Pastoral Resources

Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas.

I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.

I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.

Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.

Growing up, my favorite TV show was Star Trek.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

I don't think I ever set my goals that high. As a kid growing up I just wanted an opportunity to race and to be able to make a living doing it. It just came together.

Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

When I was growing up, I always thought my hair was messy.

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.

Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre.

When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.

I guess growing up I realized that there is really this huge epidemic in a city like Los Angeles, and many other cities, where they put down thousands upon thousands of animals every day.

As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed.

As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.

I always knew I wanted to be a character in the movies. When I was growing up, I had to have a lot of surgery, and I spent a lot of time recovering at home and in the hospital. Watching movies took me away from my own problems and gave me a total escape.

It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.

Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they're not the brunt of the jokes. In this, they're the heroes of this story; we love these guys.