"Watching children grow up, you learn a lot about life and about being a better person - you learn a lot about what's really important in the world and what isn't."
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"The reason we grow up to be healthy adults is because our parents played this game of giving us responsibility, disciplining us when necessary, letting us try, letting us fail. No matter what we know they are there to support us and see us do well. Leaders are exactly the same."
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"Our moral imperative is to work with all our powers for that day when the children of the world grow up without the fear of nuclear war."
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"Growing up on the border there, we were always frustrated with people's pronunciations of towns in Michigan, and people mispronouncing Illinois. There are all these Native American words that no one really knows how to pronounce."
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"There's a lot of actors I think that appear so much more together as the characters they portray as opposed to the actual people, so I know I've said this before: Hollywood's not a place where you're rewarded for growing up."
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"I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical."
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"To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer; your dreams have come true.' But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they're true."
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"I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house."
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"Hip-hop is the fountain of youth. You just don't grow up if you were there. My son's 20. I'm on the same channel he's on. We wear the same clothes, we feel the same thing. It's a weird, weird generation we're in right now."
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"I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head."
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"It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens."
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"Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author."
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"Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there."
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"Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor."
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"I can't stop watching 'Pan Am.' When I was growing up, my father worked as an engineer in Turkey, and we always flew Pan Am. The stewardesses were so glamorous! When they gave me a set of those golden wings, I felt very grown-up. Not only is the show's plot full of mystery and infidelity, they get the period details just right."
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"I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?"
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"I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up."
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"I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life, a new personality. I guess it's part of growing up; it's also an attempt to reinvent myself."
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"I was able to grow up and do silly things and have a life with only a small amount of public scrutiny."
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"When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way."
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