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“I'm not really into comfort books. There are too many of those as it is. Just sort of narcotic books, like my grandmother used to read. They have value like Paxil has value, but there's plenty of them in the world already. There's a shortage of confronting, stimulating, exciting books.”

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Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“My grandparents were classic Indian grandparents. My grandmother would put so much powder on her face that it was like a Kabuki play and she'd come down the stairs. I was like 8 or 9 years old. My grandfather apparently had no teeth because he would take out his teeth and put them in a glass, and then he would try to scare me with it. I started to try to scare them when I was a little older.”

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Author:M. Night Shyamalan

“It's funny because the most sane women I've ever met are my mom and my grandmothers. I think you have to be incredibly sane and self-aware to function in relatively insane environments.”

Thinking Self Environment Mom Mets Function My Mom Insane Grandmother Sane My Grandmother

Author:Jenny Lawson

“My shape reminds me a lot of my grandmother, whom I was really close to. She died when I was 13, and we have a really similar body type, the squat New England woman who can roll out dough and bring in your lawnmower. That's kind of the vibe of my body, and I'm into it.”

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Author:Lena Dunham

“I was extremely close with my mother and my grandmothers, we shared our lives - fully, honestly - and it was heightened as each succumbed to cancer. Little was hidden between us. No time. And what was hidden, turned inward. I made a vow to speak. Speak or die.”

Littles Made Mother Dies Speak Our Lives Cancer Honestly Grandmother Inward My Grandmother Vow

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“I remember as a child, my grandmother read to me Silent Spring. It was incomprehensible to me that there could be a world without birdsong.”

World Children Remember Spring Silent Grandmother My Grandmother Birdsong Silent Spring

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.”

“My grandmother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. It leaked, she contended, out of empty sockets if the wall switch had been left on. She would go around screwing in bulbs, and if they lighted up, she would fearfully turn off the wall switch and go back to her Pearson's or Everybody's, happy in the satisfaction that she had stopped not only a costly but dangerous leakage. nothing could ever clear this up for her.”

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Author:James Thurber

“My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.”

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Author:Aaron Sanchez

“I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.”

Used Grandmother Opera My Grandmother Soap Soap Operas

Author:Bob Edwards

“My grandmother was utterly convinced I'd wind up as the Archbishop of Canterbury. And, to be honest, I've never entirely ruled it out.”

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Author:Hugh Grant

“When I look in the mirror, I don't see my Dad, I see my grandmother. For a while it was my mother looking back at me. If only it was my Dad.”

Ifs Looks Mother Dad Mirrors My Dad Grandmother Looking Back My Grandmother

Author:Colin Firth

“My grandmother was also an active member of the tenants association and a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party, and both of my parents were extremely liberal, so I think I grew up in a household that was very politically conscious - we all watched the elections on TV, and we watched the debates. So it was an awareness that we were raised with, and as we grew into young adults, we just naturally became politically active. It was just understood that it was important, that it was our responsibility.”

“My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full of discussions of condensation, drifts, misunderstanding, repetition. These are the materials I work with. My debt is to these women.”

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Author:Lucrecia Martel

“The sense of being Jewish never left me, but when my grandmother died, I rebelled against Judaism as I knew it then, which was Orthodox. I saw the rituals, a lot of them, as very male, for a long time.”

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Author:Marge Piercy

“My grandmother was very important to me. She gave me my religious education. She gave me a sense of the female side of Judaism, of the rich store of stories and legends of the women of the schtetl.”

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Author:Marge Piercy

“I was raised in the church by my grandmother who made sure we went to Sunday School, read the Bible and went to church every Sunday. Every night we read Bible stories before we went to bed.”

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Author:Torii Hunter

“My grandmother made dying her life's work.”

Made Dying Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Hugh Leonard

“My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time. She raised us Baptist, and when I got old enough to say I didn't want to go to church, she didn't force me. She was cool.”

Want Enough Force Church Raised Grandmother Portions My Grandmother Baptists

Author:Curtis Jackson

“Spending so much time on the road, I get to fart all the time. Then when it's, like, Thanksgiving dinner and I'm sitting with my grandmother, I can't fart for, like, two hours.”

I Can Two Hours Sitting Dinner Spending Grandmother My Grandmother Fart Thanksgiving Dinner

Author:Tom DeLonge

“My grandmother and both my parents worked in Bollywood.”

Parent Grandmother My Grandmother Bollywood

Author:Rohit Shetty

“To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.”

Long Mother Father Lost Grandmother My Grandmother Reminders

Author:Les Lye

“It hit me that being hip was a full-time job, and I was only a part-timer. I couldn't hide forever that I liked county fairs, particularly the goat booth at the 4-H tent, or that I once spent a week with my grandmother at her house in the giant retirement community of Sun City, Arizona, and it was one of the most carefree times of my life.”

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Author:Jancee Dunn

“My grandfather, Harry Ferguson, was a butcher in Hill of Beath; so even though my grandparents lived in some poverty, we got loads of beef. My grandmother, Meg, was a fine Scottish cook who did slow cooking.”

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Author:Kenneth Cranham

“I was lucky enough to realize my dream. When I was a little kid in Santa Barbara, sitting on the floor in my grandmother's house, dreaming of maybe one day working for Walt Disney, and to have that dream come true, I think that's pretty remarkable.”

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Author:Floyd Norman

“My grandfather was a teacher, my grandmother on my mom's side, four of my aunts, my sister-in-law, my best friend. So I've always, my entire life, been surrounded by teachers, and because of that I've had a tremendous respect for what teachers can do, the power that they can have.”

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Author:Michelle Rhee

“I'm the only person in my family who can't sing. My grandmother was an opera singer and all of her kids were in church five days a week - or between church and vocal lessons at Carnegie Hall. But my mom had her first studio experience recording on my album. She's used to having to fill the room, so she had to adjust to the microphone and not sing opera.”

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Author:Le1f

“I don't think my grandmother would ever be convinced, but my family was convinced that I was convinced, and actually, they came around. My mother ended up going to fundraisers in Chicago that were raising money to send to the students in the South and actually, over years, she went to an elevated train bus station one day at 6:00 a.m. to hand out leaflets protesting the war.”

Thinking Years War Hands Mother Students One Day My Family Train South Convinced Grandmother Stations Chicago Bus My Grandmother Fundraiser Raising Money

Author:Diane Nash

“My grandmother died of natural causes. Or as my family calls it murdered by the lord.”

Causes Natural Lord My Family Died Grandmother My Grandmother Mother Died

Author:Dane Cook

“I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.”

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Author:Maya Angelou

“Through my grandmother's stories always life moved, moved heroically toward an end. Nobody ever cried in my grandmother's stories. They worked, or schemed, or fought. But no crying. When my grandmother died, I didn't cry, either. Something about my grandmother's stories (without her ever having said so) taught me the uselessness of crying about anything."”

Said Ends Stories Cry Taught Died Moved Grandmother Cried My Grandmother Uselessness Mother Died

Book:The Collected Works of Langston Hughes

Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes

“I'm like a bumper car. When I did an infomercial I was fodder for every TV comedy show. I couldn't get a job. People said I was a huge joke. I've been a joke so many times. I've been on my way out since I started, but I'm strong-willed. My mother is so much tougher than I am and my grandmother is so much tougher than my mother.”

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Author:Cher

“One of the saddest sentences I know is "I wish I had asked my mother about that." Or my father. Or my grandmother. Or my grandfather. As every parent knows, our children are not as fascinated by our fascinating lives as we are.”

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Author:William Zinsser

“I've always been taught to care what other people think. My grandmother and mother taught me to project a positive image of myself.”

People Thinking Care Mother Taught Projects Grandmother My Grandmother Positive Image

Author:Lamar Odom

“My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.”

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Author:Lamar Odom

“My grandmother's brain was dead, but her heart was still beating. It was the first time we ever had a democrat in the family.”

Firsts Heart Stills Brain First Time Democrat Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Emo Philips

“I grew up in the church, Resurrection Baptist Church in Philadelphia, and my grandmother was that grandmother at the church, the one always at the church, always putting on the events. It was deeply instilled in me that every action, everything I create, everything I say and do in the world is inexorably bound to the lives of everybody I come in contact with - and it's my responsibility to put things into the world that have a positive influence on humanity.”

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Author:Will Smith

“Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance.”

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Author:Juliette Binoche

“I took my grandmother to the emergency room. The doctor said that she was on an artificial life support system, and that although her brain was dead her heart was still beating. I though, "we've never had a democrat in the family before".”

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Author:Emo Philips

“My Grandmother wouldn't even speak the word Democrat if there were children in the room, she'd say Bastards instead.”

Ifs Children Speak Rooms Democrat Grandmother My Grandmother

Book:Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of P.J. O'Rourke

Source: Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of P.J. O'Rourke

“I believe in things I can count on, like beer and ESPN and my grandmother's pecan pie.”

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Author:Justin Timberlake

“Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood”

Long Memories Blood Shadow Lays Landscape Grandmother Immense Interiors My Grandmother Long Life Rainy Continental

Book:The Way to Rainy Mountain

Source: The Way to Rainy Mountain

“I remembered a time when my grandmother had asked me to explain television to her - the guts, not the funny pictures. There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat. This be treason in an age when ignorance has come into its own and one man's opinion is as good as another's. But there it is. As Star says, the world is what it is - and doesn't forgive ignorance.”

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Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“They [granddaughters] went to Disneyland and Alice proudly told Snow White: 'My grandmother is a famous atlas!' So that's nice - they're happy that I'm an atlas!”

Grandmother My Grandmother Atlas

Author:Joanna Lumley

“I'm from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I moved to LA when I was about eleven years old. I always go back to Milwaukee whenever I can. Just chill with my grandpa and my grandmother and just be with family, be with people that were there before I got a million views on YouTube because of my music video.”

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Author:Jacob Latimore

“I went to Catholic high school, so my being in this [the craft] is not going to make my grandmother very happy. It's funny, because I was the only one who is Catholic in it. You have this thing in mass where you have to genuflect before you go into the pew, so I said you have to do this [for a scene] and they said why, and I said because you have to; I don't know why, it's a rule. Or like instinct. It's funny they set in a Catholic school. I went to St. Ignatius College Prep - "Where Modesty is our Policy."”

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Author:Robin Tunney

“My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.”

Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Bernie Mac

“My life was typical. I played a little Little League baseball. I never wanted for food. I always had shoes. I had a room. There were no great tragedies. There were the typical ups and downs but I wouldn' t say it was at all sad. We were Jewish and living in the suburbs so there was a slightly neurotic bent to it, but I can't point to anything where a boy overcame a tragedy to become a comedian. As my grandmother used to say, 'I can't complain.”

“My first job as a kid was going from door to door selling Christmas cards, to raise money for my grandmother's hip replacement. Because, you know... You break it, you buy it.”

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Author:Emo Philips

“My grandmother used to discipline me, I mean, beat my ass, and I deserved them, too.”

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Author:Richard Pryor

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