#growing up

I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

#big #blues #church #gospel #gospel music

Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre. ↗

— Christopher Eccleston

#expensive #feel #felt #go #growing

Because my parents, growing up, they worked hard. Everyone in my family woke up early in the morning. I used to see my mother and my father go off to work, and come back and, no matter what, they had time for the kids. ↗

— Herschel Walker

#because #come #early #everyone #family

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys. ↗

— Herschel Walker

#come #growing #growing up #had #i

I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you feel bad. And I had skinny bow legs. I mean, as a kid growing up, I was an insecure fella. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#bad #bow #feel #fella #growing

Growing up I didn't watch movies. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#growing up #i #movies #up #watch

As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother. ↗

— Prince William

#growing #growing up #i #learned #mess

The thing about being an actor is that you're in the business of not growing up. ↗

— Luke Wilson

#actor #being #business #growing #growing up

I was this weird misfit guy from suburban Seattle, I never really fit in, and then I became a drama geek, among all the other different kinds of geek that I was growing up, and I found I was pretty good at it. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

#became #different #different kinds #drama #fit

But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#anti-semitism #became #because #book #brother