were all flamboyant and obnoxious and sometimes kind of annoying. ↗

— Chris Colfer

#characters #conservative #flamboyant #gay #grew

I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier. ↗

— Toni Collette

#american television #been #does #easier #familiar

I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you've got to do now is sell about 10,000 singles and you're in the charts. ↗

— Phil Collins

#beatles #charts #day #got #grew

Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#drastically #economic #economic activity #entering #environment

The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I'd even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#american idol #antithesis #even #famous #got

I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks. ↗

— Dane Cook

#attacks #grew #had #i #panic

There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s and '60s and they bring their sons and their daughters to hear the songs they heard when they were young. ↗

— George Thorogood

#because #bring #coming #daughters #grandfathers