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I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts. -- John Mahoney
Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in Central Africa I read all Haggard's African novels. -- Wilbur Smith
My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula. -- J. C. Watts
When I realised I wasn't Michael Jackson and I was this 10 year old boy growing up in the suburbs, I was devastated -- Darren Hayes
Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in Central Africa I read all Haggard's African novels. -- Wilbur Smith
I first became aware of Charles Darwin and evolution while still a schoolboy growing up in Chicago. My father and I had a passion for bird-watching, and when the snow or the rain kept me indoors, I read his bird books and learned about evolution. -- James D. Watson
Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static. -- Said Sayrafiezadeh
Some of the greatest values that have influenced me through the years are those that I learned as a boy growing up on the farm. I remember mostly the love in our family, but I also remember the discipline. Then there was the work; we all had to work. -- Billy Graham
When I grow up I want to be a little boy. -- Joseph Heller
In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president. -- Pat Paulsen
I'm an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen. -- Stephen Moyer
I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up. -- Anthony Hopkins
I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend. -- George Lindsey
If you join the Boy Scouts without understanding the underlying agendas and biases of the organization, you might grow up to believe that being gay is a bad thing. -- Douglas Rushkoff
One of the things about being a boy, especially growing up without a father, is you really don't have that role model to teach you how to do things. -- Art Alexakis
Invisible Boy was fun. Everybody else's character, they knew where they were at already as a superhero. But invisible boy's character, you kind of grow up with him within the movie. -- Kel Mitchell
Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school. -- Alan Moore
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. -- Neil Jordan
There was a boy in my building who was my best friend when I was growing up. There was also a mysterious person on my corner who we called the Laughing Man. -- Rebecca Stead
There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful. -- Doris Lessing
When I was a little kid growing up in Iceland, I always dreamed about creating something that could have an impact on the whole world, and even as a young boy I was passionate about fitness and sports. -- Magnus Scheving
In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy - the dead father is the other vital half: the half that grows the boy up once and for all. -- Michael Leunig
I'm very sensitive. Because my mum was my primary emotional caregiver growing up, I found myself being pinned into dresses, darting her dresses, choosing her high heels for the evening or what to wear. I'm very much a mommy's boy. -- Tom Hardy
You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime. -- George Herman
You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it. -- Buddy Hackett
I was so poor growing up...if I wasn't a boy...I'd have nothing to play with. -- Rodney Dangerfield
What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man. -- Gertrude Stein
A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man. -- Herbert Hoover
I should mention that while I was growing up, Einstein was presented as a worthy role model for a young boy who was good at his studies. -- Sidney Altman

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