#grew

At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#actress #asked #course #early #everyone

John Legend is a nickname that some friends started calling me, and it kind of grew into my stage name. ↗

— John Legend

#friends #grew #into #john #kind

Teenagers especially are very, very conscious about what is hip and what is lame and what is square and what is out and what is in, you know. And, I mean, I grew up right there in the middle of a black culture. And I knew dead-on what it was. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#black #conscious #culture #especially #grew

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#artist #artists #connects #example #father

I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest. ↗

— James Levine

#era #grew #i #like #orchestra

My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family. ↗

— Philip Levine

#family #father #five #grew #i

We didn't have a beauty shop as I grew up. ↗

— Jenifer Lewis

#grew #i #shop #up

I've got Pacman, Galaga, Galaxian, Daytona 500. Those are the games I grew up playing. ↗

— Ray Lewis

#daytona 500 #games #got #grew #i

It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to. ↗

— Hamish Linklater

#feels #figure #get #grew #home

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress. ↗

— Laura Linney

#ever #father #grew #i #manhattan