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When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound - Joy Division's 'Closer,' or Echo and the Bunnymen's 'Heaven Up Here'... I had a more intimate relationship with those records than I did with most of the people in my life.
Moby
Sad
Life
Relationship
People
Joy
My Life
Intimate
Those
Echo
More
Records
Had
Division
Most
Sound
Were
Up
Friends
Than
Did
Closer
Closest
Closest Friends
May
Heaven
Growing
Growing Up
Here
Albums
Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.
Moby
Diversity
Extreme
Alike
Angeles
Colonial
Baffling
Looked
Houses
Los
Los Angeles
Up
Connecticut
Growing
Growing Up
When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music.
Moby
Music
Pretentious
Met
Books
Only
Obscure
Most
Read
Up
Person
Listened
Movies
Growing
Growing Up
Ever
Watched
Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.
Mohsin Hamid
State
Tyrannical
Shadow
Up
Growing
Lived
Pakistan
Growing Up
When the forces are aligning against hybridity, it harms everyone, as we are all migrants. Growing up in Pakistan, I know just how oppressive that kind of puritanical mindset can be.
Mohsin Hamid
Everyone
Mindset
Kind
Puritanical
Know
Forces
How
Oppressive
Up
Just
Against
Growing
Pakistan
Growing Up
Growing up Catholic has been a gift.
Moira Kelly
Gift
Has-Been
Catholic
Been
Up
Growing
Growing Up
I come from a big family of storytellers and, growing up, I liked hearing about the years before I was born.
Molly Antopol
Family
Big
Before
Born
About
Come
Liked
Big Family
Years
Hearing
Up
Storytellers
Growing
Growing Up
Growing up, I had a ton of friends, and I had a great life, but people still made fun of me sometimes.
Molly Tarlov
Life
Great
Me
People
Sometimes
Made
Great Life
Had
Still
Up
Friends
Fun
Growing
Growing Up
Ton
I think everybody's always attracted to both sexes. I mean, I think that women are very attractive. I've kissed girls, but everybody experiments. It's part of growing up.
Monica Keena
Women
Girl
Think
Everybody
Sexes
Kissed
Both
Part
Attracted
Attractive
Always
Women Are
Up
Very
Experiments
Mean
Growing
Growing Up
Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to figure out who I was in a primarily white school.
Monica Raymund
Change
Sometimes
School
Hair
Experiment
White
Latina
Out
Would
Tried
Voice
Primarily
Lot
Up
Very
Trying
Figure
Who
Growing
Growing Up
You see all the greats, people who were idols of mine growing up. You see those guys on the cover of video games.
Mookie Betts
Video Games
You
People
Mine
Those
See
Guys
Idols
Cover
Were
Up
Greats
Video
Games
Who
Growing
Growing Up
At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work.
Morgan Brittany
Work
Time
Business
Teenager
Well
Industry
Within
Up
Very
Child
Child Actor
Established
Grew
Turned
Less
Growing
Growing Up
Actor
Growing up as a kid in inner city of Baltimore, Maryland, the way I played the game, I used to always steal the basketball.
Muggsy Bogues
Game
Way
Kid
City
Steal
Maryland
Always
Baltimore
Up
Used
Growing
Growing Up
Played
Inner
Inner City
Basketball
Growing up, I had a sense of the importance of commerce and trade to everyday life. Our family lived in several countries, and I was fascinated by the free exchange of goods and services between individuals and companies - the way both parties could benefit.
Muhtar Kent
Life
Family
Everyday Life
Free
Sense
Everyday
Benefit
Our
Way
Several
Both
Both Parties
Could
Exchange
Had
Individuals
Between
Countries
Goods
Importance
Parties
Trade
Up
Commerce
Companies
Fascinated
Growing
Lived
Growing Up
Services
But I feel like I developed my own love for hip-hop and rap music by myself. Just growing up and hearing new things. As you grow up, you begin to listen to new music that this kid is listening to, then you begin to like your own music, and start discovering it yourself.
Murda Beatz
Love
Music
Myself
You
Yourself
Listening
New Things
Own
Kid
Rap
Rap Music
My Own
Developed
Feel
New
Like
Hip-Hop
New Music
Hearing
Discovering
Up
Begin
Listen
Just
Then
Your
Grow
Grow Up
Growing
Growing Up
Things
Start
My favorite wrestler growing up was Bret 'The Hitman' Hart.
Mustafa Ali
Hart
Favorite
Wrestler
Up
Growing
Growing Up
It means everything to be a father. I had a father growing up, so I wanted my kids to have a father as well.
Mustard
Father
Everything
Kids
Had
Well
Up
Wanted
Means
Growing
Growing Up
I've always loved writing, and my heritage has been interesting, growing up in a bi-cultural family. My mother being Vietnamese and my father being French, it's like an East-West meeting in my house.
Mylene Dinh-Robic
Family
Writing
Mother
Father
Heritage
Meeting
Has-Been
Like
House
French
Always
Been
Up
Being
Loved
Interesting
Vietnamese
Growing
Growing Up
Growing up where I grew up in Queens, you have the United Nations all around you.
Nadia Ali
You
United Nations
All-Around
Around
Queens
Up
Nations
Where
Grew
Growing
Growing Up
United
When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.
Nadia Comaneci
You
Got
Lot
Up
Heavy
Realize
Shoulders
Your
Growing
Growing Up
Things
I didn't have a brown-skinned superhero growing up who wore cornrows and who reflected the inner city where I come from in Philadelphia.
Nafessa Williams
City
Superhero
Come
Up
Reflected
Where
Wore
Who
Growing
Growing Up
Inner
Inner City
Philadelphia
My family never took vacations growing up. It just wasn't a thing.
Nahnatchka Khan
Family
Took
Never
Up
Just
Growing
Growing Up
Thing
Vacations
Back when I was growing up, getting caught with a copy of 'Creepy,' 'Eerie' or 'Vampirella' was almost as bad as your parents finding out you were reading 'Playboy.'
Nancy A. Collins
You
Parents
Reading
Back
Out
Bad
Finding
Almost
Caught
Were
Up
Getting
Your
Growing
Growing Up
Playboy
Copy
Creepy
There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.
Naomie Harris
Life
Family
Wonderful
Men
My Life
Visible
Course
Were
Been
Up
Any
Really
Growing
Growing Up
I'm not talking about Russia in my music. I've never been to Russia. I'm not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China. I'm talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.
Nas
Life
Music
Me
Crazy
World
Reflect
Not Talking
Crazy World
Sides
About
Russia
Never
Talking
Been
Up
American
Africa
Being
Different
China
Different Sides
Helping
Growing
Growing Up
Switzerland
I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed.
Natalia Vodianova
Life
Me
People
Will
Looking
Looking Back
Live
Other
Gave
Incredible
Tools
Back
Bit
Further
Russia
Push
Make
Up
Very
Privileges
Different
Happen
Realise
Succeed
Different Life
Growing
Growing Up
Now
Things
Things Happen
Necessarily
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