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I grew up watching horror movies with my dad. For as long as I can remember. I grew up loving being terrified. 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' at sleepovers. Hiding behind my fingers.
Maika Monroe
Remember
Long
Hiding
Fingers
Horror
Horror Movies
Terrified
Up
Behind
Being
Grew
Loving
Movies
Dad
Street
Watching
Nightmare
It fell into my lap. I grew up doing dance classes. And one day, a film production company contacted my dance school looking for background dancers. I wasn't looking for it. It just happened. And I found myself on set. And that was that.
Maika Monroe
Myself
Day
School
Dance
Looking
Dance Classes
Dancers
Background
One Day
Classes
Fell
Doing
Up
Just
Grew
Happened
Production
Production Company
Lap
Company
Film
Found
Set
For me, I grew up doing kiteboarding where no girls are doing it, and you had to prove yourself. You just had to know that you could do it, too. It's the mentality you had to have to make it. I work hard like anyone else.
Maika Monroe
Work
Me
You
Yourself
Work Hard
Girl
Too
Else
Mentality
Could
Had
Like
Know
Make
Prove
Doing
Up
Just
Where
Anyone
Grew
Anyone Else
Hard
I grew up in southwestern Ontario in the heart of a Mennonite community. All my family are part of the Mennonite church.
Malcolm Gladwell
Family
Heart
Church
Community
Ontario
Part
Up
Grew
To be honest, I grew up with Alan Menken's music.
Mallory Jansen
Music
To Be Honest
Up
Grew
Alan
Honest
People who grew up watching Disney films like myself, there are films that are certain benchmarks in my childhood. 'The Little Mermaid' was the first movie I remember seeing. 'Beauty And The Beast,' 'Aladdin,' those are three I remember right off the bat.
Mandy Moore
Myself
People
Remember
Three
Beast
First
Beauty
Films
Bat
Those
Seeing
Mermaid
Like
Off
Up
Childhood
Movie
Grew
Little
Certain
Disney
Who
Right
Watching
I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.
Mandy Patinkin
Music
School
Side
Synagogue
High
Temple
High School
Only
Joined
House
Mostly
Gospel
Boy
South
Chicago
Up
South Side
American
Listen
African
African-American
Grew
Then
Choir
I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn't bear living in the country. The main motivation for moving to Britain was to get away.
Manfred Mann
Time
People
Country
South Africa
Living
Bear
Main
Like
Motivation
South
Up
Get
Africa
Grew
Moving
Many
Away
Britain
Growing up, my parents always played artists like Alanis Morissette, Aerosmith and Michael Jackson, so I just grew to love their music. And I just love so many diverse artists for different reasons; some for their instruments, some for their edge, some for their vocals.
Manika
Love
Music
Parents
Edge
Some
Diverse
Vocals
Like
Instruments
Always
Aerosmith
Up
Michael
Michael Jackson
Jackson
Just
Artists
Different
Grew
To Love
Different Reasons
Reasons
Many
Growing
Growing Up
Played
The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty.
Manmohan Singh
Character
You
Generation
Progress
Made
Example
Poverty
Single
Chronic
East
East Asian
Indian
Able
Percent
Had
Countries
Economy
For Example
Look
Were
Been
Years
Get
Grew
Transform
Asian
Asian Countries
Rid
Last
Phenomenal
The biggest thing is, I can never forget where I come from. That's why I wear Miami on my sleeve. I never forget where I grew up.
Manny Machado
Sleeve
Wear
Never
Never Forget
Come
Up
Miami
Forget
Where
Grew
Biggest
Biggest Thing
Why
Thing
I grew up a really shy kid, but I always surrounded myself with a lot funny people. It depends on the day - if I feel like being quiet, I will be. I'm not a complete goofball, though.
Manny Montana
Funny
Myself
Day
People
Will
Funny People
Complete
Kid
Though
Feel
Like
Goofball
Always
Lot
Surrounded
Up
Quiet
Depends
Being
Grew
Really
Being Quiet
Shy
I grew up in the hood, and I was raised to hate cops. But then, I started to realize that they're people, and they have lives, too.
Manny Montana
Hate
People
Too
Hood
Up
Grew
Realize
Then
Lives
Cops
Started
Raised
That case with my two sisters? That was a disaster. It was. They're really fine people. When my family and my two sisters' families - their children - grew up and so on, it just wasn't the same. But we took care of them very nicely.
Manuel Moroun
Family
People
Care
Took
Fine
Case
Disaster
Up
Very
Families
Sisters
Same
Just
Children
Grew
Them
Really
Nicely
Two
Most of the music I grew up listening to was not Christian music, although I definitely had a lot of that at home, too.
Marc Martel
Music
Home
Listening
Christian
Too
Definitely
Had
Most
Although
Lot
Up
Grew
Christian Music
And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.
Marc Newson
Culture
Part
Surfing
Up
Australia
Where
Grew
I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.
Margaret Atwood
Age
Gordon
Sci-Fi
Up
Flash
Golden
Golden Age
Grew
I grew up never thinking about acting as a profession because that was what my mum did, and often, you don't want to be like your parents.
Margaret Qualley
You
Parents
Thinking
About
Never
Like
Because
Up
Did
Often
Want
Grew
Acting
Your
Profession
Mum
I grew up in communist Russia where we didn't have anything, so I'm not worried that I can't buy an extra pair of shoes.
Margarita Levieva
Buy
Shoes
Extra
Worried
Russia
Up
Where
Grew
Anything
Communist
Pair
Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.
Marge Piercy
Love
Long
Hair
Considered
Way
Security
Long Hair
Blanket
Part
Feels
Because
Cloak
May
Fan
Grew
Which
Bohemian
Keep
Why
I grew up in the same place as my mother, seeing the same trees my mother saw when she was at work; the flowers I picked were the flowers that my grandma planted. We have different styles; I wouldn't make the same clothes that my mum made, or my grandma, but we have the same taste.
Margherita Missoni
Work
Mother
Made
Clothes
Trees
Saw
Seeing
Picked
She
Make
Styles
Were
Up
Taste
Same
Different
Grew
Place
Grandma
Planted
Different Styles
Mum
Flowers
In many ways, everything about my upbringing decreed that I wouldn't write a memoir because in the world where I grew up, in Chicago in the Fifties and Sixties, one key way of protesting ourselves - 'we' meaning black people - against racism, against its stereotypes and its insults, was to curate and narrate very carefully the story of the people.
Margo Jefferson
Racism
People
World
Key
Black
Carefully
Everything
Way
Ways
Ourselves
Memoir
About
Write
Stereotypes
Because
Protesting
Insults
Chicago
Up
Very
Curate
Upbringing
Sixties
Where
Grew
Story
Against
Meaning
Fifties
Many
My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world.
Maria Semple
World
Father
Kind
Up
Grew
Screenwriter
My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world. I always had a mind for characters and dialogue, and my head was filled with that stuff, so it seemed like a good place to start.
Maria Semple
Good
World
Father
Mind
Characters
Kind
Good Place
Seemed
Had
Head
Stuff
Like
Always
Dialogue
Up
Grew
Screenwriter
Place
Filled
Start
My mother's death brought me to my knees. She was my hero, my role model, my very best friend. I spoke to her every single day of my life. I really tried hard when I grew up to make her proud of me.
Maria Shriver
Life
Death
Best
Day
Me
Mother
Hero
My Life
Single
Every
Best Friend
Tried
Brought
Knees
Spoke
She
Make
Single Day
Proud
Friend
Up
Very
Model
Role
Role Model
Grew
Really
Hard
Her
Every Single Day
My father was strict and always taught me, no matter who it is, everybody is an uncle. To me, everybody was someone I respect like family. I grew up with that.
Mariano Rivera
Family
Me
Respect
Matter
Father
Strict
Uncle
Everybody
Someone
Like
Always
Up
Taught
Grew
Who
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