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For people who grew up hunting, especially war veterans, shooting often settled the mind. It was something that required full concentration, and therefore took you away from your troubles, at least for a short time.
Taya Kyle
War
Time
You
People
Veterans
Mind
Settled
Took
Hunting
Something
Troubles
Concentration
Least
Up
Shooting
Often
Short
Grew
Short Time
Required
Your
Full
Who
Therefore
Away
I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
Taylor Cole
Love
Good
Travel
World
Enough
Would
Sport
Were
Up
Get
Grew
Golf
While
Professionally
Ever
Play
Playing
Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.
Taylor Dayne
People
Black
Think
Tool
Marketing
Totally
Also
Well
How
Up
Did
Influences
Grew
The records that I grew up listening to had feel, and the drummers that inspired me - like Stewart Copeland, Neil Peart, Phil Collins and Roger Taylor - all had their own voice and individual style.
Taylor Hawkins
Me
Listening
Style
Own
Neil
Collins
Voice
Records
Individual
Inspired
Had
Feel
Like
Drummers
Up
Roger
Grew
Taylor
Phil
Phil Collins
I have a bunch of brothers. I grew up with a big family.
Taylor Kinney
Family
Big
Brothers
Big Family
Up
Bunch
Grew
I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.
Taylor Lautner
Sports
Sense
Active
Hoops
Throwing
Football
Always
Been
Up
Friends
Shooting
Grew
Really
Playing
I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader.
Taylor Mali
Character
Thoughts
Commitment
Writing
Joy
Simple
Feelings
Says
Posted
About
More
Habit
Writer
Reader
Real
Up
Than
Grew
Notes
Stamped
Your
Expressing
Letters
Bring
Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.
Taylor Momsen
Kind
Yeah
Camera
Up
Modeling
Front
Grew
Started
Two
I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.
Taylor Spreitler
Life
Saying
Best
Home
Mom
People
Remember
My Life
Other
Way
Melissa
Joan
Hart
Best Friend
Give
Had
Mississippi
Surprised
His
Lot
Commencement
Friend
Up
Very
Than
Any
Any Other Way
Graduation
Grew
Much
Turning
Flew
Cooler
Hometown
Differently
Imagine
Speech
But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
Tea Leoni
You
Tell
See
New
Up
York
New York
Grew
Now
My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.
Ted Cruz
Generation
World
Teenager
Immigrants
Find
He
Cuba
Came
Lot
Up
Grew
Which
Themselves
Speaking
English
Dad
Second
Here
All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, which is religious, because I grew up in the jungle, the son of missionaries. I want to know, is God real? What's a priest's role?
Ted Dekker
God
Spiritual
Me
Son
Natural
Writing
Books
Out
Religious
Priest
Missionaries
Know
Most
Because
Real
Years
Years Ago
Up
Very
Jungle
Role
Want
Grew
Which
Many
Started
I grew up in California, and when I read that Proposition 8 was on the ballot, I was disappointed because it seemed to be inconsistent with the spirit of the state, with the independence and diversity of the frontier that California has always been.
Ted Olson
Independence
Diversity
State
Spirit
Seemed
Proposition
Disappointed
California
Read
Because
Always
Ballot
Been
Up
Frontier
Grew
Inconsistent
I've been strongly opposed to racial discrimination and anything like that my whole life. Maybe it's thanks to my parents and where I grew up and that sort of thing, but particularly with gay and lesbian citizens, I've seen that people can be cruel, and it's very distressing.
Ted Olson
Life
Gay
People
Seen
Parents
Thanks
Lesbian
Citizens
Distressing
Strongly
Cruel
Like
Particularly
Sort
Opposed
Been
Up
Very
Discrimination
Maybe
Where
Grew
Anything
Racial
Whole
Thing
I am much less autistic now, compared to when I was young. I remember some behaviors like picking carpet fuzz and watching spinning plates for hours. I didn't want to be touched. I couldn't shut out background noise. I didn't talk until I was about 4 years old. I screamed. I hummed. But as I grew up, I improved.
Temple Grandin
Noise
Remember
Old
Young
Background
Carpet
Out
Spinning
Some
About
Touched
Picking
Like
Hours
Talk
Until
Am
Years
Up
Improved
Behaviors
Autistic
Screamed
Want
Grew
Much
Less
Plates
Compared
Now
Shut
Watching
I obviously grew up on a court, but there wasn't any, 'All right, we're going to name him 'Tennis,' and he's going to be a professional.'
Tennys Sandgren
Tennis
He
Name
Obviously
Him
Court
Up
Any
Going
Grew
Professional
Right
I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.
Teresa Heinz
Dictatorship
East
Up
Africa
Grew
We grew up in a very demanding environment. Dad expects us to prove ourselves... so my siblings and I worked hard to reach what we have today, and I guess we have to continue working hard to maintain it.
Teresita Sy-Coson
Today
Demanding
Guess
Ourselves
Environment
Maintain
Reach
Prove
Continue
Up
Very
Expects
Grew
Us
Worked
Working
Working Hard
Hard
Dad
Sibling
When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.
Terry Bradshaw
Me
People
Thought
Sit
Down
Other
Other Countries
Corrected
Football
He
Countries
New
Him
Geography
New Mexico
Mexico
Up
Grew
Anyway
Brian
Cool
Agreed
Play
Play Football
I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.
Terry Gilliam
Country
Minnesota
Born
Dirt
Roads
Up
Woods
Grew
Lakes
I've done business with people I've met in politics, who I went to law school with, who I grew up with. Who do you do business with? People you meet in life.
Terry McAuliffe
Life
Politics
You
Business
People
Law
School
Met
Meet
Law School
Up
Done
Grew
Who
My voice is a combination of how I grew up and what I was listening to growing up. I like a lot of different kinds of music and am always being inspired in different ways by different artists for different reasons.
Tess Henley
Music
Listening
Different Kinds
Ways
Kinds
Voice
Inspired
Combination
Like
Always
How
Am
Lot
Up
Artists
Being
Different
Grew
Different Reasons
Reasons
Growing
Growing Up
Different Ways
I was so lucky. I grew up with an incredibly strong grandmother, mother and sister. All three, independent, fierce, clever women who were hard workers, had goals and visions for themselves, and were really ambitious. And, they didn't apologize for those goals.
Tessa Virtue
Women
Strong
Mother
Goals
Three
Clever
Sister
Incredibly
Those
Visions
Independent
Had
Were
Up
Ambitious
Grew
Fierce
Themselves
Grandmother
Really
Workers
Apologize
Hard
Who
Lucky
I grew up on the coast of England in the '70s. My dad is white from Cornwall, and my mom is black from Zimbabwe. Even the idea of us as a family was challenging to most people.
Thandie Newton
Mom
Family
People
Black
White
Cornwall
Idea
Most
Up
Grew
Us
Coast
England
Even
Dad
Challenging
Zimbabwe
I usually don't like to 'spoon feed' my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.
The Weeknd
Nature
Tell
Feed
Like
Spoon
Because
Audience
Up
Same
Grew
Stories
Story
Who
Using
Symbolism
There are huge misconceptions about people on benefits. They are labelled scroungers or cheats. The reality is that many who need that level of support are working, but their income is not enough to get out of debt or pay for basics like food and household bills. It's so close to the way I grew up.
Theo Paphitis
Food
Reality
People
Benefits
Pay
Enough
Way
Out
About
Misconceptions
Support
Cheats
Like
Household
Huge
Up
Debt
Labelled
Close
Get
Grew
Working
Who
Many
Bills
Income
Level
Basics
Need
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