Because I'm from North Carolina, you think I'm the Andy Griffith show, or something?
I was born in Norfolk, Virginia. I began school there, the first year of public school. When I was 7, the family shifted back to North Carolina. I grew up in North Carolina; had my schooling through the college level in North Carolina.
I'm a North Carolina native. Grew up in North Carolina.
People have asked me about the 19th century and how I knew so much about it. And the fact is I really grew up in the 19th century, because North Carolina in the 1950s, the early years of my childhood, was exactly synchronous with North Carolina in the 1850s. And I used every scrap of knowledge that I had.
Both my parents came from North Carolina, in Warren County. My mother had a feeling that there was greater culture in North Carolina than obtained in Norfolk, Virginia, plus the fact she just didn't like the lowland-lying climate there.
I grew up in North Carolina, and I grew up on wrestling.
I grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina where Fort Bragg is, basically where the Mid Atlantic territories were sort of based out of the Carolinas. So I grew up watching guys like Ric Flair, Dusty Rhodes and the Road Warriors.
I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.
I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.
Yeah, I'm from North Carolina, but grew up in Eastern Europe, and became a woman in London.
I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.
I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God.
Even with the fact that I grew up in North Carolina, 'Jim Rash' just screams 'Southern boy.'
I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.
We actually grew closer as friends years later when we started doing personal appearances together. I stayed in touch with Andy [Griffith] and Don [Knotts] until they passed away.
I was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, which is where J. Cole is from. I went up to Washington, D.C., where my mother moved, to stay with her, and then moved back to North Carolina to finish junior high and high school.