I grew up speaking English and Punjabi. Just living and working in Punjab and smelling the early morning air and sitting down and having paranthas and lassi and all that was marvellous.
I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.
Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.
I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there.
Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds.
I grew up in London under Thatcher and that really was disgusting. A feeding frenzy.
When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.
I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.
I'm a child of the '60s, I came of age then. I went to a couple of demonstrations, and then in the late '60s when the Vietnam anti-war movement grew as the Vietnam War was heating up, I became very involved in that.
I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.
Right now I have more confidence in myself. I grew up.
This will sound like I grew up on another planet, except for those people who are past 55, 60 maybe. When I was growing up, my mother and her generation basically felt that you should only work as a way of passing time until you got married and had at least two children. And the only careers that were open for women at the time was teacher or nurse - which are fantastic careers, I mean fantastic and I actually am a former math teacher.
I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford.
I grew up like a boy, also because most of the children who came to our house were boys.
I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.
I think it's a combination of my peoples that I grew up under, places that I hung out is what contributed to where I'm at now.
I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
I mean, I grew up an athlete training and training and training. So I kind of have that mentality.
The contradiction [trying to use Russian model to reshape Italy] grew to such an extent that I felt totally cut off from the communist world and, in the end, from politics. That was fortunate. The idea of putting literature in second place, after politics, is an enormous mistake, because politics almost never achieves its ideals.