#growing up

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#ballet #fight #growing #growing up #had

The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#college #fosters #growing #growing up #had

Growing up in the business you have to grow up very fast - you do have a different type of childhood, that has its benefits and it has its drawbacks. ↗

— Jodi Sweetin

#business #childhood #different #drawbacks #fast

I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal. ↗

— Ice T

#go #got #growing #growing up #harden

I haven't had a lot of celebrities around me growing up. ↗

— Amber Tamblyn

#celebrities #growing #growing up #had #haven

It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn't! ↗

— Christine Taylor

#good #growing #growing up #i #inspiring

But I stuttered as a kid. I went to classes to help it, and it just went away around fourth grade, when I became more aware of how others spoke, I think. But also, growing up in the South, a mumble is a way of speaking. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#around #aware #away #became #classes

New York had a big influence on me growing up, and I was really part of the club scene - the Mudd Club and Studio 54. When you're living in New York, you are just bombarded with style, trying to figure out how to be cool and how to feel relaxed at the same time. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

#big influence #bombarded #club #club scene #cool

When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?' ↗

— Chuck Pagano

#assistants #being #coach #dad #ever

When my sister and I were growing up, she was made out to be the goody-goody one. ↗

— Princess Margaret

#growing up #i #made #out #she