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up close when I was in the City Council.
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BILL HUIZENGA 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 was worried the city I grew up in was going to be gone,
ERIC BLOCK
My parents called me their wise little baby. I was mature when I was 4 or 5. My brother and sister w... ANNABETH GISH I grew up here, so I know Bedford needs something like this.
DAVID KOPP I grew up believing that my parents helped change the world. I was so in awe of them, and I wondered...
TANANARIVE DUE I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west si...
KELLI O'HARA
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CLAUDIA HIRT I grew up in Champaign, so this is very near the land of my people, ... Restless.
ALISON KRAUSS As a child, I was spoilt by my parents as an only son. They indulged my every whim, and I grew up in...
ASIF ALI ZARDARI Had my grandparents not emigrated when they did, I might have been born Jewish in Eastern Europe dur...
CAROLE KING My family were Conservative Jews. My parents were both born in this country, but my father grew up o...
NORMAN LLOYD I grew up as an only child with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father h...
MONA SIMPSON
So many people grew up in the church, and you can have an awesome upbringing, but I made a personal ... AJ MICHALKA My mother was Irish; she had this great sense of humor, and both my parents loved films. There was a...
MARTIN DONOVAN I grew up in Worcester, and we never thought twice about the Blackstone. It was something south of t...
DONNA WILLIAMS When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I w...
PATRICK CHAN My mother was 13 when I was born. My childhood was pretty frantic, to say the least. My mother left ...
GEORGIA HOLT
I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a ... WILLIAM GIBSON When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parent...
LAURA RICKETTS Actually I was born in 1940 in Blackpool because my family lived in Manchester but Manchester was be...
JOHN MAHONEY 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've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Nort...
DAN CHAON I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit.
TONY GOLDWYN
My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I... DANIEL RADCLIFFE
Even though I grew up two hours south, I had rarely ventured to Los Angeles. I soon learned that my ... JUSTIN HALPERN I was an infant when I was living in Canada, but when I was adopted, I was a baby, so I grew up in M...
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE
I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and h... E. L. KONIGSBURG I grew up in Florida in different cities. I was born in Mississippi. My parents moved a lot, so I mo...
DIPLO One of my sisters is physically and mentally handicapped. She took a lot of my parents' attentio...
ALEX KINGSTON
I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-dist... DAVID HAREWOOD When I was about 14, my family emigrated from England to Australia, and we decided to stop in Bali o...
NAOMI WATTS I was a goodie-good kid; my parents both worked for the First Methodist Church in Lubbock. My father...
BOB LIVINGSTON I was born in New York City but grew up across the Hudson River in Alpine, New Jersey.
ERIC MASKIN
I was born in a little town called Lund in British Columbia. It's like a fishing village. My par... STEWART BUTTERFIELD
I grew up in a Christian home with amazing parents. ALLYSON FELIX
When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware. ELIZABETH MOON I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church.
QUINTON AARON I got drunk in front of my parents when I was 13. I don't see the big deal about drinking here.
LUCAS SUMANTRI
I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me ... ADRIEN BRODY Mike and I never won a state championship (in high school), but we'll take this. We grew up together...
LUCAS HARGROVE
I grew up in Baltimore, which is, you know, a city of extremes certainly, but my parents were very c... JOHN WATERS I was born here in the States. I moved to Portugal when I was five. And then my parents put me in an...
DANIELA RUAH My parents grew up during the Harlem renaissance.
TAJ MAHAL
I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world a... M. J. ROSE
Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in Ne... H. G. BISSINGER
I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not ex... CAMILA ALVES My parents have enough sleepless nights as it is when I wind up in a hurricane, ... I called when I ...
DAVE PRICE
I grew up mostly in Germany, but my favorite summer trip was driving from North Carolina to Texas in... MICHAEL STRAHAN Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best ...
ROBERT BALLARD I'm very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16, then I ...
BETTY WHO
My parents, of Belgian-German extraction, were Belgian nationals who had taken refuge in England dur... CHRISTIAN DE DUVE I grew up with my parents in the kitchen discussing the audition my dad had that day or moaning abou...
BEL POWLEY
A lot of my personality was informed by feeling very different in the world I grew up in, feeling th... JHUMPA LAHIRI
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays. BETH HENLEY I'm a product of public housing. My parents grew up poor, but their dream was to own a home.
GREGORY MEEKS
I grew up in New York City, and I'm a city boy, born and bred. BEN SCHNETZER
I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, a... FEISAL ABDUL RAUF
When I grew up there was no web, blogging or tweeting. In fact, where I grew up there was not even t... INDRA NOOYI
I moved to New York when I was 15, but my parents lived nearby in Connecticut, so I could go be in t... DAVID LACHAPELLE I grew up in the East Village, in Alphabet City, when it was a very dangerous neighborhood. To survi...
JOSH PAIS I grew up in an international school community my whole life, and my national identity is very confu...
SOPHIE HAWLEY-WELD The Indians were so pleased to be here. Many would just look at the environment and smile. This is t...
ARJUN SABLOK I really felt that Indian audiences would be ready for a feature like this one. There are now many I...
ARJUN SABLOK
I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop. ADAM SANDLER
At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone sa... TANITH LEE
I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible... LADY GAGA I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces.
MELISSA AUF DER MAUR I grew up in Brooklyn, and my parents were Holocaust survivors, so they never taught me anything abo...
LOUIE SCHWARTZBERG I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole worl...
LARRY CHARLES I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its pro...
ELEANOR CATTON I grew up and I was weaned on the Marx Brothers. They were sort of my all-time favorite. My parents ...
JOSHUA MALINA
My mom grew up in Idaho, went to Brigham Young University: they're very Molly Mormon. And my fat... ELIZA DUSHKU
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to ... JOHN LENNON
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to ... JOHN LENNON When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contac...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO
When I was just a twenty-something, I came to Newark, and I found a connection to the city in a spir... CORY BOOKER I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.
DANNY BOYLE
I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here. S. E. HINTON This is where I scribbled on the walls when I was little. This is where I took my first steps. All t...
SAMANTHA PEREZ I grew up in Washington State and then eventually found my way back to Iowa City for grad school.
CHELSEA CAIN
Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and ... JESSE MCCARTNEY
When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best. IRINA SHAYK
My parents split up when I was 3 years old, and I lived with my mother. GARCELLE BEAUVAIS
When I was a kid, everything was so unplanned, my parents were so erratic, and my world was so incon... DREW BARRYMORE
You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, ... JACQUES PEPIN I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, ...
JEFF ABBOTT
I grew up in the large house and the larger garden of my parents in Altenberg. They were supremely t... KONRAD LORENZ My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the ...
MADI DIAZ I grew up on this lake. It's in my blood.
PETER MEHLER
up close when I was in the City Council. ANTHONY WEINER I grew up in the city. Both my mother and father were factory workers, and I loved the life in the &...
PER PETTERSON I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York...
BILLY EICHNER
Filmmaking as a process, it's bittersweet. 
I can bulk up very fast. I can lift heavy weights because, like most people, I started off with heav... 
I didn't even know I would be an actor; I always wanted to be a cameraman. 
I have grown up watching Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Dev Anand, Amitabh Bachchan and the likes. These ... 
I believe that fitness needs to come from within you. You need to respect your body. Only then will ... 
I assisted on a lot of films outside my dad's company. I only did two of his films. 