A Quote by Richard Russo

The world is divided between kids who grow up wanting to be their parents and those like us, who grow up wanting to be anything but. Neither group ever succeeds.

Richard Russo

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Richard Russo
American - Novelist
Born: July 15, 1949

I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.

Matt Damon

I'm not one of those little kids that grow up wanting to be an actor.

Travis Fimmel

I didn't grow up wanting to play basketball. I grew up wanting to enlist and then go into law enforcement.

Brittney Griner

I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.

Frank Rich

I don't think anyone should grow up wanting to go around killing people. I don't think anyone should grow up wanting to be a secret agent.

Timothy Dalton

When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter.

Seth Godin

I think that parents grow up with an idea of what they want their kids to be like - and then their kids grow up to be people of themselves, of their own.

Katy Perry

And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the goal - to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn't have the novels, maybe I'd be much more frustrated by not having directed yet.

David Benioff

The biggest thing for me is wanting my kids to grow up safely and have happy lives. To me, that's enough.

Jennifer Connelly

I didn't grow up really wanting to be an actor. I don't remember ever not being an actor.

Jodie Foster

I'm kind of like both of them: My mother grew up wanting to save the world, and my father grew up wanting to rule the world.

David Droga

Well, I think that I pretty much grew up grow up wanting to represent the West Indies.

Brian Lara

There's a big difference in outcomes between children who grow up without a father and children who grow up with a married set of parents.

Charles Murray

A parent does not do everything for their kid. A parent that does everything for their kid produces a kid with no self-confidence. If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent. The reason we grow up to be healthy adults is because our parents played this game of giving us responsibility, disciplining us when necessary, letting us try, letting us fail.

Simon Sinek

There's a huge dichotomy between people who grow up with alienation, which, for me, was invaluable, and people who grow up so completely privileged that it breeds this complacency and lack of desire to question or challenge or do anything significant. Those are the types of people who become partners at the corporate law firms.

Glenn Greenwald

I wanted to do comedy, but I didn't grow up wanting to be a standup.

Lolly Adefope

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