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My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.

~Carol Burnett

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My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.

~Carol Burnett

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My grandmother and I would go see movies, and we'd come back to the apartment - we had a one-room apartment in Hollywood - and I would kind of lock myself in this little dressing room area with a cracked mirror on the door and act out what I had just seen.

~Carol Burnett

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My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too.

~Carol Burnett

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I come from Texas, and my grandmother and mother were born in Arkansas.

~Carol Burnett

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Acting is our job, not talking about it. In France, they know me like I belong to their family. I go somewhere and I feel like I'm sometimes the aunt, the grandmother, the mother, the sister. They all know me. But it's not supposed to be that way.

~Carole Bouquet

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My grandmother used to cook for eight every day - sitting down lunches and dinner, the way you do it in Italy, you sit down. And when my parents could afford their own place, I went with them but still my mother used to work but used to come back from work to cook lunch for my father, come back from work, cook dinner for my father and me.

~Carrie Ann Inaba

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When my father came out to his mom, my grandmother said, 'You waited for your father to die; why couldn't you have waited for me to die?' I knew then that I never want to contribute to the corrosiveness of wanting someone to stay hidden.

~Carrie Brownstein

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My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.

~Cassandra Wilson

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I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.

~Cate Blanchett

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