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I grew up at the beach and I was always involved in beach clean-ups and caring for my environment.

I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life.

I was on the beach every summer. That was the pleasant part of my childhood because we were right by the sea. We'd take a picnic, and I'd spend hours in the water until I turned blue. You couldn't get me out of there.

I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.

I was a tomboy growing up, and an athlete.

I grew up surfing. My dad probably put me on a surfboard before I could walk.

When I grew up as a kid, a part of my life - I grew up in Boston near Revere Beach, at my grandma's, and she would take me to the beach.

I started surfing when I was working on 'The Hunger Games,' out on the north shore of Oahu, so about four years ago. I used to skateboard as a kid, kind of religiously, until I broke my leg riding in a pool when I was about 14 and I couldn't play football that fall.

I grew up on the beach. It's just a way of life. You don't seek out that lifestyle; it's just day-to-day.