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Growing Up

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Denzel Washington Actor, Director
Growing Up

"I talked to my mother about it a lot. I asked her what it was like to grow up in New York and Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s, and I asked her about a woman leaving her husband. I asked her about how she would feel about that woman, and my mother grew up in the Church Of God In Christ, and she told me that the woman might be isolated because the other women thought she might go and come after their husbands. That's how they thought then."

Mother New York Growing Up
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Deepak Chopra Author, Speaker
Growing Up

"A child in India grows up with the idea that you have to make choices that will create a better future. In fact, your whole life is a continuum of choices, so the more conscious you are, the greater your life will be."

Children Ideas Growing Up
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Chandra Wilson Actress, Director, Producer
Growing Up

"The only thing that I know is that, growing up, I came across stumbling blocks, and I always said to myself, 'If I ever get into a position to do something about this, I would like to, so that somebody does not deal with what I went through."

Doe Growing Up Block
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Charles Dickens Novelist
Growing Up

"He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone quite path-for him. ~ Stephen speaking of Rachael"

Children Girl Growing Up
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Cheryl Strayed Author, Memoirist
Growing Up

"Of course some people manage to write books really young and publish really young. But for most writers, it takes several years because you have to apprentice yourself to the craft, and you also have to grow up. I think maturity is connected to one's ability to write well."

Writing Book Growing Up
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Chris Rock Comedian, Actor, Writer
Growing Up

"I'm old enough to remember when there were no black quarterbacks - there were no blacks on TV. I hope my son or daughter doesn't have to be as fixated on race as I am, because he or she will grow up in freer times."

Growing Up Son Daughter
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Chris Rock Comedian, Actor, Writer
Growing Up

"Guys play characters that won't grow up and something catastrophic happens and they have to grow up to save the day - that's pretty much what today's comedy is about."

Character Play Growing Up
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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
Growing Up

"It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten."

Children Growing Up Revenge
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Coco Lee Singer, Actress
Growing Up

"My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard."

Growing Up Mom Hard Work
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Growing Up

"Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel."

Writing Book Growing Up
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Cornel West Philosopher
Growing Up

"Most importantly for me growing up, it was a spirituals, it was a gospels, it was James Cleveland, Aretha Franklin, Marion Williams; and then it was Curtis Mayfield - The Main Ingredient, The Whispers, Black Blue Magic, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Luther Vandross - that music helped me preserves my sanity, help me preserve whatever dignity I was able to preserve, helping to keep going. It was a source of tremendous strength in my life."

Growing Up Black Blue
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Clint Eastwood Actor, Director, Producer
Growing Up

"I just kind of had my own impressions growing up with Hoover as a heroic figure in the 40s - actually the 30s, 40s, and 50s and beyond - but this was all prior to the information age so we didn't know about Hoover except what was usually in the papers, and this was fun, because this was a chance to go into it [ during filming 'J. Edgar Hoover' ]"

Fun Age Growing Up
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Growing Up

"I hated the idea of a high school sweetheart. Growing up, oh my God, it just made me sick. I wanted to have a range of cool boyfriends. I wanted to travel around and date these interesting men. Then it just happened. You fall in love."

School Growing Up Falling In Love
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Beth Grant Actress
Growing Up

"I like the line leading up to that: "I made your daughter the lead dancer, and you're not committed!" It's how people in their own little narrow worlds get so bent out of shape over the silliest things. I've seen it all my life, especially growing up in the South - the tempest in a teapot."

People Growing Up Daughter
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