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Distance makes the heart grow fonder, a little bit, but there's a certain maturity level that just comes with experience and growing up. -- Brendan Fehr
My experiences growing up in both a Chinese American household and the Catholic Church define much of who I am. -- Gene Luen Yang
I grew up abroad, so I would love to have my child grow up the same way and experience the world. -- Cris Judd
Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth, and development. -- Lucille Roybal-Allard
My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience. -- Nicholas A. Christakis
I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences. -- Tom Perrotta
The black community sees itself as one group, and they are all experiencing the same experiences as a group with racism and whatnot, growing up in this country. -- Andrea Navedo
It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible. -- Warren Farrell
What's really great about Buddhism is its rational, informal quality. Coming from my experience of growing up a Catholic, I found Buddhism to be refreshingly easygoing and forgiving. -- Matt Dillon
Every child is so different. Their experience growing up and their experience relating to the world has so much to do with their temperament, and their likes and their dislikes. -- Julianne Moore
Visits to 'the country' were very important to me growing up, especially working on the farm, experiencing all the wonders of cats and chickens and pigs and calves and outhouses! -- Trina Paulus
Ghoul' was what my world looked like, growing up in the late Seventies and early Eighties, and what I thought it looked like. A lot of my personal experiences went into it. -- Brian Keene
I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations. -- Marlee Matlin
My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway. -- Joanna Trollope
I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me. -- Herb Ritts
A lot of what I experienced growing up in the U.S.S.R. and coming to the U.S. as an immigrant actually reflects itself in Whatsapp. Experiences from our youth shape what we do later in life. -- Jan Koum
I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin. -- Jane Campion
The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience. -- Hugh Mackay
My kids will grow up in a house knowing that it's perfectly normal for two men to be in love, it's perfectly normal for two women to be in love. My kids will grow up knowing it's all about love. It doesn't matter who you're with and everyone should have that experience. -- Tori Spelling
Growing up as an Asian American in this society, there were a lot of times where you feel isolated or out of place as an Asian. And growing up in White America, that's absolutely my experience. And I think that's why I got into acting because I wanted to be anybody else but Asian. -- Ming-Na Wen
I talk to our kids now that they are grown up, and I ask them about the experiences that had growing up that really had a powerful influence on the way they view the purpose of life. The experiences that really shaped their values - my wife and I have no memory of those experiences! -- Clayton Christensen
Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion. -- John Cale
The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music. -- Amy Grant
My experience in growing up in Scientology is that it is both mentally and at times physically abusive, -- Jenna Miscavige Hill
Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares. -- Doris Lessing
I was homeschooled growing up, and we fantasized about high school, about what that experience was going to be like. -- Vanessa Ray
I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up. -- Eden Sher
Growing up in Michigan, I can't think of anything so explicitly communicated to me in my whole education experience as the vileness of in-your-face racism. -- Kevin DeYoung
Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad. -- Abel Korzeniowski

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