I grew up listening to old soul.

My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don’t know what it’s like to yearn for the big city from a small town.

I grew up writing about the paranormal, and I blame too many Saturday mornings watching ‘Scooby Doo.’

I grew up as an only child.

Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably doesn’t know about it, except that in Massachusetts, you do,...

I grew so depressed from the lack of support that I considered quitting. No one understood me.

I just coach the way I was coached when I was young, in my formative years. I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.

I grew up in a very Catholic household. We were pretty conservative.

I grew up in a funny way.

I grew up in New York City. I went to museums so much as a kid, and I guess I didn’t realize how much it affected me.

Wherever a writer grew up, they’re obviously influenced by that area, and I’m sure their characters are pulled from those experiences.

I grew up in wide-open spaces, but they didn’t have the romantic history of the West.

I grew up with reggae music.

I grew up in an inner city neighborhood called the Benson Hurst section of Brooklyn, which was a very embracing, warm, family-type neighborhood.

I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada – timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.

Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese.

I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia.

So to compare the Beatles, obviously the Beatles are the Beatles, but in hip-hop terms, Tribe is the Beatles. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five are the Beatles. Big Daddy Kane is Jimi Hendrix. It...

I grew up loving Walter Payton. My dad used to always show us film of him.

When I got to Hollywood, at first I couldn’t get a lot of jobs. So I grew a beard and look like a really bad Arab, and I started to get a lot of work...

I grew up in a total Pink Floyd house.

I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.

The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It’s in the blood.

II know very, very little about the ukulele, but I actually grew up playing the viola from 4th grade through high school.

If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union is controlling everything and killing people,...

Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid.

I know full well how important women are in diplomacy and development. I grew up with seven sisters.

I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to have everything I couldn’t have when I was young.

I love multi-cam. I grew up in a border town in South Texas right next to Mexico, a million miles away from this world… and to me, multi-cams are just like theater.

I just don’t know when we all decided that if it doesn’t fit in a Happy Meal box, it’s not for kids. I remember flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz, and I grew up...

I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.

I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.

I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and being a fan of what I’d seen portrayed in the movies, and I always wanted...

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made ‘Rush Hour.’ And ‘Rush Hour’ really came out of the fact that I grew up watching ‘Beverly...

I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.

To be honest, I grew up with Alan Menken’s music.

I was a girl from Massapequa, New York. I grew up in Massapequa. I lived in a basement with one window.

Everything I need to know, I learned in Iowa. I grew up here in Iowa.

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.

In kindergarten I had to draw a picture of what I wanted to be when I grew up. I drew a rapper. I didn’t really know what a rapper was or what they did –...

I grew up beyond proud – we didn’t have much, but we had a lot of love.

I grew up eating street tacos and burritos on the beach, so I like people who can eat and aren’t afraid to show it.

I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique – you didn’t see that as a job description anywhere.

My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.

America has given me everything Australia couldn’t. I grew up on a dairy farm. Now I live in Isleworth, a gated community in Orlando with Tiger Woods down the street.

I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.

I grew up very comfortable in this bizarre, circus-like existence, but, as comfortable as I was, I was also aware of the struggles that actors go through.

I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.