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“I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.”

Writing Play Mother Audience Dog Stones Grandmother My Grandmother Deaf

“My family was musical on both sides. My father’s family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple’s double — she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s in the kitchen for my grandmother.”

Play Used Mother Song Father Sides My Family Guitar Musical Kitchen Temples Grandmother Contests Both Sides My Grandmother Pianist Mother Grandmother

Author:Gloria Estefan

“I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.”

Made Law Used Order Idiot Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10 percent right away to charity.'”

Said Certain Amount Percent Charity Saving Grandmother My Grandmother Savings Paychecks

Author:Patrick Schwarzenegger

“My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.”

Persons Inspire Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Victoria Azarenka

“My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago.”

Whole Spiritual Spirituality Generations My Family Grandmother Preacher Pastor My Grandmother Cousin Aunt Whole Family

Author:Ziggy Marley

“And I want to say that my grandmother was one of the biggest inspirations in my life. She taught me how to be a real woman, to have strength and self-respect, and to never give those things away.”

Want Giving Real Self Inspiration Taught Self Respect Grandmother My Grandmother Having Strength Real Women

Author:Reese Witherspoon

“I can't cook! It's genetic. My grandmother can't cook, my mother can't cook. I was raised to believe you eat because your body needs fuel for energy, so I eat super foods.”

Needs Believe I Can Body Mother Energy Raised Your Body Cooks Fuel Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Jada Pinkett Smith

“Just from being with my grandmother, my maturity escalated. And now I'm in tune to the needs of people. It was a large responsibility, taking care of a human being.”

People Needs Humans Care Human Beings Responsibility Maturity Tunes Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Steve Garvey

“My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably 3 years old, but she was like a cartoon character. She'd swoop into our lives with presents and boxes, and she always smelled great and looked great.”

Years Firsts Persons Character Bigs Beautiful Our Lives Car Hair Boxes Grandmother Cartoon My Grandmother First Person Stylish Cartoon Character Big Hair Big Cars

Author:Tom Ford

“My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed.”

Song Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Rita Coolidge

“My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.”

Knows Enough Kids Mother Father Teacher Profession Grandmother Grandfather My Grandmother My Grandfather

Author:Warren Beatty

“I'd love to own a bakery at some point. My grandmother could help me run it - she is an amazing baker! I'd also love to do a cookbook.”

Helping Running Help Me Grandmother My Grandmother Bakers Cookbook Bakeries

Author:Jordin Sparks

“My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.”

Children Littles Ideas Together Parent Born Dad My Dad Eight Stores Tiny Russia Nine Grandmother Chicago My Grandmother Groceries Grocery Stores Movie Business

Author:Bob Balaban

“My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.”

Parent Inspire Grandmother Personal Life My Grandmother

Author:Chelsea Clinton

“My grandmother was, back when they called them 'stewardesses,' a flight attendant. I actually had a ball wearing that little uniform and making sure everything was under control.”

Littles Balls Flight Grandmother Uniforms My Grandmother Back When Stewardess Flight Attendant

Author:Erika Christensen

“My grandmother didn't live to see us begin our lives in public service. But she probably would have thought it extraordinary that just two generations after she arrived in San Antonio, one grandson would be the mayor and the other would be on his way - the good people of San Antonio willing- to the United States Congress.”

“My grandmother's generation and generations before always saw beyond the horizons of their own lives and their own circumstances. They believed that opportunity created today would lead to prosperity tomorrow.”

Today Opportunity Saws Generations Tomorrow Circumstances Prosperity Grandmother Horizon My Grandmother

Author:Julian Castro

“My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants in New York in the early '20s. My mother's family came over from Ireland generations ago.”

Mother Generations New York Mets Grandmother Immigrants Ireland Grandfather My Grandmother My Grandfather Moscow Early 20s Odessa

Author:Alexis Denisof

“I didn't grow up in a regular upbringing. I ended up at my grandmother's house past a certain age, so I took care of things myself. I moved out of home when I was 16.”

Home Care Age Past Certain House Grows Growing Up Moved Grandmother My Grandmother Upbringing

Author:Sky Ferreira

“I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.”

Book House Grew Reader Grew Up England Filled British Newspapers Magazines Canada Grandmother Really Great My Grandmother Great Love

Author:Alan Bradley

“I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands.”

Children Book Hands Father Reader Grandmother Volume Grandchildren My Grandmother Forbidden Delighted Frivolous

Author:Alan Bradley

“My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.”

Lasts Views Air Sky Husband England Hot London Beloved Canada Grandmother Meant To Be My Grandmother Flew Baskets Balloons Victorian Were Meant To Be Hot Air Air Balloons Hot Air Balloons

Author:Alan Bradley

“My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet.”

Beautiful My Family Singers Grandmother Grandfather Grandparent My Grandmother My Grandfather Quartets Tenors Sopranos Barbershop

Author:Clare Bowen

“My grandmother worked on a fruit and vegetable market stall.”

Fruit Grandmother Vegetables My Grandmother Fruits And Vegetables

Author:Petra Stunt

“My grandmother was the daughter of pioneers, as was my grandfather, and they were farmers. And they worked the land, and there is a grounded value system that becomes inherent in knowing what's real and what's powerful. And understanding the material nature of not only man, but beasts and profit and all of those things that you fight for.”

“My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.”

Wells Common Ministers Grandmother My Grandmother 1930s

Author:Colin Firth

“My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.”

Stories Very Good Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Cornelia Funke

“My grandmother always taught me, 'If you don't have a home, family, and church, you don't have anything.”

Ifs Home Church Taught Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Jennifer Hudson

“My grandmother had great influence on me. She was secretary of state in the 1970's, and that's when I was born. She showed me the importance of public service, and she was admired by people regardless of their political party.”

People States Political Born Party Influence Importance Grandmother Secretary My Grandmother Political Parties Public Service Great Influence

Author:Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

“My grandmother used to cook for eight every day - sitting down lunches and dinner, the way you do it in Italy, you sit down. And when my parents could afford their own place, I went with them but still my mother used to work but used to come back from work to cook lunch for my father, come back from work, cook dinner for my father and me.”

Way Stills Used Mother Father Parent Sitting Down And Eight Dinner Cooks Grandmother Lunch My Grandmother Sitting Down

Author:Carrie Ann Inaba

“I've had a lot of really influential people in my life, like my grandmother MJ, who have helped me along the way. But there are so many of us girls in my family, and even though they're all so open and honest, who I seek advice from depends on what aspect of life I'm dealing with.”

People Way Girl Advice Honest Depends Aspect My Family Grandmother My Grandmother Influential Aspects Of Life Influential People

Author:Khloe Kardashian

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