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I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.
Christopher Walken

Business, Movies, Show

You know, I left the country when Reagan got in; I went to France. And when George Bush Jr. got in, my instincts told me it was time to go - I'd felt that we had grown above that, you know?
Tommy Chong

Time, Country, Left

I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job.
Robert Smith

I never wear makeup when I'm not at work. It can make you forget what you look like, and I've grown to really love the way I look without it.
Leighton Meester

Love, Work, Forget

With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.
Laura Linney

School, Pain, Character

I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama.
Lorna Luft

Life, Living, High

In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.
Jane Smiley

Love, Marriage, Once

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.
Zac Efron

Life, Learned, Valuable

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.
Anna Deavere Smith

Work, Freedom, Path

As much as I want to go out and tour every single day and I'm ready to rip it right now, there's five people in the band, there's five people who've evolved and grown and there's five people who have to get on the same page and want the same things, and it takes a lot to tour.
Fred Durst

Single, Same, Band

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
Samuel Daniel

Greatest, Adversity, Fair

It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.
Mary Pickford

Around, Silent, Pictures

I think every relationship has a point where you stop and reevaluate. Are you happy? Have you grown together or apart? What do you share interests in? I think that's a normal thing to do, but it's so much harder when it's done publicly.
Courteney Cox

Happy, Done, Together

One of the few ways in which I feel I've actually matured is that as I've grown older I do find the concept of 'men' mystifying, whereas when I was a feisty young thing I was forever saying 'The most fun part of being a feminist is frightening men!'
Julie Burchill

Men, Fun, Saying

It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
Franklin P. Jones

Fear, Long, May

The fact that my grown kids like to hang out with me, I mean, it just - I don't think it really can get any better than that, I don't think.
Roseanne Barr

Mean, Kids, Fact

I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much.
Ricky Williams

Travel, Football, Person

Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.
Iain Duncan Smith

School, Live, Broken

Nobody took me too seriously but I was grown up even as a baby.
Sharon Stone

Baby, Seriously, Nobody

For years, we've grown dependant on American consumers as the world's spenders of last resort. They've kept Europe out of recession, allowed China to industrialise, and prevented global deflation. But at the same time, they've not been looking after their own futures.
Evan Davis

Time, After, Same

Games have grown and developed from this limited in-the-box experience to something that's everywhere now. Interactive content is all around us, networked, ready. This is something I've been hoping for throughout my career.
Shigeru Miyamoto

Experience, Career, Around

Because I am a horrible flincher, contact lenses are not an option. I'm always envious of contact-wearers. There are endless reasons to take off one's glasses during the day and, as I have grown older, what I don't see has become increasingly pronounced.
Sloane Crosley

Become, Off, Older

Hanson has rapid female fans, which I'm completely proud of, but a lot of fans are a contingent that have grown up with us really - our peers. There's younger fans. More and more guys are Hanson fans, musicians or kind of guys who were into a Beatles record.
Taylor Hanson

Proud, Musicians, Guys

You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
Nikolai Gogol

Stupid, Whole, Imagine

My children are grown now, they are more independent.
Vanessa Paradis

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.
Cat Deeley

Famous, Perception, Changed

I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
Rachel McAdams

Life, Love, Romantic

I'm too young at 50. I'm not grown up yet. There's part of everybody like that.
Julie Walters

Young, Everybody

I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.
Julie Walters

Funny, Women, Child

For me, 'I Am Woman' is all about transition. I turned 21 in December, so I'm not completely grown up yet but I'm not a little girl anymore. Just in that in-between stage. The song is everything I have ever heard a woman say. I loved this song for me and every young lady, girl and woman to be able to feel empowered in being female.
Jordin Sparks

Girl, Woman, Young

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