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Related I am especially grateful for the memory of my grandmother, Maria Petrovna, who was the family's good... ANDREI SAKHAROV My grandmother was a chemist. She worked at the Banting Institute in Toronto, and at 44 she died of ... EVA VERTES My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who... VICTORIA CLARK Every one of my paintings is of some scene or story that I remember when I was a girl. I loved stayi... HELEN STEWART I remember when it happened she didn't know where her father or her aunts or her grandmother was and... JANICE WILLIAMS My grandmother died in 1991 and I was born in '86. We only met once, but I didn't speak Engl... OONA CHAPLIN One day, I was at my grandmother's house, and I found diaries that she kept as a young girl. I o... LAURA AMY SCHLITZ My grandmother always used to tell me, if I had a problem, I was only allowed to complain for one se... EUZHAN PALCY I think I've always been half out of my shell and half in. 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CARINE ROITFELD She had this dark cancer water dripping out of her chest. Eyes closed. Intubated. But her hand was s... JOHN GREEN My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes. ZACH ANNER Here is what I think now, reading what I wrote down for the police at age fifteen, right after I was... JESSICA STERN My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her. LAMAR ODOM Rose lived the same life I did, but she doesn’t have PTSD. No bad dreams, no missing memories. Som... PAULA STOKES My great-grandmother lived to be 100 years old, so I got to know her. She always sent us birthday ca... DANA PERINO Every time I see a cardinal, I know my grandmother is with me. This regal, red bird was Grandma'... KRIS CARR I have been grateful for the influence of my grandmother and my grandfather in my life. I remember m... JAMES E. FAUST My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sou... BILLY STRAYHORN You have to kind of put it in perspective and really think about it. I think about I'm hurting my fa... ANGELA LENHART I don't believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I'... BETH ORTON Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe. TRUMAN CAPOTE I was biding my time until I got her in the lineup. She can really be this good. MAX BUKOVAC My parents traveled a lot, so my grandparents practically raised me. My grandmother and I really bon... HILLARY SCOTT Wigs have always been a part of my life and have become a staple accessory in my closet. I can remem... SHERRI SHEPHERD The conditions are awful, I hate them. I have been driving like my grandmother. Still, it's my first... MARCUS GRONHOLM I was raised going to the movies with my grandmother as a kid. And then I'd come home, and my be... CAROL BURNETT I want witchcraft so bad that I can't stand it. I have wands in my apartment. And I use them som... AMY SEDARIS I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother. BOB EDWARDS I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could love in this dying world but th... MARILYN MONROE My grandfather died in 1952. I never did meet him, but I did meet my grandmother and my aunts, who l... TRUDI RENWICK No, I am just writing this because, sometimes, you’re still all I have to write about. Sometimes y... MORIAH PEARSON Then, I exit her apartment. With practiced efficiency, I engage all of the locks in seconds. I want ... K. WEBSTER I started listening to gospel when I was a little boy and my grandmother used to rock me on her lap. AARON NEVILLE When I had my cancer, the chemotherapy took my hair away. So then I decided I would just keep it sho... ANTHONY WARLOW Flustered, she replied, "You're not my - my - grandmother, or something." "You'd talk abo... MAGGIE STIEFVATER But I told my grandmother, and she listened, and then she said, "Don't ever tell this story to anybo... ROBERT GOOLRICK My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door. QUINCY JONES As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and sup... ANNA FRIEL I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and le... LARRY DAVID When I look in the mirror, I sometimes think I'm getting old, but then I have two generations be... STEPHANIE BEACHAM What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown... RAHUL GANDHI I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also c... IDINA MENZEL Cancer runs in our family. I lost my grandmother to it. There's a saying that you meet people an... COTE DE PABLO My love of baking might have originated with my grandmother. She had a lemon tree growing in her bac... LISA GRAFF I probably will go get a copy of that film and keep it, just so I can say I did it one time. Honestl... CHRIS WIDGER I think that our public schools sometimes get a bad rap - and sometimes deservedly so. I think the g... DAN BONNER I can be sweet and nice, but every girl likes to look sexy and be a bit raunchy sometimes. NIKKI SANDERSON I love a good breakfast - grits and eggs, French toast, turkey bacon. My grandmother on my father... TYLER PERRY My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, m... WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to p... CAMRYN MANHEIM It could be hectic sometimes when you're being an artist and running a label at the same time. B... MISSY ELLIOTT God knew our lives would be really bad sometimes. Like maybe we'd be turned into a monster and then ... MICHAEL GRANT But her grandmother had never suggested she could think the same of Scarlet. You'll be fine, she alw... MARISSA MEYER Sometimes, though only in my most unguarded moments, I can still think of Annette Winters as my firs... JOHN BURNSIDE The granddaughter couldn't understand why they just couldn't go back home so she could play with her... DANNY LEBLANC I went to private school for a very long time, and we always wore uniforms. Then in third grade, I s... KEKE PALMER My grandmother used to get her shoes made in Paris in the '30s, and they would be shipped to her... KEVIN KWAN I tread on the m che' with my feet and I sometimes use my teeth, and of course my hands are always w... SHIRAZ PELED I know that my grandmother certainly did nothing to warrant my mother stealing all of her jewelry th... ASHLY LORENZANA Tuppence was what my grandmother nicknamed my mother, so she gave it to me. My sister is called Ange... 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