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I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape. We were outdoors all the time and we played outside.

— Mark Ruffalo

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Olga Kurylenko

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.

— Phoebe Tonkin

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

I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.

— Rodney Atkins

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

— Lauren Conrad

I love being on the beach - it's my favourite place. I can chill out, read, listen to music, play with my daughter.

— Geri Halliwell

✗Opposing Perspectives

I grew up in the Midwest, quite far from any ocean or any beach, a million miles. I think for kids who grew up where I did, the idea of California, surfing and beach life was so exotic and glamorous.

— John Malkovich

I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on the beach. I was like a summer baby. But I did grow up in the South. I grew up in serious, serious Appalachia, in a very small town.

— William Gibson

I was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California, and the whole lifestyle revolves around the beach. My parents met surfing, and the beach was a major part of our daily lives.

— Marisa Miller

I've been around the surf culture since I was a kid. I grew up in a beach town in Rhode Island. Then eventually I lived in Dana Point, Calif., a real surf hotbed.

— Don Winslow