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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.

~Al Pacino

Topics: After Army Became College College Education Dad Education Got Grandfather Grandmother He His Insurance Know Maternal Mother Raised Really Salesman Split Up Very War Well World World War World War Ii I Was Raised

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My grandmother always came to my shows. She was always concerned about the way I dressed - even later on, when I was well known and I supported her.

~Al Pacino

Topics: About Always Came Concerned Dressed Even Grandmother Her Known Later She Shows Supported Way Well Well Known

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My grandmother did all the cooking at Christmas. We ate fattened chicken. We would feed it even more so it would be big and fat.

~Alain Ducasse

Topics: Ate Big Chicken Christmas Cooking Did Even Fat Feed Grandmother More Would

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My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.

~Alan Bradley

Topics: Aerial Balloon Basket Beloved Canada Day England Flew Grandmother Her Husband Last Life London Meant Meant To Be New Once Only Ride She Skies Soon Victorian View Were

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I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands.

~Alan Bradley

Topics: Been Believed Books Child Delighted Early Father Favorite Forbidden Frivolous Grandchildren Grandmother Had Hands Her Putting Read Reader Volumes Who

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I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.

~Alan Bradley

Topics: Been Being Books British Brought Canada Developed Early England English Family Filled Grandmother Great Great Love Grew Had House Love Magazines Newspapers Piles Reader Really Surrounded Up Very Who

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My grandmother, whom I adored, and who partly raised me, loved Liberace, and she watched Liberace every afternoon, and when she watched Liberace, she'd get dressed up and put on makeup because I think she thought if she could see Liberace, Liberace could see her.

~Alan Furst

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My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever.

~Alan Garner

Topics: Child Folk Grandmother Had Interest Me Mother No Interest Nursery Read Rhymes Stories Whatsoever Writing

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My own experience with trains dates to long-ago childhood trips with my family in Mississippi to see my grandmother off at the station in Jackson, bound for Memphis.

~Alan Huffman

Topics: Bound Childhood Dates Experience Family Grandmother Jackson Memphis Mississippi My Own Off Own See Station Trains Trips

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I grew up in Nacogdoches, Texas... raised by my grandmother. We were very poor and had no indoor plumbing. My grandmother was a very religious woman, though, and she gave me a lot of faith and inner strength.

~Alana Stewart

Topics: Faith Gave Grandmother Grew Had Inner Inner Strength Lot Me Plumbing Poor Raised Religious She Strength Texas Though Up Very Were Woman

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