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I grew up in Chillum Heights in the Washington, D.C. area., and it was never a garden spot. When guys go, 'Hey, when I grew up, my neighborhood was tough, and it was this and that'... the reality is that it was just a terribly sad place. And thank God, I was able to escape it.

— Jonathan Banks

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I grew up in Washington, D.C. Suffice to say, it was not a garden spot.

— Jonathan Banks

I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood.

— Alicia Keys

It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away.

— Norman Rockwell

Well, I grew up in a tough neighborhood.

— Kent McCord

I grew up playing with kids from Hurt Village, playing with kids from other housing projects, Lamar Terrace, because my grandmother lived in that particular area. So, I always wondered how I would have turned out if I would have lived in that particular given circumstance.

— Katori Hall

I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one - only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs.

— Karel Capek

I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood.

— Mike Posner

✗Opposing Perspectives

I grew up in L.A. I actually grew up in the Valley, which was a pretty amazing place to grow up because everybody has nice, big backyards, and I was kind of a little nature being.

— Banks

When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all her own vegetables.

— Debi Mazar

In Hoboken, when I was a kid, I lived in a plenty tough neighborhood.

— Frank Sinatra