Growing up, I played softball and I was a cheerleader.
Growing up, I remember the 'Cheers' finale and 'M*A*S*H' and all these amazing finales, and I remember them being very, very important.
When I was growing up, I didn't like cheese. I had to wean myself onto cheese.
When I was a kid growing up, we had a cherry tree in the backyard, 100 years old. I climbed it, and it gave shade in the summertime and excellent cherries in the late summer. Having cherry blossoms around gives the best springtime vibe ever.
Growing up in bars might sound like child abuse. And if it does, then you're what my mom would call 'Protestants.'
When I was growing up, the Spanish-speaking world was Balkanized. We were isolated. We didn't know what was happening in cultural terms in Ecuador, Colombia and Chile. Nowadays, this has changed a lot - fortunately for writers and readers. There is much more integration.
I spent quite a bit of time in choirs, growing up, and in the world-touring music group Anuna.
I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.
Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer.
Growing up, I was always chubby. My girlfriends were always running around in two-pieces, and I never felt comfortable to do that.
When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.
Film schools didn't exist when I was growing up. I learned by working with clever people. Good writers and cinematographers.
I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.
I had a lot of difficulty growing up in a society where everything is very closed-minded, especially with beauty.
I never had a sister growing up. Donny was the closest thing.
As a young queer kid growing up, I explored my identity through the Chicago and Washington, D.C., club scene.
I had a Super Grover doll growing up. Super Grover was very clumsy, he wasn't very good-looking. But in his own way he'd always save the day.
Growing up in the Bay, I was still looking for a lot of East Coast hip-hop. I had an older homie put me on to a lot of stuff like Nas' 'Illmatic.'
There was always Helmut Newton coffee table books around when I was growing up.
Juanes is one of the legendary, iconic Colombian artists. Growing up in Colombia, you can't really not have him on your radar. His songs are everywhere, and there's a statue of him. He's pretty big for Latin America, and for Colombia especially.
