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I was a ballerina for 10 years growing up, but I stopped.
Amy Smart
Ballerina
Years
Up
Stopped
Growing
Growing Up
I didn't get to play many video games when I was growing up.
Ana de Armas
Video Games
Up
Get
Video
Games
Many
Growing
Growing Up
Play
Right after college, after growing up in the United States, I moved to India, broadly telling the story of how an old and stagnant country was suddenly waking up. And I came home, back to America, in 2009 after telling that story and writing a book about that.
Anand Giridharadas
Home
Book
Writing
Old
College
Country
Back
States
Telling
India
About
How
Came
Up
Waking
Waking Up
America
Moved
After
Stagnant
Story
Suddenly
Growing
Growing Up
United
United States
Right
As a teenager growing up in the suburbs of Washington, I ritually watched the Sunday-morning political talk shows with my family. We parsed and argued and jeered at the screen as national figures delivered careful, poll-tested talking points.
Anand Giridharadas
Family
Political
National
Teenager
Argued
Points
Delivered
Talk
Talk Shows
Talking
Up
Screen
Suburbs
Figures
Shows
Washington
Growing
Growing Up
Watched
Careful
I have an ambivalent feeling about the Israeli army. Growing up in Tel Aviv, being involved in the arts, the last thing artists want to do is fight.
Anat Cohen
Army
Fight
Feeling
About
Involved
Israeli
Up
Ambivalent
Artists
Arts
Being
Want
Growing
Growing Up
Thing
Last
The clarinet is not so dominant in Israeli music as it is in klezmer. I heard klezmer when I was growing up, but for some reason I avoided it. I listened to Louis Armstrong instead. But the sense of melody is the connection between jazz and klezmer.
Anat Cohen
Music
Sense
Jazz
Melody
Clarinet
Some
Instead
Between
Armstrong
Israeli
Heard
Up
Dominant
Louis
Louis Armstrong
Listened
Avoided
Reason
Connection
Growing
Growing Up
I'm not a highly outgoing person. I'm pretty guarded when you first meet me. But being in a Speedo for my entire life growing up, because I was a swimmer, and being naked in front of people now, doesn't really bother me.
Anders Holm
Life
Me
You
People
First
Naked
Guarded
Meet
Outgoing
Pretty
Entire
Entire Life
Bother
Highly
Because
Up
Person
Front
Being
Really
Swimmer
Growing
Growing Up
Now
You can't take a kid from north Alabama and growing up in church - some of that is just gonna seep out.
Anderson East
You
Church
Kid
Out
Some
Take
Up
North
Just
Gonna
Growing
Growing Up
Alabama
Growing up in a house where there was a lot of different musical influences - my mom listens to soul stuff and Top 40, my sisters would listen to hip-hop - and the church, I grew up listening to a lot of gospel stuff. So I think that plays a role in how I make music now because my music has a lot of range. I don't just do one thing.
Anderson Paak
Music
Mom
Soul
Listening
Church
Think
Musical
Top
Range
Would
One Thing
Stuff
House
Make
Gospel
Because
How
Hip-Hop
Lot
Up
Role
Sisters
Listen
Just
Listens
Where
Different
Influences
Grew
Growing
Growing Up
Now
Thing
Plays
When I was growing up, there wasn't too much technology. There weren't so many channels that we were glued to on TV. We had to go outside and create our games. Kids had the habit of being active and exercising, just enjoying the fresh air.
Andre Iguodala
Technology
Too Much
Active
Too
Channels
Our
Air
Kids
TV
Habit
Outside
Had
Exercising
Fresh
Fresh Air
Glued
Go
Were
Up
Just
Being
Create
Much
Games
Many
Growing
Growing Up
Enjoying
My mom struggled for a long time growing up poor, and then we were on welfare when I was a kid. So to see her kids, not just me, be successful and making money and happy and healthy and in good relationships - it means so much to her after all that she's been through.
Andrea Navedo
Time
Good
Mom
Me
Happy
Money
Welfare
Long
Long Time
Healthy
Relationships
Kid
Kids
See
Good Relationships
Struggled
Through
She
Making
Making Money
Were
Been
Up
Just
After
Poor
Then
Much
Successful
Means
Growing
Growing Up
Her
The black community sees itself as one group, and they are all experiencing the same experiences as a group with racism and whatnot, growing up in this country.
Andrea Navedo
Racism
Black
Country
Community
Group
Black Community
Sees
Up
Itself
Same
Whatnot
Experiences
Experiencing
Growing
Growing Up
I really needed a show like 'Jane' when I was growing up, so being able to portray a positive Latina character means a lot to me because I feel like it's helping me to contribute to someone's dreams.
Andrea Navedo
Positive
Dreams
Character
Me
Latina
Able
Someone
Feel
Like
Because
Lot
Up
Contribute
Being
Jane
Really
Means
Show
Helping
Growing
Growing Up
Portray
Needed
Growing up, I was quite self-conscious about getting too tall, but then I realized, 'You know what? I can use it to my advantage. Big is beautiful.'
Andreja Pejic
Beautiful
You
Big
Too
About
Self-Conscious
Advantage
Know
Tall
Up
Getting
Quite
Realized
Then
Use
Growing
Growing Up
On a personal level, my mom is my biggest inspiration. She's always been an idol for me. I used to dream about growing up and being like her.
Andreja Pejic
Mom
Me
Dream
About
Inspiration
Like
She
Always
Idol
Been
Up
Personal
Personal Level
Being
Biggest
Used
Growing
Growing Up
Her
Level
Growing up, I was a big Red Sox fan and looked up to guys like Dustin Pedroia, who's obviously not the biggest guy, but the way he competes, the way he works, it was motivating for me.
Andrew Benintendi
Me
Big
Way
Guy
Guys
He
Red
Like
Red Sox
Looked
Obviously
Motivating
Up
Sox
Fan
Biggest
Works
Growing
Growing Up
I feel like, throughout lots of my life, especially growing up, I felt powerless.
Andrew Haigh
Life
My Life
Throughout
Feel
Like
Powerless
Felt
Lots
Up
Growing
Growing Up
When I was growing up, I kept hoping that I wasn't really gay because I wanted to have children. I went through a long, tortured period, so the fact that I have been able to be true to myself and have a family has been the nicest surprise of my adulthood.
Andrew Solomon
Myself
Family
Gay
Be True
Long
Has-Been
Tortured
Hoping
Able
Fact
Through
Adulthood
True
Period
Because
Surprise
Been
Up
Children
Wanted
Really
Growing
Nicest
Growing Up
Kept
When I was a kid growing up, we had a cherry tree in the backyard, 100 years old. I climbed it, and it gave shade in the summertime and excellent cherries in the late summer. Having cherry blossoms around gives the best springtime vibe ever.
Andrew Wyatt
Best
Old
Tree
Gave
Late
Summer
Summertime
Kid
Backyard
Shade
Having
Gives
Excellent
Had
Around
Climbed
Cherries
Cherry
Springtime
Years
Up
Blossoms
Vibe
Growing
Growing Up
Ever
As a young boy growing up in New York City, we would spend our summers on the South Fork of Long Island. My dad would take me down to the beach at low tide. We would walk a mile down to the jetties, and he would lower me by my ankles into the crevices between the massive boulders to grab at huge ropes of mussels.
Andrew Zimmern
Me
Walk
Long
Young
Down
Our
Spend
Summers
Would
City
Beach
Long Island
Take
He
Ankles
Between
New
Massive
Tide
Island
Boy
South
Huge
Up
Grab
York
New York
Fork
New York City
Low
Lower
Ropes
Mile
Dad
Growing
Growing Up
The youngest boy in an Indian family has a good life. Growing up in a matriarchal family where my Indian mom's culture was dominant, I experienced this first hand.
Andy Dunn
Life
Good
Mom
Family
Culture
First
Good Life
Indian
Boy
Hand
Up
Dominant
Where
Experienced
Youngest
Growing
Growing Up
Growing up, my religious identity was primarily one of confusion. Nothing was pushed on me; nothing was overtly offered.
Andy Dunn
Me
Confusion
Nothing
Religious
Pushed
Primarily
Identity
Up
Offered
Growing
Growing Up
I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.
Andy Grove
Hungary
Nice
Teenager
Out
Opera
Opera Singer
Singer
Era
Up
Fantasy
Cut
Growing
Growing Up
'Hook' was one of my favorite movies when I was growing up, so we played with that theme on the title 'Never Land.'
Andy Mineo
Hook
Favorite
Favorite Movies
Never
Up
Title
Movies
Land
Theme
Growing
Growing Up
Played
I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.
Andy Serkis
Me
Took
Kid
One Thing
Up
Wanted
Grip
Really
Painter
Growing
Growing Up
Thing
When I was growing up, my father would not allow me to get a perm, so I straightened my hair for special occasions.
Angela Robinson
Me
Father
Hair
Would
Allow
Occasions
Up
Get
Straightened
Special
Growing
Growing Up
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