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“I was a mostly happy child, though I had a pretty rough puberty. Growing up as a girl is always traumatizing, especially when you have the deadly combination of greasy skin and getting your boobs at ten. But I think it's good to grow up that way. It builds character.”
Tina Fey
“When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body.”
Heather Locklear
“Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.”
Sylvia Plath
“That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.”
Johnny Cash
“In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock (Westminster Chimes) will hear the tune over a million times.”
Dudley Moore
“When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.”
Diane Arbus
“Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.”
Walt Disney
“I don't think about that, ... I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day 'I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.”
Adam Sandler
“I was pretty much a dork growing up. Going up in front of a crowd and being an idiot was a relief when I was a kid. But talking to two or three people at once and being myself was impossible. And being myself while singing a song was more than impossible; I would've rather died. I get really nervous and tend to want to be an idiot.”
Ben Folds
“The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.”
Lao Tzu
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