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I grew up here. These parks and hills were my playground, and I can't believe I never noticed these steps.


Gary Darling

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WITHNAIL AND I Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.
TOM MCCALL I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
TEA OBREHT I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and ...
STEVE KANALY I grew up with these kind of men.
JOHN TRAVOLTA I grew up in western Oregon, just outside Eugene, on 27 wooded acres that served as my playground.
BENJAMIN PERCY I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laug...
LOUIS C. K. I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie P...
FLEA I think that this is more real. I grew up in Garland and went to Garland High School, and I feel rig...
LARRY FRAZIER I grew up on 'S.N.L.,' doing all the sketches on the playground.
CECILY STRONG There's magic here. In the morning when I walk down these steps, I feel I'm in something special.
BILL LYONS The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.
CARLTON FISK I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.
S. E. HINTON Oh, oh, oh... No... just they got me. Undercover??? and what more??
This and this??
DEYTH BANGER I saw it, he wanted to buy something he was near to the store I went to see little far from him what...
DEYTH BANGER I grew up quick because my family was away a lot, and I took care of my sister. Then in my 20s, I we...
CARLENE CARTER These mods made significant improvements to the cars – enough so that I changed my mind (another p...
CHRISTINA ENGELA I grew up in the '40s and I heard all these great speeches, like Winston Churchill. His most famous,...
JOHNNY CASH I've never been a rocker, and I kind of hate punk rock, ... I grew up on ABBA and the Carpenters. Wh...
IAN COOKE But these girls never give up and that's what I love about these young kids.
HEATH SAGER Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is h...
TAYLOR DAYNE This is what people don't understand. When they might see me do something that's not 'Go...
GARY SHEFFIELD I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These ...
YANI TSENG I use to stand up for what I believe, now, I believe in what I stand up for.
MARIE-SUZANNE LABELLE (A.K.A MARIE-SUE) People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain B...
P. J. HARVEY Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt, Al Pacino, Russell Crowe - these leading men. These are the ones I grew up wit...
ROSS BUTLER I never envisioned that I would actually have to get my hands dirty and start one of these things up...
ROGER KRAPFL I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not fa...
ANNIE DILLARD I grew up alone, ... I spent a lot of time in my own imagination. I watched how (Winchell) reached o...
DENNIS DANIELS I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I...
ZINEDINE ZIDANE I basically have a whole new team. I don't think anybody expected us to be here, but these kids neve...
DONNA MOIR I don't generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the benc...
SATCHEL PAIGE I can't believe you put these people away when they walked in here!
BRIAN NEARY I grew up in Florida, which is the land of flea markets and swap meets. My grandmother loved to go t...
RANSOM RIGGS I'm from northern Virginia, but I grew up next to the West Virginia border, so it was hills and ...
HILARIE BURTON Here's how I've lived my life: I've never been late to a set. I make films I believe in....
TOM CRUISE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you ar...
MAKO I grew up an Indians fan my entire life. I was never really 'against' the Yankees, but I kne...
BILL MAZEROSKI I believe that all men and women will be saved.
PAT BUCKLEY Do I believe in giving up? No, I don't.
DAVID BOREANAZ I never grew up.
TRACEY EMIN Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
PAUL MCCARTNEY I left my frogs, which I had grown, with my supervisor, who had moved to Geneva, and he and a techni...
JOHN GURDON I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.
JANICE DICKINSON My parents emigrated here when I was 5, so this is the city I grew up in.
ARJUN SABLOK Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, ...
DAVID HOCKNEY These folks up there, they all grew up together, ... They grew up playing football together.
KARL JOHNSON And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believ...
HANOI HANNAH I'm happy to be here. I enjoy my job so far and I'm glad to work in the town I grew up in.
ALAN ROGERS I grew up in Brooklyn, and my parents were Holocaust survivors, so they never taught me anything abo...
LOUIE SCHWARTZBERG I grew up thinking Margaret Cho and Lucy Liu were my idols because that's it.
AWKWAFINA There are two smells that I can recognize right away. The smell of the boxing ring and the smell of ...
OLIVIER MARTINEZ The thing that caught my eye were all the casinos, ... I had never seen all that. There were all the...
DAPHNE BROWN I refuse to believe in three things: cash, clock, and calendar. You should never be enslaved by thes...
SHARAD VIVEK SAGAR My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led m...
DIANA ROSS I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
ANITA DIAMENT I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My...
JAKE OWEN I grew up on black sand greens. The best tees were old, dry cowpies, believe it or not.
BILLY CASPER Name me no names for my disease,
With uninforming breath;
I tell you I am none of these, WITTER BYNNER These are good initial steps. I suspect there are more to come.
LINDA KOOP I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit.
TONY GOLDWYN I grew up in an affluent suburban world and never worried about money until I'd grown up and fou...
K. A. APPLEGATE I was here when Rosa Parks started and I just wanted to be here when she departed,
JOSEPH LOWERY I know I've been in motor sport for 46 years and some might think it is time I grew up, but I am sti...
WILLIE GREEN My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil.
ARTO LINDSAY We were taken to a foster home and my parents were never prosecuted for what they did to us, ... And...
ANGELA SHELTON My war buddies, some were Americans, but some were Afghans. These were the guys that I fought alongs...
ELLIOT ACKERMAN The Parks Department does not maintain our parks, and now they want to spend all of this money to re...
JOYCE HOGI I believe in these guys, and I believe if you stay the course you get paid dividends. I believe it's...
TERRY FRANCONA I used to dress up in my mom's old clothes and play with these kids from the neighbourhood and m...
HEATHER GRAHAM I guess I envision myself as a portfolio manager, and these two portions of my portfolio were not li...
JEFF WOLFE Since I grew up, I have never deliberately used any technique at all other than the physical shaping...
PATRICK O'BRIAN These things go in cycles, they do at all schools ... and I think West can go up. Gary Johnson did a...
MICKEY DELAMAR Here I am at these crossroads again,
wondering what will never become of me.
Now and then,...
JEROD MANKIN British authorities have assured us that they will take the necessary steps to address the threat po...
FLEX PLEXICO I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscio...
DAVE EGGERS All these plans for testing sound great, but until we actually see someone doing something, it doesn...
IAN WHITE My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers - we grew up on the s...
FLORENCE WELCH I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students....
ANDREW SHUE hooh this is such butleg i cant believe it
DUK ONCH I was especially fond of animals, and was indulged by my parents with a great variety of pets. With ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Rearrange these words into a sentence: 'Tony and Gary are morons witless?.
CAROLINE QUENTIN I grew up in a bustling household of women with my mom, granny, and aunts. Seeing all these strong w...
TWINKLE KHANNA You don't look for these things to happen in Park Hills, but in today's world, it's here,
RICK SMITH Seriously, I grew up a fan of Hulk Hogan, and I think I bring some of his best values to the ring......
JOHN CENA I know for a fact we get...some of these folks up here get flooded and shut off.
FRED COLE I don't believe these numbers.
WILLIAM JUSTEN I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'...
EMO PHILIPS I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.
BUZZ ALDRIN I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could wal...
GREGORY HINES We grew up with some of these sons of notorious wise guys. We saw how they were frustrated.
DAVID LEVIEN I grew up singing a lot of Martina McBride, Shania and LeAnn Rimes, and because of my age, those wer...
CASSADEE POPE I have a deep tribal sense. I grew up in a synagogue that my ancestors built. I sat in the third row...
LEONARD COHEN I look forward to getting Gary down here.
BOB MCNAIR I think that kids need to grow up watching what I grew up watching - great entertainment; you know, ...
TAMMY BLANCHARD It's where I love to be. These are my brothers out here.
JOSH JONES I grew up here, so I know Bedford needs something like this.
DAVID KOPP My wife noticed that I wrote really good complaint letters about faulty products and that I could ge...
BRIAN HERBERT I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll n...
YOUNG JEEZY

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GARY SHTEYNGART I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do ...
GARY SHTEYNGART I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who re...
GARY SHTEYNGART I took an acting class with Louise Lasser, Woody Allen's first wife and co-star in many movies. ...
GARY SHTEYNGART American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.
GARY SHTEYNGART Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so importa...
GARY SHTEYNGART I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both t...
GARY SHTEYNGART If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
GARY SHTEYNGART That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my mult...
GARY SHTEYNGART I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pret...
GARY SHTEYNGART A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it...
GARY SHTEYNGART I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them se...
GARY SHTEYNGART In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, ...
GARY SHTEYNGART I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.
GARY SHTEYNGART I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We'...
GARY SHTEYNGART I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbeli...
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