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I was brought up in the north of England, which is probably no rougher than anywhere else, but I remember as a child being kind of mesmerized by girls fighting on the playground.

— Sarah Hall

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.

— Bruce Springsteen

I was dyslexic and uneducated and left school at 14. I grew up in Finsbury Park, which was a pretty bad place where you had to fight and be beaten. It was just a constant roundabout of violence.

— Don McCullin

When I was little, there were so many people in my house. Everyone was enjoying themselves, rehearsing, having fun. It was like a playground.

— Marion Cotillard

I wasn't a fighting kid or a causing-trouble kid. I was just one of those cheeky, crazy kids running around.

— Mo Farah

I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor.

— Nadine Velazquez

I grew up in a very small country town in Victoria. I had a very normal, low-key kind of upbringing. I went to school, I hung out with my friends, I fought with my younger sisters. It was all very normal.

— Stella Young

When I was a kid, I was more interested in beating up boys on the playground than practicing music.

— Ellen Hollman

I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.

— Edie Falco

✗Opposing Perspectives

I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could!

— Rupert Friend

I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well away from the Troubles.

— James Nesbitt