Rihanna quote: "Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines."

I was a big disco-dancing child really. My friend and I were constantly making up routines and fling...
KATE BECKINSALE

I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-dist...
DAVID HAREWOOD

I have maintained a low profile throughout my career but have always done things in my own unique wa...
MITHUN CHAKRABORTY

Growing up in New York City, my car culture is minimal. I rode on the train, the bus. I walked; I ro...
RAMON RODRIGUEZ

Acting is my number one, but dancing will always be a part of who I am and in my heart. I love doing...
CAITY LOTZ

The college coaches said I was going sideways with my shot. I worked hard on straightening it out th...
CEOLA CLARK

My mother worked when I was growing up, so I was under the impression I'd find it easy to be a w...
ISLA FISHER

When I was growing up, I said to my ex-girlfriend, 'I will not be successful until everyone in H...
AFROJACK

I toured with Lady Gaga, and her choreographer is incredibly talented and develops some crazy routin...
CAITY LOTZ

I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time....
TWYLA THARP

My parents always say I have really good legs. I've worked really hard for them. They always ins...
SAMAIRE ARMSTRONG

My training has always been really tough. I've always worked hard. I've always been very com...
DANIEL CORMIER

It's something that was a part of my growing up and my childhood, ... I loved the hall.
TAMMY WYNETTE

By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of...
JAMES H. DOUGLAS, JR.

When I was really young, I shot a lot with my Super 8.
DANNY HUSTON

I've been dancing around since I was a baby. When I am sitting around, I'm always dancing in my mind...
JAIMIE KNITTLE

I just stuck with my game plan. Every shot was perfect, I guess.
BROCK WAUGHEN

When I was 5 years old, I saw people dancing in my head. In college, I would choreograph for the cul...
PAYAL KADAKIA

Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer.
GAL GADOT

My problem is that I think everybody needs to work as hard as I worked when I was in my prime.
RIC FLAIR

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
DOROTHY ALLISON

I was disappointed in my tee shot because it was into the wind and when I started the first hole, th...
SARAH LEE

My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a...
WINONA RYDER

I started with golf because I saw my brothers play, I was always watching them. It was my life. Grow...
LEXI THOMPSON

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ISABEL GILLIES

On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. An...
FEIST

I was a big fan of Aaliyah's. Growing up, my mom was a big fan of her music. When I grew to have...
ALEXANDRA SHIPP

The idea of community and helping others has always been a part of who I am. Growing up, my parents ...
BLAKE MYCOSKIE

My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe...
JOHNNY CASH

Growing up, I was always in my high school musicals and everything, but I kind of stopped doing all ...
MALLORY JANSEN

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MY TEACHER

We shot the video for 'Broken' where both my parents grew up. There was always a strong sens...
PATTY SMYTH

I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.
AMY SEDARIS

I love video games. When I was growing up, video games were very important to me.
BEN SCHWARTZ

Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping...
JAMES LECESNE

I was always dancing and acrobatics was my specialty.
BETSEY JOHNSON

My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to stud...
COCO LEE

I think you earn what you get out of life. I've always worked hard I was working hard in my dad's...
MAVERICK GOLDEN

I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven't got the greatest singing voice and my d...
RUTH WILSON

Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always ca...
DAVID GRANN

My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe...
JOHNNY CASH

My world was small growing up. I never really left the three-mile radius of my tiny neighborhood in ...
BRIAN GRAZER

I always wanted to write for children. When I was growing up, we were really poor. My mother had lef...
JEWELL PARKER RHODES

It was hard to move ahead career-wise when my children were younger. I worked part-time. When I went...
LISA ROSE

I really thought, with my background growing up, and my service, and all that, I thought it would be...
BOB DOLE

I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life gro...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

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GUY FIERI

I lived with my auntie and my cousin when I was growing up, and they always wore black, and I though...
ROMY MADLEY CROFT

When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engine...
WILL SMITH

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DAVID NUUHIWA

My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing i...
ZACH ROERIG

Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.
TAHJ MOWRY

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KATEY SAGAL

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BILL GATES

That was a highlight of my coaching career. It was an enjoyable experience. He was always a gym rat ...
KREG KLAVER

My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, w...
JOHN BOEHNER

I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
GARRETT CLAYTON

I have always passed the ball and worked on that part of my game.
JAMIE REDKNAPP

I remember my first actor that I really, really fell in love with was Tom Hanks. I suppose when I wa...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER

When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all...
MARLO THOMAS

I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when g...
AL FRANKEN

I loved being a redhead! I always wanted to try it. I was obsessed with Lucille Ball growing up. I r...
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

I was depressed as a child. I found it hard to make friends. My favourite thing was locking myself i...
DAVID WALLIAMS

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SAM BARRY

When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical natur...
TIM BURTON

Growing up, softball was always my second sport. I decided at the last second to play.
KATIE MITCHELL

Yes, I was slightly outside everything when I was growing up. My mother jokes that I was exchanged a...
JANET MCTEER

I'm trying to get a lower center of gravity. I think, when I play at a lower level, it helps my ...
KLAY THOMPSON

Growing up in Beirut, I used to go to the souks with my mother to buy fabrics... I understood fashio...
REEM ACRA

I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the wor...
YO-YO MA

I really wanted to go abroad to South Korea, the country of my heritage, in order to increase my flu...
GLORIA LEE

I would do musicals in high school where there was dancing, and I would sing my verse, and then they...
BETTY GILPIN

I have always loved the game, ever since those days playing in my aunt's yard. I grew up idolizing M...
BRENDA JACKSON

I was always blessed growing up with opportunities and access to facilities, equipment, and playing ...
ROB GRONKOWSKI

When I was growing up, my stepmother's sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining to...
KARIN SLAUGHTER

Although we didn't have much when I was growing up in Split, Croatia, my parents always tried to...
GORAN IVANISEVIC

When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the ot...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditionin...
HANNAH SIMONE

I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.
NAOMIE HARRIS

When I started, I was doing all the good comedians I'd ever seen. Then I developed my own voice....
BOB NEWHART

When I was growing up, kids wouldn't come out to my place because I was too far out in the country.
DAVE BLACK

Growing up, you always want to hang with your dad - go fishing or whatever. But my dad was always wo...
VICTOR OLADIPO

There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up - my dad played, and I thought it was co...
LAURA MVULA

Dance kind of was always just a part of my natural state as a child. It's something that, whenev...
MISTY COPELAND

When I was in high school, my mom worked at Bed, Bath and Beyond, so I was always there.
ABBI JACOBSON

My initial introduction to him was - this is a funny story... My Aunt Marian, my entire life growing...
ROB MCCLURE

Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the rad...
ICE T

We watched a lot of Hong Kong action movies in my house when I was growing up.
BENEDICT WONG

I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.
J. COLE

When I was growing up I always wanted to be a waitress. My sister opened a restaurant in Mississippi...
LACEY CHABERT

Money was always on my mind when I was growing up. So I was always wondering how we were going to af...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO

When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally ev...
STEVE MARTIN

I was always scheduled to be done Friday. I missed my two girls growing up, so if I have it in my co...
JOE MONTANA

I didn't get to play many video games when I was growing up.
ANA DE ARMAS

When I was growing up, he was my favorite. It's weird if I get to meet him.
ROBERT ANDINO

The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my ...
TAMMY BLANCHARD

When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek ...
CAT CORA

My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.
MALLORY JANSEN

It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was ...
CALISTA FLOCKHART

I was lucky enough to spend some of my school days in Barbados, where my father was working, and thi...
PETER MAYLE

Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines.

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Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines.

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