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Winona Ryder

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RYAN PHILLIPPE I don't really want to make this sound depressing, but I will say that I didn't really have ...
BEBE REXHA I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was ...
EARL MONROE I have twins that I didn't want to have the life that I had. I didn't have a great life grow...
LEE DANIELS Growing up, I didn't really know who the Tuskegee Airmen were.
ANTHONY HEMINGWAY One of my favorite films is 1994's 'Little Women', with Winona Ryder and Kirsten Dunst.
KARA HAYWARD I didn't have a good childhood growing up.
JULIE ROBERTS Growing up, I didn't know anybody who didn't have a miner in the family. Both of my grandfat...
JENNIFER HAIGH I've always been fond of Winona Ryder.
CHRISTIAN SLATER I was an extreme tomboy. I did competitive gymnastics for over 10 years. I cut my hair like Winona R...
SERINDA SWAN I bought all the books, but I probably knew on the first day that law school wasn't for me. I di...
CHARLES SCHWAB I didn't even start college until I was 21.
GAYLE FORMAN Actually, I didn't start sweating until I had children.
DAVE GROHL My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 ye...
DAMON WAYANS, JR. Being a late bloomer, I really didn't have any interest in children until my late 30s, but I'...
STACY KEACH I grew up horseback riding. That was my passion. I didn't start shopping until about 16 or 17, w...
MARY-KATE OLSEN I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I d...
JOHNNY DEPP I didn't know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didn't know any arty types...
STEPHEN MANGAN I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I di...
BRYAN BATT They used to say I was a younger Winona Ryder and that always made me laugh because I'm three ye...
MOIRA KELLY I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or ...
ADAM LAMBERT In Hollywood, she's revered, she gets nominated for Oscars, but I've never heard anyone in t...
JENNIFER LOPEZ I'm a late bloomer. Even in high school, everyone else was charging ahead, and I didn't come...
WHIT STILLMAN My initial introduction to him was - this is a funny story... My Aunt Marian, my entire life growing...
ROB MCCLURE I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that ...
ALAN JACKSON My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, Cal...
VANESSA MARCIL I was a late starter on the romantic front. I didn't start dating until I was in my 30s.
GERI HALLIWELL I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently co...
BUZZ ALDRIN To be honest with you, girls didn't really start paying attention to me until after 'Clueles...
DONALD FAISON I didn't go to drama school, so I feel like I did all my growing up on 'Hollyoaks.'
NATHALIE EMMANUEL I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that ...
NEIL KINNOCK I had a really hard time growing up; we were a large family, and we didn't have much money at ho...
LUIS SUAREZ I didn't start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I kn...
AARON SCHOCK I must confess that in my teens and twenties, I loved 'Mansfield Park' rather in spite of Fa...
SUSANNA CLARKE Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involv...
KIM WESTON When I had to bury my child, I probably didn't start grieving until a year and a half later.
LAMAR ODOM I don't really remember much about Kosovo. I only remember growing up in London, where my parent...
RITA ORA Growing up in Canada, I didn't watch football much.
SIDNEY CROSBY Growing up as a South Asian-American, I didn't have any female role models.
PAYAL KADAKIA With acting, I felt like I had a lot to prove because I didn't study it; I didn't work my wa...
TAVI GEVINSON I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager.
AISHA TYLER I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnas...
MADS MIKKELSEN I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as ...
BEN SCHNETZER Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn&...
LANCE HENRIKSEN I love the smell of vanilla, but I didn't have perfumes growing up, so I wore vanilla extract.
EVAN RACHEL WOOD My mum didn't really let me watch TV until I was about 5 years old.
DACRE MONTGOMERY I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with ...
T. D. JAKES I didn't have the easiest time growing up; it's no secret. We were just poor.
AJ LEE I didn't know when I was growing up that this was a very special program, that this wasn't g...
BENNY GREEN At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't hav...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I always hated my mole growing up. I even thought about having it removed. At the time I didn't ...
NIKI TAYLOR I didn't get to play many video games when I was growing up.
ANA DE ARMAS I was definitely a late bloomer and didn't really come into my own until I was probably in my 20...
MISTY COPELAND I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the r...
PAM FERRIS I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discip...
N. T. WRIGHT Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn't have the opportunity to do them.
NAMIE AMURO I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to re...
JUNOT DIAZ When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn't go o...
CHAKA KHAN I didn't know what gay was. There was no such thing when I was growing up. I knew I had crushes ...
KEVYN AUCOIN I was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD) and obsessive-compulsive di...
HOWIE MANDEL I didn't start singing until I was 16. I was afraid to sing in front of people.
CHARLIE PUTH Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't g...
DAN AUERBACH In my mid-twenties, I said to myself: 'I can't perform anymore!' I didn't know what ...
SPENCER KAYDEN I got really good input up until the age of 11, which is perfect. That's when adolescence starts...
BAT FOR LASHES Growing up in Vermont, no matter what I did, I didn't get much recognition.
KEEGAN BRADLEY Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people ...
WARREN SPECTOR I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have e...
FLOYD ABRAMS In Hollywood, she's revered, she gets nominated for Oscars, but I've never heard anyone in the publi...
JENNIFER LOPEZ All through my twenties, I spent more time worrying what I didn't have than thinking about what ...
SHAKIRA I was a litigation lawyer, working in downtown Toronto. I was successful, yet I was very unfulfilled...
ROBIN S. SHARMA I don't have a typical filmmaker background. I didn't grow up with a super eight camera or a...
F. GARY GRAY I didn't have my first child until I was 40. I actually learned about motherhood from management...
CAROL BARTZ I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as ...
BEN SCHNETZER When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have an...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. When I was younger, I didn't have that type of person that I could look up to and be like, '...
HALIMA ADEN Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studyi...
MAYA LIN We didn't have a lot of live theater in Oklahoma. I didn't visit New York when I was growing...
KELLI O'HARA I have hidden my race for 22 books. I have hidden behind my married name, which is very Caucasian, b...
TESS GERRITSEN If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS In my first start-up, I didn't get any salary for four years, so I had to move back with my pare...
TRAVIS KALANICK In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I w...
RAEKWON I grew up in Long Island City. When I was growing up, my parents owned a women's clothing store ...
JESSICA VALENTI I didn't grow up eating meat - I was a vegetarian until I was 18.
DAPHNE OZ I didn't start doing graffiti until two years after I got to New York. Jean Michel Basquiat was ...
KEITH HARING Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen...
JENNI RIVERA Charleston is an amazing place. I probably didn't appreciate it enough when I was growing up.
THOMAS GIBSON I didn't have a pool growing up, and we went to the beach to lay out and get sun.
ERIKA ELENIAK It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movi...
TERENCE STAMP Growing up a career cop, I was always taught, 'Stay out of politics.' I didn't have any ...
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR. Growing up, we didn't have anything. My mum wasn't well, so I was in three care homes then f...
REBECCA FERGUSON Although we didn't have much when I was growing up in Split, Croatia, my parents always tried to...
GORAN IVANISEVIC I didn't really start going to see a lot of musicals and live theater probably until I was in se...
THOMAS KAIL I didn't have a cup of coffee until I was 27.
ELIZABETH HURLEY My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. E...
SLASH I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books...
PATRICIA POLACCO I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the oth...
ANTHONY HOPKINS It wasn't until my late teens that I really got into soul music and then I was like 'Ooh, th...
REBECCA FERGUSON I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My re...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA I didn't start traveling abroad until I was 17, but I spent many summers on the beaches of Doneg...
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