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'Cars' is a really personal story for me because, first of all, I grew up in Los Angeles - the car crazy capital.
John Lasseter
Me
Crazy
Car
First
Angeles
First Of All
Because
Los
Los Angeles
Up
Personal
Grew
Story
Personal Story
Capital
Really
I grew up a big fan of the J. R. Ewing character of the 'Dallas' TV show, and I grew up around people who were very similar to J. R.: they had come into a ton of money. And they loved to flaunt it and loved to drive fancy cars and wear the big cowboy hats and nice suits.
John Layfield
Character
People
Money
Suits
Car
Drive
Big
Nice
TV
TV Show
Wear
Hats
Similar
Had
Come
Around
Were
Big Fan
Cowboy
Up
Very
Fan
Grew
Loved
Fancy
Show
Who
Ton
Dallas
I grew up a huge wrestling fan. My grandfather, who was a minister and retired when I was a young kid in Sweetwater, Texas, lived right near us. He was a big wrestling fan.
John Layfield
Big
Young
Kid
Minister
Wrestling
He
Retired
Texas
Huge
Up
Fan
Grew
Young Kid
Grandfather
Us
Who
Lived
Near
Right
I grew up in Texas City, Texas. I didn't know anybody who was a director or whose parents or grandparents were directors. I met somebody from a nearby town one time whose father had been to the moon - it was far more likely to be an astronaut than it was to be a writer or a director.
John Lee Hancock
Time
Director
Father
Moon
Somebody
Parents
Met
Astronaut
One Time
City
More
Directors
Writer
Had
Town
Know
Likely
Were
Been
Texas
Up
Than
Anybody
Grew
To The Moon
Far
Grandparents
Who
Whose
Nearby
I grew up very poor in rural Alabama.
John Lewis
Rural
Up
Very
Grew
Poor
Alabama
I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.
John Lone
Art
Age
Innocent
Sense
Ten
No Sense
Identity
Up
Grew
I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.
John Lone
Mother
Will
Think
Way
Insecure
Never
Primal
Hand
Up
Forever
Grew
Why
I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with.
John Lydon
Life
Funny
Country
Clever
Increase
Percent
Percent Increase
Classy
Ads
Like
Proud
Were
Sales
Up
Very
Grew
Them
Butter
Right
I grew up on the south side of Chicago in the 1960s, and I think there was a synchronicity of events that inspired me to be an astronaut, and, of course, the backdrop is nothing less than Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. That was a time in our nation where we aspired to great things, and we achieved them.
John M. Grunsfeld
Time
Great
Me
Events
Great Things
Gemini
Nation
Nothing
Think
Side
Our
Backdrop
Astronaut
Inspired
Mercury
Course
South
Chicago
Up
South Side
Than
Achieved
Where
Grew
Them
Apollo
Aspired
Less
Things
When I grew up as a kid, we didn't know there were any other planets outside of our own solar system. It was widely speculated that planet formation was an incredibly rare event and that it's possible that other planets just don't exist in our galaxy, and it's just this special situation where we happen to have planets around our sun.
John M. Grunsfeld
Solar
Rare
Own
Situation
Other
Incredibly
Our
Solar System
Kid
Sun
System
Possible
Outside
Know
Around
Were
Exist
Up
Any
Just
Where
Grew
Happen
Formation
Galaxy
Planet
Planets
Special
Event
Widely
I grew up in the Midwest, quite far from any ocean or any beach, a million miles. I think for kids who grew up where I did, the idea of California, surfing and beach life was so exotic and glamorous.
John Malkovich
Life
Ocean
Think
Kids
Beach
Glamorous
Idea
California
Surfing
Up
Exotic
Did
Any
Quite
Where
Grew
Midwest
Far
Miles
Who
Million
I don't really know why I started playing as a kid, but I grew up in Queens, New York, not too far from Forest Hills, where they played the U.S. Open in those days. I even got to be a ball boy there. Also, there was a tennis court just a block away from our house, and I'd hang out down there.
John McEnroe
Down
Too
Our
Kid
Those
Out
Open
Tennis
Tennis Court
New
Days
Know
House
Also
Hills
Court
Ball
Boy
Got
Block
Queens
Up
Forest
York
Hang
Just
New York
Where
Grew
Far
Really
Even
Why
Away
Played
Started
Playing
When I grew up, my dad listened to all that stuff - Neil Young. Floyd. The Doors. The Beatles. Stones. So even now, to this day, it's the music I listen to a lot of the time.
John Morrison
Music
Time
Day
Beatles
Young
Doors
Neil
Neil Young
Stuff
Lot
Up
Stones
Listen
Listened
The Doors
Grew
Even
Even Now
Dad
Now
Floyd
I grew up in a council house in a poor Scottish town. I came of age during the recession of the mid-1980s when unemployment in my area reached 40 per cent.
John Niven
Age
Recession
Per
Area
Council
Town
Reached
House
Came
Up
Scottish
Unemployment
Grew
Cent
Poor
I'm Irish as hell: Kelly on one side, Shanley on the other. My father had been born on a farm in the Irish Midlands. He and his brothers had been shepherds there, cattle and sheep, back in the early 1920s. I grew up surrounded by brogues and Irish music, but stayed away from the old country till I was over 40. I just couldn't own being Irish.
John Patrick Shanley
Music
Old
Father
Country
Sheep
Own
Hell
Farm
Other
Side
Back
Stayed
Born
Brothers
Had
He
Over
Cattle
Till
Shepherds
Been
His
Surrounded
Up
Irish
Just
Being
Grew
Old Country
Away
Kelly
Early
I grew up in a family of piano players. Both my sisters were serious players, and they both, as they became more accomplished, aspired to buy a Steinway and asked my dad to buy a Steinway.
John Paulson
Buy
Family
More
Both
Piano
Became
Were
Accomplished
Up
Sisters
Grew
Asked
Aspired
Serious
Dad
Players
I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.
John Ratzenberger
Character
Someone
Cliff
Up
Improvising
Grew
Based
Started
I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there.
John Ratzenberger
Come
Up
Friends
Grew
Connecticut
I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know about style I learned from Roberto Clemente.
John Sayles
Thought
Style
About
Something
Writer
Never
Know
Most
Roberto
Learned
Up
Being
Wanted
Grew
I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.
John Sayles
Time
Me
You
Book
People
Sit
Down
Medium
Books
Television
Seeing
More
Write
Read
Came
Hire
Lot
Up
Itself
Than
Grew
Story-Telling
Available
Movies
Certainly
Thing
I grew up in a two-bedroom house with my grandfather, my mom and dad and four kids. I slept on the couch or on the floor, and I always wanted to have my own space.
John Searles
Mom
Space
Own
Slept
Kids
My Own
Couch
House
Always
Up
Wanted
Grew
Grandfather
Mom And Dad
Dad
Floor
Four
I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio.
John Tesh
Death
Me
Physics
Parents
Chemistry
Starve
Musician
Would
Put
Blew
Sure
Got
Were
Up
Grew
Wanting
Radio
Eventually
I grew up with the Woodstock generation. I went to Woodstock, and like everybody in my school, I wanted to be in a rock-and-roll band, and most of us were. But I also grew up with a lot of piano lessons and a lot of classical music training.
John Tesh
Music
Generation
Training
School
Band
Everybody
Classical
Classical Music
Piano
Piano Lessons
Like
Most
Also
Were
Lot
Up
Wanted
Grew
Woodstock
Us
Lessons
I think basketball harnessed and built my toughness and competitiveness. I grew up in a tough neighborhood, and you were either going to cry and moan about it or get tough.
John Wall
You
Tough
Think
Neighborhood
About
Toughness
Cry
Built
Were
Moan
Up
Get
Going
Grew
Either
Competitiveness
Basketball
I grew up in Baltimore, which is, you know, a city of extremes certainly, but my parents were very conservative. But they made me feel safe, and even though they were mortified at what I was doing, they encouraged it. I think because they thought, what else could I do?
John Waters
Me
You
Conservative
Thought
Made
Parents
Think
Else
Extremes
Though
City
Could
Feel
Mortified
Know
Safe
Because
Doing
Were
Encouraged
Baltimore
Up
Very
Grew
Which
Certainly
Even
I went through different looks. At one period, I was preppy because that's how I grew up. But then I had bleached hair in the front. And I used to wear - then I wanted to be a beatnik. It was hard to be a beatnik in suburban Baltimore. But I wanted to be one.
John Waters
Hair
Wear
Through
Beatnik
Had
Period
Looks
Because
How
Baltimore
Up
Front
Different
Wanted
Grew
Suburban
Then
Used
Hard
Preppy
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