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I grew up in a Southside suburb of Chicago. It was idyllic. But I was plunked into a family that was not artistic and didn't know how to deal with my emotions.

— Jane Lynch

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.

— Billy Corgan

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.

— James Iha

I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.

— Zoe Cassavetes

I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together.

— JR

I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.

— Mike Mills

I grew up in a wood cabin on Puget Sound in Manchester, Wash. My family taught me to appreciate the arts and the outdoors, and I still yearn for the absolute silence I experienced there when I was young.

— Steven Holl

When I talk about my artist parents, people imagine a bohemian environment and think, 'Aha, so that's where he gets it from!' But we were as white, straight, and middle-class as the next family on our white, straight, middle-class housing estate.

— David Mitchell

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was raised on the Southside of Chicago, and my whole family was musically-inclined.

— Jeremih

My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.

— Jerry Saltz

I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

— Lars von Trier