Considering how close to textbook perfection her life has run – from her nice family upbringing to Oxford University, marriage, a job in teaching ("which I loved"), a book deal, and critical and commercial success – the depth to which guilt and fear have embedded themselves in her psyche is alarming.
"Ryan had a nice, normal upbringing, and we want our kids to have the same normal life that we had," Lively said.
We lived in a country house, she made apple pie – it was a nice, middle-class upbringing.
By all accounts her upbringing was nice and stable.
"My upbringing was always: Be nice, be courteous, try to make people feel good," he said.
Nor did Edwards mention that after a year the family moved to a much nicer home, and that his upbringing was relatively comfortable.
Reid's a nice old man, with an idiosynratic upbringing, that does plenty of stuff that makes me facepalm out of embarrassment, but almost nothing that makes me want to stab the guy with knitting needles.
In "Dakini Power," she speaks about her upbringing as Cherry Greene, a "nice Jewish girl," her years of exploring the counterculture of the '70s, her prison work and her dedication to using the Buddha's teachings on how to work with emotions in a contemporary context.
Despite her upbringing, she grew to be a nice person.
He came from a large churchgoing family and a privileged upbringing in one of Boston's nicer suburbs.
