#growing up

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

— Luke Wilson

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When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer. ↗

— Will Smith

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Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself. ↗

— John Sununu

#consider #doing #education #encouraged #end

Growing up in the acting world, you have a lot of opportunities to change who you are and what you believe in based on how people treat you. I never wanted to do that. ↗

— Josh Hutcherson

#based #believe #change #growing #growing up

Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention. ↗

— Jeremy London

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Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of today - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I had a terror of growing up, which became more and more accentuated as I grew older. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#become #children #eager #especially #grew

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger. ↗

— Gary Oldman

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I know, I'm like a kid. Maybe I was a bit too spoilt growing up. Everything just came like I wanted it to. ↗

— Asafa Powell

#came #everything #growing #growing up #i

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties. ↗

— Winona Ryder

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At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other. ↗

— James Tobin

#could #does #each #growing #growing up