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I have dark skin. My nickname is El Negro. They call me El Negro in Mexico because even in my country, the dark skin is evidence of Indian blood, a sign that one technically belongs to a third class. Even my grandmother had some kind of differentiation with me, because I was darker than my siblings.

~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Topics: Because Belongs Blood Call Class Country Dark Darker Differentiation Even Evidence Grandmother Had Indian Kind Me Mexico Nickname Sibling Sign Skin Some Technically Than Third

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There are mothers who sew for six months to make a fashion collection - someone's grandmother, someone's sister. We come in and get paid to walk for 10 minutes at the end. Whenever I think about that, I realise it's not about me. I was just the one chosen to represent those women and sell the clothes.

~Alek Wek

Topics: About Chosen Clothes Collection Come End Fashion Get Grandmother Just Make Me Minutes Months Mothers Paid Realise Represent Sell Sew Sister Six Someone Think Those Walk Whenever Who Women I Think

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I was a math whiz who stunk at English, so of course I wanted to be a writer more than anything in the world. I performed impromptu plays for my grandmother's sewing circle but forced my little sister to ask for ketchup at McDonald's.

~Alethea Kontis

Topics: Anything Ask Circle Course English Forced Grandmother Impromptu Ketchup Little Math Mcdonald More More Than Anything Performed Plays Sewing Sister Than Wanted Who World Writer

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Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy my daughters bring me.

~Alexandra Stoddard

Topics: Being Best Bring Daughters Grandchildren Grandmother Joy Life Me Mother Multiply My Life

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My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants in New York in the early '20s. My mother's family came over from Ireland generations ago.

~Alexis Denisof

Topics: Although Came Early Early 20S Family French Generations Grandfather Grandmother Her Immigrants Ireland Met Moscow Mother New New York Outside Over Some Were York

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I interned at NASA for five years, and I grew up in Cape Canaveral, and my grandfather was an engineer on the Mercury capsule, and my grandmother was a software engineer. I literally grew up playing on the Mercury capsule prototypes.

~Allison Schroeder

Topics: Cape Engineer Five Grandfather Grandmother Grew Literally Mercury Nasa Playing Prototype Software Up Years

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Soaps are one of the few areas on TV that really embrace older women. In drama, there's this ridiculous invisibility for women between the ages of 40 and 60. Unless you're old enough to play a grandmother, there just aren't the roles.

~Amanda Donohoe

Topics: Ages Area Between Drama Embrace Enough Few Grandmother Invisibility Just Old Old Enough Older Older Women Play Really Ridiculous Roles Soaps Tv Unless Women You

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My mother was an opera singer and my grandmother a concert pianist, and they only liked classical music. If I put on a pop record, they would tell me to turn it off, so I only listen to classical.

~Amanda Eliasch

Topics: Classical Classical Music Concert Grandmother Liked Listen Me Mother Music Off Only Opera Opera Singer Pianist Pop Put Record Singer Tell Turn Would

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My grandmother, who was simultaneously a woman of manners and verve, fended off marriage proposals until she was 30 because she was having too much fun to settle down.

~Amor Towles

Topics: Because Down Fun Grandmother Having Manners Marriage Much Off Proposals Settle She Simultaneously Too Too Much Until Who Woman

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My grandmother tended to divide life into 'nice' and 'not so nice.' Life in America, her apartment, her grandchildren: 'nice'; life before 1915: 'not so nice.' That's all I heard.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: America Apartment Before Divide Grandchildren Grandmother Heard Her Life Nice Nice Life

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