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For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.

John Cleese

God

The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats.

John Cleese

Growing up

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

Beverly Cleary

Children

Growing up

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up.

Absolutely the worst thing about this job is the travel and being away from family. I have a wife and three wonderful children, the kids are all active in sports and it's very difficult to up and leave and miss them growing up.

I can't think of anything specific growing up that pointed me toward NASA at all. I was interested in the Moon landings just about the same as everyone else of my generation. But I never really thought about being an astronaut or working in space myself.

I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.

Madonna Ciccone

Growing up

Wrong

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get made. It's kind of amazing how that one movie kept living through all these years.

That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.

I never listened to country music growing up.