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As a kid, we had one television channel and a sad little roller rink. And there was not much else to do. So I used my imagination all of the time growing up. That's the main way I played. When we moved and I went to high school, I did my first play, and I was completely addicted to theatre. It felt like home; it felt natural.
Darby Stanchfield
Sad
Time
Home
Natural
Theatre
School
First
Imagination
Addicted
Channel
Else
Way
Kid
Television
High
Rink
High School
Main
Had
Like
Felt
Up
Did
Roller
Moved
Little
Much
Used
Growing
Growing Up
Play
Played
I have been making hip-hop since I was a kid growing up in New York in the '80s and '90s. It's always been a hobby of mine - I've been making beats and writing songs for as long or longer than I've been acting.
Dash Mihok
Writing
Long
Mine
Kid
Songs
Beats
Longer
Since
New
Always
Making
Hip-Hop
Been
Up
Than
York
Hobby
New York
Acting
Growing
Growing Up
I had a lot of reading problems growing up.
Dav Pilkey
Problems
Reading
Had
Lot
Up
Growing
Growing Up
I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more seriously - especially the Ten Commandments - and wondering how 'Thou shalt not kill' could be so absolutely ignored. It took me until I was in my 40s to write what I was thinking as a young soldier.
Dave Brubeck
Me
Seriously
Church
Young
Thinking
Took
Soldier
Philosophy
Kid
Thou
Hurry
Ten
Ten Commandments
More
Shalt
Could
Absolutely
Write
Taking
Until
How
Heard
Commandments
Lot
Up
Wondering
Ignored
Growing
Growing Up
Started
I can't remember the last time I was out at a bar or club. I'll still drink, but I just can't remember the last time I blacked out. Which I think means I'm growing up.
Dave Franco
Time
Remember
Club
Think
Out
Drink
Still
Up
Just
Which
Bar
Means
Growing
Growing Up
Last
Last Time
Growing up in a band is weird - you get stuck hanging on to what it is you think you are. But what I took into Depeche was that punk ethic, that you don't have to be accomplished to be a musician. If you've got ideas, you can do this.
Dave Gahan
You
Punk
Band
Think
Took
Musician
Stuck
Weird
Ideas
Got
Accomplished
Up
Get
Depeche
Hanging
Ethic
Growing
Growing Up
I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye. He set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still, to this day, I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.
Dave Grohl
Best
Day
Great
Musicians
Hero
Example
Think
Local
Musical
Great Example
Musician
See
He
Him
Still
Up
Biggest
Us
Growing
Growing Up
Set
Well, the stuff that I liked growing up was AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, but I also liked the Beatles and guys like Cat Stevens and Elton John.
Dave Mustaine
Beatles
Elton
Elton John
John
Guys
Cat
Cat Stevens
Stuff
Like
Liked
Also
Well
Led
Led Zeppelin
Up
Growing
Growing Up
Zeppelin
I didn't know a single musical soundtrack, really, growing up. Nobody listened to musicals. That wasn't a thing I did.
Daveed Diggs
Single
Musical
Musicals
Nobody
Know
Soundtrack
Up
Did
Listened
Really
Growing
Growing Up
Thing
When I was seven my parents divorced. My father went to Dallas. My mom fled to the shelter of my grandparents in a strange central Ohio town of 22,000, Wooster. When it looked like I was growing up to be a wimp I was forced to live with my father, which I did not want to do.
David Berman
Mom
Strange
Father
Parents
Live
Seven
Divorced
Town
Like
Looked
Forced
Shelter
Up
Did
Ohio
Want
Which
Central
Grandparents
Growing
Growing Up
Dallas
Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.
David Blaine
Mother
Single
Kid
Brooklyn
Single Mother
Up
Growing
Growing Up
Basically
Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.
David Boreanaz
Work
Health
Me
Charity
Saw
Charity Work
Had
Issues
Effect
Up
Children
Dad
Growing
Growing Up
Profound
When I was growing up, there was hate. I looked around and saw that it was so wrong. I got to go round the world with my rock band, and you can bring harmony.
David Bryan
You
Hate
World
Band
Harmony
Saw
Wrong
Looked
Around
Rock
Got
Rock Band
Go
Up
Growing
Growing Up
Round
Bring
Growing up, my dad owned a restaurant in Washington, DC, and food was something I was passionate about. But when I finally got into it, I felt like it was so late in the game; that's why I worked seven days a week at Craft and Mercer Kitchen. I wanted to see how far I could take it.
David Chang
Food
Game
Late
Seven
Finally
Restaurant
See
About
Something
Kitchen
Week
Could
Take
Days
Like
Felt
Got
How
How Far
Passionate
Up
Craft
Owned
Wanted
Far
Worked
Dad
Washington
Washington D.C.
Growing
Growing Up
Why
I remember very vividly, as a child growing up in England, living through the Cuban Missile Crisis. For a few days, the entire biosphere seemed to be on the verge of destruction. And the same weapons are still here, and they're still armed. If we avoid that trap, others are waiting for us.
David Christian
Waiting
Destruction
Remember
Few
Living
Others
Crisis
Weapons
Entire
Vividly
Seemed
Through
Missile
Days
Armed
Cuban
Cuban Missile Crisis
Verge
Still
Up
Very
Child
Same
Us
Avoid
England
Trap
Growing
Growing Up
Here
I actually got to write with one of my musical heroes, a guy named Raine Maida from Our Lady Peace. I got to sit down and write some songs with him, and that was pretty heavy. I listened to Our Lady Peace growing up. It got me through the teenage angst.
David Cook
Me
Peace
Heroes
Sit
Down
Teenage
Our
Musical
Some
Pretty
Guy
Angst
Through
Write
Songs
Named
Him
Got
Up
Listened
Heavy
Lady
Growing
Growing Up
Actually
Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts around.
David Grann
Mom
Books
Would
Part
Around
Always
Go
Were
Huge
Up
Huge Part
Childhood
Manuscripts
Growing
Growing Up
Vacation
Growing up in the San Fernando Valley, I grew up around a lot of Jews. I grew up culturally Jewish, ethnically Jewish, but without real belief and without a strong faith.
David Gregory
Faith
Strong
Jews
Valley
Around
Without
Real
Fernando
Lot
Up
Grew
San
Belief
Growing
Growing Up
Jewish
Growing up, I really looked up to the classic Hollywood actors like Spencer Tracy, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Falk. I love character actors - I've never wanted to be the leading guy.
David Harewood
Love
Character
Spencer
Spencer Tracy
Classic
Guy
Never
Leading
Like
Robert
Looked
Tracy
Up
Wanted
Hollywood
Really
Peter
Growing
Growing Up
Actor
I felt pretty good growing up. I didn't feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole Charlie Chan-Fu Manchu thing.
David Henry Hwang
Good
You
Racism
Remember
Way
Television
Television Show
Out
Characters
Bad
Would
Charlie
Pretty
Pretty Good
Feel
Know
Because
Felt
Go
Lot
Up
Going
Movie
Either
Them
Asian
Asians
Prejudice
Show
Avoid
Whole
Growing
Ridiculously
Growing Up
Thing
Portrayed
I knew I was Chinese, but growing up, it never occurred to me that that had any particular implication or that it should differentiate me in any way. I thought it was a minor detail, like having red hair.
David Henry Hwang
Me
Thought
Hair
Red Hair
Way
Detail
Minor
Having
Never
Had
Knew
Red
Implication
Particular
Like
Occurred
Up
Any
Chinese
Should
Growing
Growing Up
Differentiate
I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years.
David Hyde Pierce
Time
Relationship
Remember
College
More
Rivalry
Developed
Him
Because
Years
Up
Very
Close
Any
Going
Going Away
Which
Really
Tom
Growing
Growing Up
Away
Conscious
Recent
Recent Years
By The Time
Sibling
I know Spanish pretty well. I'm half-Puerto Rican - my mom is from Puerto Rico - so I have a lot of family there, and my mom's first language is Spanish. But growing up in the States, and with my dad being from the States, I'm kind of just like this white kid.
David Lambert
Mom
Family
Language
First
Half
White
States
Kid
Kind
Pretty
Like
Know
Well
Lot
Up
Just
Being
Spanish
Rican
Rico
Dad
Growing
Growing Up
Puerto
Puerto Rican
Puerto Rico
When I was growing up, it was not the heyday of the western.
David Milch
Heyday
Western
Up
Growing
Growing Up
My grandfather was the king of a region in western Nigeria, where I had the privilege to live for seven years while growing up. But what we think of as royalty in the U.K. is very different to royalty in Nigeria: if you were to throw a stone there, you would hit about 30 princes.
David Oyelowo
You
King
Live
Think
Seven
Would
About
Throw
Had
Princes
Were
Years
Western
Up
Very
Privilege
Hit
Stone
Where
Different
While
Region
Grandfather
Growing
Growing Up
Nigeria
Royalty
I have such fond memories of watching 'Doctor Who' when I was a kid and growing up, that if I've left anybody anywhere with memories as fond, then I feel like I've done my job.
David Tennant
Memories
Doctor
Job
Kid
Fond
Fond Memories
Feel
Like
Doctor Who
Left
Up
Done
Anybody
Anywhere
Then
Who
Growing
Growing Up
Watching
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