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I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.
V. S. Naipaul
World
Young
Entered
Small
Left
Up
Quite
Grew
Bigger
Place
I did everything to get food. I have stolen for food. I have jumped in huge garbage bins with maggots for food. I have befriended people in the neighborhood who I knew had mothers who cooked three meals a day for food, and I sacrificed a childhood for food and grew up in immense shame.
Viola Davis
Food
Day
People
Three
Garbage
Everything
Immense
Neighborhood
Shame
Sacrificed
Had
Knew
Mothers
Huge
Up
Get
Did
Stolen
Childhood
Grew
Meals
Cooked
Who
My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.
Wayne Dyer
Time
Age
Money
Father
Big
Nine
Everywhere
Abandoned
Responsibilities
More
Stealing
Disappeared
Occasion
Issue
His
Years
Up
Than
Just
Jailed
Grew
Working
Who
Lived
I grew up in Austria, and for me real comfort food is Wiener Schnitzel. Wiener Schnitzel and mashed potatoes because it reminds me of my youth... It reminds me when I grow up and it feels very comforting.
Wolfgang Puck
Food
Me
Youth
Comforting
Potatoes
Mashed Potatoes
Reminds
Feels
Comfort
Comfort Food
Because
Real
Up
Very
Austria
Grew
Grow
Grow Up
The history taught in our schools is scandalous. We grew up believing that Columbus actually discovered America. We still celebrate Columbus Day. Columbus was after one thing only - gold.
Woody Harrelson
Day
History
Celebrate
Our
Scandalous
One Thing
Only
Columbus
Schools
Still
Discovered
Up
America
Taught
Gold
Grew
After
Believing
Actually
Thing
I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.
Yuna
Life
Best
You
Please Everyone
Just Be
Live
Everyone
Please
Way
Best Way
Cliche
Sounds
Up
Trying
Just
Grew
Realized
Your
Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.
Maya Angelou
Me
Man
Rude
Out
Tell
Would
Be A Man
Charles
Charles Dickens
Could
Arkansas
Town
Talk
Were
South
Impressed
Dickens
Up
Curse
Grew
Little
Mean
Really
Whites
Who
Village
Early
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
Bill Gates
Dreams
Great
Great Deal
Think
I Think
Kid
Out
Fact
Had
Read
Deal
Lot
Grew
Really
Chance
Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.
A. J. McLean
Gay
Business
Women
Men
Thinking
Back
Musical
Musical Theater
Since
Around
Been
Surrounded
Up
Anyone
Grew
Theater
Straight
Hardly
Raised
My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past.
A. R. Rahman
Death
Family
Religion
Spiritual
Change
Mother
Decision
Father
Stronger
Past
Changed
Took
Our
Our Lives
Following
Through
Instantaneous
Like
Healers
Saint
Years
Patch
Grew
After
Convert
Converted
Us
Washing
Rough
Belief
Away
Lives
Sufi
I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
A. R. Rahman
Music
Time
Quality
Listening
Difficult
Bach
Constantly
Composers
Classical
More
Stuff
Since
Name
Quality Time
Doing
Beethoven
Up
Modern
Listen
Grew
Who
Even
Now
I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
A. S. Byatt
Generation
Women
Mother
Feeling
Motherhood
Think
Complete
Minds
Books
Kitchen
Daughters
Never
Idea
Up
Very
Afraid
Where
Grew
Anything
Fictive
I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.
A. S. Byatt
Love
Time
Religion
History
Science
Yourself
Mind
Too Much
Living
Think
Too
Philosophy
About
Suppose
Most
Terribly
Sort
Because
Up
Personal
Grew
Literature
Much
Highbridge - everybody rap in Highbridge; everyone grew up rappin' or playing basketball.
A Boogie wit da Hoodie
Everybody
Everyone
Rap
Up
Grew
Playing
Basketball
I grew up in Haifa and enjoyed the wonderful beaches and Mount Carmel that rolls into the Mediterranean Sea. From my early days at home, I remember a strong encouragement to study.
Aaron Ciechanover
Home
Wonderful
Strong
Remember
Encouragement
Mediterranean
Beaches
Study
Days
Up
Mount
Rolls
Grew
Sea
Enjoyed
Early
Early Days
I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.
Aaron Koblin
Time
Robot
Static
Drawings
Seemed
Inspired
Idea
Between
Like
Terms
Felt
Were
Up
Intense
Same
Same Time
Grew
Engaged
Fun
Paintings
Play
Things
Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.
Aaron Neville
Teacher
Music
Day
Me
Man
Every Day
School
Thought
Somebody
Singing
Every
Add
Guess
Nurtured
Something
Beating
Had
True
Like
Because
Am
Grew
Who
Even
I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.
Aaron Paul
Born
Small
Small Town
Idaho
Over
Town
Up
Very
Grew
I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
Aaron Sorkin
Theatre
Writing
Drama
Television
About
Perfection
Beyond
Got
Dialogue
Up
Where
Grew
Theatrical
Start
Only recently have I been introduced to the gym and heavy weightlifting and things like that. Before that, when I grew up, I just did a lot of gymnastics and dance. I had more of an athletic background, but nothing where I was in the gym or using any kind of weights.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Dance
Before
Nothing
Background
Kind
Introduced
Athletic
Gym
More
Only
Gymnastics
Had
Weights
Like
Been
Lot
Up
Did
Any
Just
Where
Heavy
Grew
Using
Things
Recently
I haven't got any friends from where I grew up, but that's not to do with fame.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Got
Fame
Up
Friends
Any
Where
Grew
I was born in Mumbai, but I grew up in England, and then my adulthood has been in the States. I'm an American stuffed with an English person with an Indian person inside. I feel like those things kind of inform me in some way, which I think helps me as an actor.
Aasif Mandvi
Me
Think
Way
States
Those
Has-Been
Kind
Indian
Inside
Some
Born
Adulthood
Feel
Stuffed
Like
Been
Up
Person
American
Grew
Inform
Which
Then
England
English
Helps
Actor
Mumbai
Things
I didn't actually know what a vegetarian was until I was 13 years old. I know in this day and age it's hard to believe that, but I think because I grew up on a farm, I wasn't indulged in magazines, newspapers, Internet, television. And so, for some reason, I was never exposed to what a vegetarian was.
Abbie Cornish
Day
Age
Old
Internet
Farm
Believe
Think
Television
Some
Magazines
Never
Vegetarian
Day And Age
Know
Until
Because
Years
Up
Grew
Newspapers
Hard
Reason
Exposed
Actually
I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
Abel Ferrara
Time
Creative
Guitar
Big
Bat
Go
Camera
Up
Grew
Which
Baseball
Film
Stretch
I grew up in a small Southern town, kind of a counterculture to a small Southern mentality.
Abigail Spencer
Kind
Small
Mentality
Town
Up
Southern
Grew
The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.
Adam Baldwin
Words
Heroes
Men
Few
Action
Cinematic
Eastwood
Guys
Always
Been
Clint
Clint Eastwood
Up
Grew
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