Marie-Chantal Claire Quotes

They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood.

I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.

It's really hard to escape where you were brought up. Not that I would ever want to escape it.

My whole British culture in growing up is still with me for sure. I'm very grateful for that.

I grew up listening to everybody.

My Britishness waters my music down!

Having grown up under Chinese rule, I don't have any memory of colonial Hong Kong or feel any attachment to it.

I used to be addicted to 'Reader's Digest' growing up. I would read the stories about love, and I guess that's where I became a hopeless romantic. I draw from that a lot.

My parents' relationship with Kolkata is so strong. Growing up, the absence of Kolkata was always present in our lives.

I've always been optimistic. And I have a feeling that it happened because of going to all those movies with my grandmother in the '40s because there was no cynicism.

When I was young, one Sunday every month or so, my mom would load my brothers and me into our station wagon and drive 80 miles north to Orange County, where we'd meet our extended family at a Persian restaurant for lunch.

People constantly express surprise that Americans are so hot for Shakespeare. But Britain's culture is American culture, too.

When I was 6, 7 years old, I was raised on all the old-school stuff. My momma used to play oldies in the house. That's all my momma used to play around the house was oldies.

When we were kids, I know when I saw 'Pinocchio' it had a huge impact. I was ten years old, and I went home, and I was drawing the characters.

When I was very little, I had an Essex accent.

I always drank chocolate milk growing up and I remember my grandmother would always have it when I would visit her in the Dominican Republic - that's when it all started.

London's where I grew up and had most of my experiences.

I spent age 6-12 basically thinking about 'Back to the Future' all the time, so I think it's probably had a pretty huge influence on me and the way I think and write.

I'm from Norway, but I always felt like I'd grown up with British culture.

I actually grew up around the corner from where Harold Pinter did. If you want a snapshot of my childhood, me and Pinter, we essentially grew up together.

I'm always pretty influenced by stuff from when we were younger.

I always feel like my writing is consistently influenced by everything I watched and listened to growing up, so it's just this crazy collage of everything, you know.

The 'Jonny Quest' theme had a huge influence on me while I was growing up.

My family grew up in Florence. There I became what I am now, and those are things that cannot be forgotten.

When I was a little boy in Tijuana, it was wonderland. We left when I was probably four - I was dying of tuberculosis.