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Part of my growing up was always trying to make my parents proud and always trying to keep them happy. I think part of what held them together was my involvement in sports.
Jeff Garcia
Together
Sports
Happy
Parents
Think
Part
Involvement
Make
Always
Proud
Up
Trying
Them
Held
Growing
Keep
Growing Up
When I was growing up, I could tell you everything about the three radio stations in Nashville. My 12- and 14-year-olds can't tell me one radio station here but can tell me three on Sirius.
Jeff Jarrett
Me
You
Three
Everything
Station
Stations
Tell
About
Could
Nashville
Up
Radio
Radio Station
Radio Stations
Growing
Growing Up
Here
Many of Judy Blume's books - which I devoured when I was growing up and where I found characters that were believable because they were a lot like me - caused considerable consternation when they were first published, but now they're widely accepted as an essential part of the children's literary canon.
Jeff Kinney
Me
First
Considerable
Books
Characters
Consternation
Part
Like
Devoured
Because
Accepted
Judy
Caused
Were
Lot
Up
Essential
Essential Part
Where
Children
Literary
Canon
Which
Many
Growing
Believable
Growing Up
Found
Now
Published
Widely
One of my favorite things about the DC Universe, growing up as a reader, was just how big it was and just how many characters and superheroes there were. And how many odd characters there were.
Jeff Lemire
Big
Universe
Favorite
Characters
Favorite Things
About
Superheroes
Reader
How
Odd
Were
Up
Just
Many
Growing
Growing Up
Things
I was always interested in creative writing growing up. From junior high on, I was writing short stories. I also grew up watching movies. My father would take me to everything. Most weeks, I could open the paper having seen every movie listed.
Jeff Nichols
Me
Creative
Writing
Father
Seen
Every
Everything
Paper
High
Would
Having
Could
Weeks
Take
Open
Most
Also
Always
Up
Junior
Junior High
Listed
Short
Movie
Grew
Stories
Short Stories
Interested
Movies
Creative Writing
Growing
Growing Up
Watching
The beauty of growing up in a coaching family, particularly one that isn't at the very highest level, is that you get to be in the gym - that's where you grow up.
Jeff Van Gundy
Family
You
Beauty
Gym
Highest
Highest Level
Particularly
Up
Very
Get
Where
Coaching
Grow
Grow Up
Growing
Growing Up
Level
Growing up, me and my mom never really talked about me being gay.
Jeffree Star
Mom
Me
Gay
About
Never
Talked
Up
Being
Really
Growing
Growing Up
As an actor, it was important to me to play gay characters because, growing up, it was something I never really saw done on television and in film, and I was questioning why there weren't more people like me.
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
Me
Gay
People
Important
Saw
Television
Characters
Something
More
More People
Never
Like
Because
Were
Questioning
Up
Done
Really
Growing
Growing Up
Film
Actor
Why
Play
When I was growing up, there was a character on TV; there was a character stereotype: it was personified by Mel on 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
Jeffrey Tambor
Character
TV
Van
Stereotype
Dick Van Dyke
Up
Dyke
Show
Growing
Growing Up
In general, for me, a big thing in my life has been just sort of learning what true self-esteem is and what true positive self-image is. And being a dancer, and growing up in that world, you're so focused on yourself, and you're so focused on achieving goals, on finding perfection, and working on your craft.
Jenna Dewan
Positive
Life
Me
You
Learning
Yourself
World
Goals
My Life
Big
Dancer
Focused
Has-Been
Finding
General
Perfection
True
Self-Esteem
Sort
Self-Image
Been
Up
Craft
Just
Being
Big Thing
Achieving
Working
Your
Growing
Growing Up
Thing
As a lonely teenager growing up in Virginia, I fed off any pop culture that could show me different ways of being from what I saw on 'The Cosby Show' reruns or read about in an Ann M. Martin book.
Jenna Wortham
Me
Culture
Book
Lonely
Virginia
Teenager
Saw
Ways
Cosby
About
Martin
Fed
Could
Read
Off
Up
Any
Being
Different
Pop
Pop Culture
Reruns
Show
Growing
Growing Up
Different Ways
Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball. It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.
Jennie Finch
Sports
Women
Amazing
Young
Swimming
Softball
Incredible
Gymnastics
League
Major
Come
Major League
Major League Baseball
Looked
How
How Far
Up
Board
Young Women
Far
Across
Baseball
Growing
Growing Up
Now
Baseball Players
Players
Basketball
I blame and credit my brothers for my competitive fire within me. Growing up, I lost at everything! My brothers are quite a bit older - 10 years and 5 years - so it was a challenge, but I have some of the most amazing memories with my big brothers.
Jennie Finch
Me
Memories
Blame
Amazing
Challenge
Fire
Big
Lost
Older
Everything
Bit
Some
Brothers
Most
Most Amazing
Within
Years
Up
Quite
Quite A Bit
Growing
Growing Up
Credit
Competitive
I wasn't allowed to watch regular television when I was growing up, only PBS, so I watched 'Masterpiece Theatre' and a lot of Jane Austen. I loved stories where the girl is attracted to a man and it looks like it's not going to work out.
Jennifer Coolidge
Work
Man
Theatre
Girl
Television
Out
Only
Allowed
Like
Attracted
Looks
Masterpiece
Lot
Austen
Up
Going
Where
Stories
Loved
Jane
Jane Austen
Work Out
Regular
Growing
Growing Up
Watch
Watched
Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie... that existed on a parallel plane, you know?
Jennifer Garner
You
Thought
Television
Television Show
Parallel
Know
Existed
Up
Did
Where
Movie
Plane
Working
Show
Growing
Growing Up
I wasn't a dancer learning to play Baby Houseman. I was Baby Houseman learning to play a dancer. I was someone who'd never done any Latin dance. I'd taken jazz classes and ballet growing up in New York, so I had dance in me, and I knew I loved it, but I'd never done a dance audition.
Jennifer Grey
Me
Learning
Dance
Jazz
Baby
Dancer
Latin
Classes
Someone
Never
Had
Taken
Knew
New
Audition
Ballet
Up
York
Any
Done
New York
Loved
Growing
Growing Up
Play
Growing up, I didn't know anybody who didn't have a miner in the family. Both of my grandfathers were miners.
Jennifer Haigh
Family
Miner
Miners
Both
Know
Were
Up
Anybody
Grandfathers
Who
Growing
Growing Up
I had, probably, a more challenging experience growing up than most middle-class chicks.
Jennifer Hale
Experience
More
Had
Most
Up
Chicks
Than
Growing
Growing Up
Challenging
Growing up, my sisters and I would always talk stories. One of my frustrations was I didn't know anything about cameras. I didn't know how to make a film and I obviously didn't have a special effects budget. I was a kid. So I was learning to draw to get down the stuff that was in my head, that I couldn't afford to actually do.
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Learning
Down
Draw
Kid
Would
About
Head
Stuff
Budget
Know
Talk
Obviously
Make
Always
How
Cameras
Up
Effects
Sisters
Afford
Get
Stories
Anything
Frustrations
Special
Special Effects
Growing
Growing Up
Film
Actually
I think in the experience of growing up and realizing who you are, what your place in the world is can be quite scary.
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
You
Experience
World
Think
Scary
Up
Quite
Place
Realizing
Your
Who
Growing
Growing Up
I am a huge hip-hop fan, and growing up, I only listened to hip-hop, so I dressed accordingly.
Jenny Lewis
Dressed
Only
Am
Hip-Hop
Huge
Up
Accordingly
Listened
Fan
Growing
Growing Up
When I was growing up, I was so fascinated by Mel Blanc and all of the different voices that he did for 'Looney Tunes' and watching Robin Williams record voice-over for the genie in 'Aladdin.' It always seemed to be a major honor - something you have to earn. Like people trust you when they want to have you there without seeing you.
Jenny Slate
You
Trust
People
Honor
Earn
Williams
Record
Seeing
Seemed
Something
Voice-Over
Blanc
Voices
He
Major
Like
Genie
Robin
Robin Williams
Without
Always
Up
Did
Different
Want
Tunes
Fascinated
Growing
Growing Up
Watching
Growing up, I had a face that people wanted to tell things to, and I grew up with adults who had so much to say. They had lived through decades of unbelievable poverty, starvation, political upheaval, chaos.
Jenny Zhang
People
Political
Face
Poverty
Starvation
Chaos
Say
Tell
Unbelievable
Through
Adult
Had
Up
Upheaval
Decades
Wanted
Grew
Much
Who
Growing
Lived
Growing Up
Things
While I was growing up in Flushing, Queens, we socialized exclusively with other Chinese immigrants. I was forbidden to make contact with nonapproved, non-Chinese peers outside school. That was fine with me.
Jenny Zhang
Me
School
Other
Peers
Immigrants
Fine
Outside
Contact
Forbidden
Make
Queens
Up
While
Chinese
Growing
Growing Up
Socialized
Acting was always something fun to do on the side growing up, but I never really took it seriously. I would do a commercial every few months, and that paid my school tuition. But in high school, I was mostly into sports and didn't go out for stuff during those seasons.
Jeremy Howard
Sports
School
Seriously
Few
Every
Side
Took
Months
Those
Out
High
Would
High School
Something
Something Fun
Never
Stuff
Mostly
Always
Go
Up
Commercial
Tuition
Really
Acting
Paid
Fun
Growing
Growing Up
Seasons
I was a big Michael Jordan fan growing up. I don't feel my game resembles his though.
Jeremy Lin
Game
Big
Though
Jordan
Feel
His
Up
Michael
Michael Jordan
Fan
Resembles
Growing
Growing Up
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