My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
Camille Paglia
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My grandfather worked with charities his whole entire life, and we grew up living with him. He always told me about the other side of the world and everything that's going on.
Ali Lohan
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Real is the club of my heart, and I promised my grandfather that I would play there one day. I hope that it will happen.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
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Tolkien is considered the grandfather of fantasy and, for me, I consider myself the grandson, with Terry Brooks as the kind of crazy uncle of fantasy, being the one who brought me into it.
Peter V. Brett
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My grandfather built my first hoop. It was a peach basket up against a tree, and we played in the dirt. I couldn't have been more than 6 when he put it up, and I just started playing.
Tyson Chandler
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My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert.
Rick Moody
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My family was pious and Presbyterian mainly because my grandfather was pious and Presbyterian, but that was more of an inherited intuition than an actual fact.
Marilynne Robinson
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My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out.
Leigh Steinberg
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My grandfather died before I started making films, but I definitely learnt this from him: believe in your own judgment and stick to your guns - 99% of the time, you'll be glad you did.
Kevin Macdonald
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Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell.
Julian Clary
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More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.
James Earl Jones
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My grandfather had Alzheimer's. He would eat everything and anything that was around; then he wouldn't remember that he ate it and would demand to be fed again.
Hirokazu Kore-eda
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The public library is where I studied. It's where my grandfather taught himself English.
Gina Raimondo
LibraryGrandfatherWhereEnglish
I come from a family of actors. My grandfather was like a Laurence Olivier with the Comedie Francaise. Since I was four I went every week to the Comedie Francaise. My aunt and grandmother were there, but my grandfather was a big star.
Emmanuelle Seigner
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I've got deep roots in Kalamazoo, with a grandfather, Harold Allen, who was a big part of Upjohn Co. for many years as the corporate secretary and friends with W. E. Upjohn.
David Means
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I go back to Africa every year. I have a home there. You know, my grandfather lives back there in Cameroon.
Joakim Noah
HomeYearYouBackKnowGrandfather
Several of my uncles are comedians. My father is a comedian; my grandfather was known for his jokes. It definitely runs in the family.
Charlie Murphy
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My mom was born in Korea - Seoul, Korea, during the '50s, '51. She was abandoned; her and my uncle were abandoned. My grandfather was a Seabee and adopted my mom and my uncle, and brought them to Compton in the '50s. That's where she was raised.
Anderson Paak
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My grandfather and dad worked at General American Transportation Corp. in Chicago, a company that made tank cars and freight cars. We had a pragmatic, Republican, manufacturing, Illinois consciousness as far as employment went.
Bill Moseley
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My grandfather has a big influence on me; without him, I wouldn't be where I am now.
Angelique Kerber
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My brothers were rabbis. My grandfather was a rabbi.
Saul Leiter
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My grandfather is the greatest man I'll ever know.
Stephanie Zimbalist
ManKnowGrandfatherGreatestEver
My grandfather was an excellent harmonium player, and after him, I, too, trained myself and can play a few musical instruments well.
Neil Nitin Mukesh
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The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his masters in music composition; he was a jazz composer. My dad was a musician, too. He played more, like, soul music.
Travis Scott
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