I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like?
Brad Pitt
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My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.
Irwin Thomas
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I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.
Aravind Adiga
DailyCityGrandfatherSurgeonUp
I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
Frances Mayes
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My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.
Aubrey Plaza
Puerto RicoGrandfatherOverEnglish
Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.
Barry Gibb
HomeDayParentsThoughtGrandfather
My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies.
Wyclef Jean
UncleGrandfatherI Was RaisedPriest
My grandfather was originally from the south of China before he emigrated to Malaysia pre-World War II. And I wanted to learn more about the history of the country of my ancestors. I knew I wanted a narrative set in contemporary Beijing. I was really interested in the effect of the rapid social and economic change on ordinary citizens in China.
Susan Barker
ChangeHistoryWarLearnGrandfather
My grandfather was Orthodox, and he was religious, but neither of my parents were. Of course, as they got older, it seems like they get more religious the older they get, even though they're still not practicing Jews.
Scott Ian
ParentsGrandfatherMorePracticing
I realized that my grandfather walked with Martin Luther King forty years ago. That was his dream. And in his little way, he helped us get closer to where we are today.
Tim Daly
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I just think, at my stage of life, becoming a new grandfather, it's about time I started to behave like a grandfather.
Rex Hunt
LifeTimeThinkNewGrandfather
I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality.
Lenny Kravitz
MindRealityYouGrandfatherYour
A publisher friend of mine suggested that I write a book about my grandfather, who had just died. I had nothing else to fill my empty days with, so I started work on this book. While researching it - watching lots of movies, talking to moviemakers - I became interested in movies and started making documentaries.
Kevin Macdonald
WorkFriendBookTalkingGrandfather
I was always an athlete; my grandfather and my dad are basketball players, and I played sports my whole life.
Juliana Harkavy
LifeSportsBasketballGrandfather
I never knew my grandfather. He died the year before I was born. But as a child, he did, of course, those wonderful illustrations, 'Treasure Island,' and whatnot.
Jamie Wyeth
ChildYearBornTreasureGrandfather
We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside.
Greta Gerwig
DepressionDownGoGrandfatherPoor
I spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars.
Giada De Laurentiis
StarsTimeThoughtGrandfatherRock
All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.
Erica Jong
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My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents' courtship and their early lives together in Indian Territory.
Elizabeth Warren
TogetherBuildingEarlyGrandfather
My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone cry.
Jessie Ware
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I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.
David Attenborough
BornVillageGrandfatherMoreMiles
I learned to speak Italian, somewhat. Definitely enough to get around in Italy. My grandfather always used to swear at my grandmother in Italian.
Jen Lancaster
SpeakEnoughGrandfatherGrandmother
My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher.
Billy Ray Cyrus
GrandfatherPreacherPentecostal
I'm a grandfather now.
Robert Plant
GrandfatherNow
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