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I write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant. Not: 'This is Dominican food. This is a Spanish word.' I trust my readers, even non-Spanish ones.
Junot Diaz
Food
Trust
Book
People
Word
Took
Extreme
Write
For The People
Readers
Up
Native
Grew
Spanish
Pains
Even
I grew up reading Updike. I remember being alarmed to find that he had published short stories by the time he was 22. I think 'Pigeon Feathers' was the first collection of stories I read. Only much later did I discover his non-fiction reviewing and art criticism.
Justin Cartwright
Art
Time
Feathers
Remember
Criticism
First
Reading
Think
Later
Collection
Find
Only
Had
He
Pigeon
Read
Non-Fiction
Discover
His
Reviewing
Up
Did
Short
Being
Grew
Stories
Short Stories
Much
Published
By The Time
I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse.
Justin Cronin
War
Berlin Wall
Fall
Cold
Cold War
Everything
Berlin
Vivid
Seemed
Had
Until
Years
Up
Very
Wall
Grew
Apocalypse
Many
Nuclear
Right
Nightmares
And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.
Justin Cronin
Science
Steady
Science Fiction
Up
Diet
Fiction
Grew
I grew up going on vacations with my family to New York every summer, and it's something that I always looked forward to. They'd take me to theater and shows and interesting restaurants, so I was genuinely really excited to move there.
Justin Peck
Family
Me
Every
Summer
Restaurants
Something
Take
Excited
New
Looked
Genuinely
Always
Up
York
Going
Move
New York
Grew
Theater
Interesting
Really
Forward
Shows
Vacations
I grew up with a cabin so we'd always go out and hunt and fish and all that good stuff. All of the cliche Southern things one would imagine.
Justin Prentice
Good
Hunt
Out
Would
Cabin
Stuff
Cliche
Always
Fish
Go
Up
Southern
Grew
Things
Imagine
I guess, for me, I've always thought that there was humor everywhere. And as a kid, I just, you know, I grew up an only child, and I - sort of nothing made me happier than to make my parents laugh. I remember I had costumes and things laying around the house that I was, you know, anything that I could do to make my parents laugh.
Justin Timberlake
Me
You
Remember
Humor
Thought
Made
Parents
Nothing
Guess
Everywhere
Kid
Laugh
Only
Only Child
Costumes
Laying
Could
Had
Know
House
Make
Sort
Around
Always
Up
Than
Child
Just
Grew
Anything
Happier
Things
I think I have to laugh about the fact that I grew up in public. All these weird stages in my teenage years are documented. Why did no one tell me how terrible some of those outfits were?
Justin Timberlake
Me
Think
Teenage
Teenage Years
Those
Laugh
Tell
Outfits
Some
About
Fact
No-One
Weird
Terrible
Documented
How
Were
Years
Up
Did
Grew
Stages
Public
Why
I've always been a fan of the Dark and Lovely brand. I grew up using their products at home. I only work with brands I believe in, and I'm so happy to be a hair color ambassador.
Justine Skye
Work
Home
Happy
Dark
Hair
Believe
Only
Color
Hair Color
Always
Been
Ambassador
Up
Brand
Brands
Fan
Grew
Lovely
Products
Using
When it comes to '90s R&B, I grew up on a lot of Aaliyah and Destiny's Child, Missy Elliott, Usher, Jill Scott. Whatever my mom was playing in the house is what I was listening to.
Justine Skye
Mom
Listening
Whatever
Destiny
House
Lot
Up
Scott
Child
Grew
Usher
Playing
I grew up with a menagerie of dogs, cats, gerbils - not to mention three younger siblings.
K. A. Applegate
Cats
Three
Mention
Dogs
Up
Grew
Younger
Sibling
I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.
K. D. Lang
Music
You
Listening
Singing
Say
Kids
Classical
Could
Piano
Studied
Since
Conception
Been
Up
Five
Grew
Youngest
Moment
Who
Ever
Four
Started
Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I've always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers.
Kacey Musgraves
Kid
East
Like
Looked
Always
Traditional
Dolly Parton
Lee
Lot
Texas
Western
Up
Rogers
Where
Grew
Sang
Swing
Near
Her
Roy
I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.
Kacy Catanzaro
Discipline
Sacrifice
Eating
Gymnastics
Pros
Outweigh
Doing
Lots
Up
Getting
Grew
Requires
Right
Sleep
I grew up in Arizona, but I moved to L.A. when I was 18 to model. I was doing work for American Apparel and then got cast in the Yeezus tour. Vanessa Beecroft did the creative direction, and they hired three American Apparel models and nine dancers - it wasn't a lot of dancing; we were mostly just walking.
Kacy Hill
Work
Creative
Three
Nine
Dancers
Dancing
Direction
Cast
Tour
Arizona
Mostly
Got
Doing
Hired
Were
Lot
Up
Walking
Model
American
Did
Models
Just
Moved
Grew
Just Walking
Then
Apparel
I grew up with the Bible education, and my values come from there.
Kaka
Education
Bible
Values
Come
Up
Grew
I grew up with 'Friends' from day one and, like, 'Seinfeld' and 'Frazier,' those sorts of shows, but for sure, 'Friends' was it for our family. Like, we would watch every Thursday night at eight o'clock; I couldn't wait.
Kaley Cuoco
Day
Family
Wait
Every
Our
Those
Would
Frazier
Seinfeld
Day One
Thursday
Like
Sort
Sure
Up
Friends
Eight
Grew
Shows
Watch
Night
My mom grew up with horses, and when I turned 14, 15, she's like, 'Do you want to take a riding lesson?' I thought, 'Oh, gross, dirty.' She was like, 'Okay.' And then I did, and now I'm the one cleaning those damn stalls out. You can't get me away from the barn now. It shocks even me.
Kaley Cuoco
Mom
Me
You
Cleaning
Thought
Lesson
Damn
Those
Okay
Out
Dirty
Horses
Take
Like
She
Up
Shocks
Get
Did
Oh
Want
Grew
Turned
Then
Gross
Barn
Even
Riding
Now
Away
I grew up hearing stories about my grandmother - my mother's mother - who used to go to villages in India in her little VW bug. My grandmother would take a bullhorn and make sure women in these villages knew how to access birth control.
Kamala Harris
Women
Mother
Control
Birth
Birth Control
Would
India
About
Take
Knew
Make
Bug
Sure
Access
How
Go
Hearing
Up
Grew
Stories
Little
Grandmother
Used
Who
Villages
Her
I did not learn the flaws of the criminal-justice system in law school or college or by reading about it. I grew up knowing the flaws and how it was disproportionately impacting the black community. It's not academic for me.
Kamala Harris
Me
Law
School
Black
College
Reading
Community
System
Black Community
Law School
About
Academic
Knowing
Learn
How
Up
Did
Grew
Flaws
Disproportionately
The idea of the beauty of diversity came from just growing up where I grew up. Los Angeles is a very big city - there's Little Ethiopia, Little Armenia, Little Tokyo, Chinatown, there's African-Americans, Latinos, Europeans.
Kamasi Washington
Diversity
Beauty
Big
Latinos
City
Angeles
Idea
Armenia
Big City
Los
Came
Los Angeles
Up
Very
Just
Where
Grew
Chinatown
Little
Ethiopia
Tokyo
Europeans
Growing
Growing Up
At the time of 'The Epic,' as a core band, we were all spending so much time apart making music for other people that by the time we got together - even though we grew up together and there's a special connection we have - it was like a rare privilege to come together.
Kamasi Washington
Music
Time
Together
People
Rare
Band
Other
Spending
Though
Rare Privilege
Come
Like
Got
Making
Were
Up
Privilege
So Much Time
Grew
Apart
Epic
Much
Special
Connection
Even
By The Time
Core
I grew up in rural Missouri about two hours north of St. Louis, and if the wind was blowing right on a Saturday night, I could catch All Star Wrestling out of Kansas City, which was run by Bob Geigel, and some of the stars there were Bulldog Bob Brower and Ray Candy.
Kane
Wind
Stars
Out
Run
City
Rural
Some
All-Star
About
Wrestling
Could
Catch
Ray
Hours
Missouri
Bulldog
Were
Up
Louis
North
Blowing
St. Louis
Candy
Grew
Which
Bob
Kansas
Kansas City
Star
Saturday
Right
Saturday Night
Night
Two
Some people say I'm not country, but they don't really know how I grew up.
Kane Brown
People
Some People
Country
Say
People Say
Some
Know
How
Up
Grew
Really
I grew up without a father figure.
Kane Brown
Father
Father Figure
Without
Up
Grew
Figure
I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.
Kara Walker
Work
Try
Think
Visual
Moralistic
Tendency
Like
Least
Up
Very
Grew
Avoid
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