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I think my grandmother Woodrell was most responsible for my becoming a writer. She wasn't quite literate, but was very proud that she attended school as far as the third grade. She worked as a maid, housekeeper and cook.

~Daniel Woodrell

Topics: As Far As Attended Becoming Cook Far Grade Grandmother Literate Maid Most Proud Quite Responsible School She Think Third Very Worked Writer I Think

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I have my great grandmother's recipe for black beans, all the way from Cuba, and I know how to make those. I'm actually pretty good at it now. But my first time, the beans actually exploded in the pot, so I had black beans just dripping from the ceiling - which is actually a dream come true for most Cubans. It was a nightmare to clean.

~Danny Pino

Topics: Actually Beans Black Ceiling Clean Come Cuba Cuban Dream Dripping Exploded First First Time Good Grandmother Great Had How Just Know Make Most Nightmare Now Pot Pretty Pretty Good Recipe Those Time True Way Which

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My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from.

~David Alan Grier

Topics: Alabama America Born Call Came Grandmother Growing Growing Up House Little Me Mississippi Prairie Segregated She Tales Up Were Where Would

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My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.

~David Dinkins

Topics: Came Cleaning Cooking Grandmother Here Mother New New York Other People She Were York

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My grandmother had a Ph.D in library science, so I grew up in a library, and I would appreciate those books and the smell of them and how they'd have these series, and it was cool to me. I always felt like, if I had an opportunity, I'd create an album that felt like a series.

~Dawn Richard

Topics: Album Always Appreciate Books Cool Create Felt Grandmother Grew Had How Library Like Me Opportunity Science Series Smell Them Those Up Would

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I lived in the library with my grandmother as a child. I still love the smell of books; the library card is still my friend.

~Dawn Richard

Topics: Books Card Child Friend Grandmother Library Lived Love My Friend Smell Still

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One of my favorite dishes, absolutely from my childhood, was something my grandmother made, on my mother's side. It was a shepherd's pie, and I really adored that.

~Dean Cain

Topics: Absolutely Adored Childhood Dishes Favorite Grandmother Made Mother Pie Really Shepherd Side Something

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I grew up in New York, and I've always been surrounded by fashion. My grandmother used to write for 'Vogue' in the '50s, and my mother was a dancer and a model.

~Dean O'Gorman

Topics: Always Been Dancer Fashion Grandmother Grew Model Mother New New York Surrounded Up Used Vogue Write York

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I grew up in New York, and I've always been surrounded by fashion. My grandmother used to write for 'Vogue' in the '50s, and my mother was a dancer and a model.

~Dean Winters

Topics: Always Been Dancer Fashion Grandmother Grew Model Mother New New York Surrounded Up Used Vogue Write York

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On the morning of Thanksgiving, I would wake up to the home smelling of all good things, wafting upstairs to my room. I would set the table with the fancy silverware and china and hope that my parents and grandmother wouldn't have the annual Thanksgiving fight about Richard Nixon.

~Debi Mazar

Topics: About Annual China Fancy Fight Good Good Things Grandmother Home Hope Morning Nixon Parents Richard Richard Nixon Room Set Smelling Table Thanksgiving Things Up Upstairs Wake Wake Up Would

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