I’ve grown up with bhangra and Haryanvi folk dances.
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
I’ve grown up around some incredibly funny people, which has been a blessing and curse because now I’ve been completely spoiled in terms of what I find funny.
As America has grown less economically equal, a citizen’s ability to move upward has fallen behind that of citizens in other Western democracies. We are no longer the country where anyone can become anything.
That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.
I’m the person that I always was, but in terms of how I approach my living, I’m not the same person at all. At all. I’ve buried a child, I’ve ended a marriage, and the grandson that I was raising is now grown. My family has totally shifted.
What you have to understand is that my thing is not glamour. I love stretch marks and C-section scars and all of that. I’m a grown man. You don’t gotta put on no makeup with me.
At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young.
If I could have grown up to be Robin Thicke, I would have. But I’m glad somebody in the family did.
I am a product of Indian cinema; I’ve grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives; it’s part of our culture; we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.
It’s grown into a personal relationship, yeah. I’m crazy about Jerry. I think he’s a unique character.
There’s a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond – and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling.
‘Hanna’ has grown up in mother nature’s beautiful wilderness and that’s what she knows. So for someone like me who has always had a life in the city, it was a chance to look beyond social conventions.
I haven’t even grown up on Hindi films because my Hindi is bad; I am a Parsi and we speak English or Gujarati at home.
If I’d grown up in Sao Paulo, I’m sure I would’ve been a great soccer fan.
