Tess Gerritsen
Related I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was... FKA TWIGS RICHARD YATES People are like, 'Was it hard growing up mixed?' 'Did you not fit in?' and I'm l... LAURA HARRIER TESS GERRITSEN MAYA LIN I grew up an only child, and I always felt as if I didn't fit in. In middle school, in grammar s... SHANICE WILLIAMS Growing up as an Asian American in this society, there were a lot of times where you feel isolated o... MING-NA WEN I was born in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1948 but grew up in a black neighborhood. During elem... LAURENCE YEP Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument. LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ... LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w... LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t... LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start. LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec... LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said. LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said. LIKE I Married to the Mob. LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge. LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i... LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick? LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said. LIKE I When I was growing up, Asians were so few and far between as to be almost invisible. And so the idea... GRACE LEE BOGGS I always felt like an outsider growing up. In school, I felt like I never fit in. But it didn't ... MARGARET CHO KIRSTEN DUNST MATT CAMERON I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never l... MAGDA APANOWICZ MADONNA CICCONE I was always very physical, growing up, and did sports. I like to get out and do different things, a... EMILY BETT RICKARDS I was really heavy growing up, so it was never feeling like the pretty girl, never being popular. ELLE VARNER HALLE BERRY LILLY SINGH I'm so happy in the projects that I'm able to make, to be involved in projects like this. Th... JENNIFER CONNELLY I like having black hair. When I was really young, I wanted to be Asian - Asian hair is beautiful. I... PAULEY PERRETTE You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I ne... EMILY RIOS Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX -... VIC FUENTES Maybe all teenagers feel like they don't fit in. I never felt like a cool kid. I remember being ... RUTH OZEKI JENNY SLATE FRANK OCEAN RIHANNA I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face th... YUNJIN KIM JAMES CORDEN I never thought about how I didn't have a cell phone or I'm in 2011. I was just so happy to ... BERENICE BEJO SHAY MITCHELL I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be... LANDON LIBOIRON ELLEN DEGENERES Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're ... WENDI MCLENDON-COVEY I'd like to personally thank the audience in San Diego for your understanding and the respect you di... NINE INCH NAILS When I went to San Diego State (and walked on to the football program), never in my wildest dreams d... CHESTER PITTS LAUREN BACALL LEA MICHELE LILLY SINGH At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and beco... ROY HARPER ZOOEY DESCHANEL When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it woul... RICK DANKO MAISIE WILLIAMS Was this, I wondered, what it felt like to be a grown up? Did you always feel the weight of things o... CHRISTINA HENRY HEATH LEDGER ANDY WARHOL IRIS APFEL As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father ... EUGENE JARECKI When I was a little girl at school, I really wanted to be Katie or Sarah or Sophie. When you're ... VIVA BIANCA My studio's always in my house. I want to wake up and be like, 'You know I'm gonna make ... BENNY BLANCO I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war... M.I.A. I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and t... ED SPELEERS I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so m... IRELAND BALDWIN I remember, especially like when I was in high school, going to see like Dawn of the Dead and it was... ROB ZOMBIE I have sisters who act, and I'd always seen it as their thing. I was never in the school plays l... GABRIELLA WILDE I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditiona... EDEN SHER MARY BALOGH The first time I had a baked potato, I was eight years old at a friend's house. Most white kids ... SCOTT FUJITA MARA WILSON I love singing and performing. I'm always singing. Even if I'm at school or in the car, I... CAITLIN HALE I went to dance class as a girl because I didn't like sports, but I never did a dance recital in... JENNIFER GREY I was born in San Francisco. I was raised in Oakland, so I'm, like, super Bay Area born, and, yo... KREAYSHAWN Over the years most of my peers had come to hate me—I never understood why. I guess I was just dif... SOL LUCKMAN It was so cool to see those young girls after I won, ... Hopefully, people like me can open doors fo... KATHERINE LEGGE NICOLE POLIZZI ROBERT BURNS AMY SEDARIS AJ LEE I was a huge 'Deadwood' fan because I'm a huge David Milch fan, so I've always wante... EMILY ROSE Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see thingsE.J. PATTEN RICHARD BRANSON KERRY WASHINGTON J. COLE I didn't go to drama school, so I feel like I did all my growing up on 'Hollyoaks.' NATHALIE EMMANUEL PETER CAPALDI ABRAHAM MASLOW CHARLES BUKOWSKI CHARLIE PUTH JOYCE MEYER And I can relate to that, because I went to an all white school, so I knew what that was like. And i... RACHEL TRUE I'm not talking about Russia in my music. I've never been to Russia. I'm not talking abo... NAS ARCHIE PANJABI BJORK OLIVIA COLMAN I could be playing high school until I'm, like, 30 or something, at the rate I'm growing. DANIELLE PANABAKER
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