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As I look at the barn in my ninth decade, I see the no-smoking sign, rusted and tilting on the unpainted gray clapboard. My grandfather, born in 1875, milked his cattle there a century ago.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Barn Born Cattle Century Decade Grandfather Gray His Look Ninth See Sign I See

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My father is a very hardworking guy, and that's his focus in life, so I got a lot of the paternal attention that a boy wants and needs from my grandfather.

~Donald Trump, Jr.

Topics: Attention Boy Father Focus Got Grandfather Guy Hardworking His Life Lot Needs Very Wants

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When I spent time with my father, it wasn't playing ball in the back yard. I came to his office and listened to him do business or sat in on meetings. I walked job sites. On Saturday, we'd see my grandfather in Queens for a couple hours, and then he'd say, 'Let's go collect rent!'

~Donald Trump, Jr.

Topics: Back Ball Business Came Collect Couple Father Go Grandfather He Him His Hours Job Listened Meetings Office Playing Queens Rent Sat Saturday Say See Sites Spent Then Time Walked Yard I Came

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My grandfather was a great chef.

~Douglas Booth

Topics: Chef Grandfather Great

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Edgar Allan Poe, I think he's a brilliant poet. I was actually given a copy of his work when I was, like, 8 years old that was my grandfather's, and I still carry it around with me.

~Dove Cameron

Topics: Actually Around Brilliant Carry Copy Edgar Given Grandfather He His Like Me Old Poe Poet Still Think Work Years I Think

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My grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known on a worldwide basis.

~Dwayne Johnson

Topics: Basis Become First Grandfather Known Very Worldwide Wrestlers

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My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.

~Dylan Lauren

Topics: Always Artist Been Creative Creative People Grandfather Mom Painter People Photographer Surrounded

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Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find 'Chocolate Drops from the South' by my grandfather.

~Edmund White

Topics: Amazon Best Books Chocolate Drops Find Grandfather Look Named People Since Sometimes South Southern Tradition Up Valentine White Iii

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The sole literary presence from my childhood was my grandfather, a Jewish immigrant from Latvia, who eccentrically copied poems into the backs of his books. After he died, when I was 8 years old, my grandmother gave his books away, and his poems were lost.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: After Away Backs Books Childhood Copied Died Gave Grandfather Grandmother He His Immigrant Jewish Literary Lost Old Poems Presence Sole Were Who Years

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I was born in the small city of Hobart in Tasmania, Australia, in 1948. My parents were family physicians. My grandfather and great grandfather on my mother's side were geologists.

~Elizabeth Blackburn

Topics: Australia Born City Family Grandfather Great Mother Parents Physicians Side Small Were I Was Born

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