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My grandmother is bilingual, but she preferred to speak Spanish at home, so she would speak to us in Spanish, and everyone responded in English, sort of like what happens on 'Jane.'

~Andrea Navedo

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I'm really Americanized. The only real Latina thing I do is cook rice and beans with chuletas and tostones. I do the healthier version of what my grandmother would have made: a lot less salt, a lot less fat, a lot more vegetables. Sometimes I serve it with brown rice, which is, like, sacrilegious.

~Andrea Navedo

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Both my parents were atheists, and my grandmother was an atheist in rural Kentucky, and so they were trying to make sure that my brother and I would be atheists, too, and it worked, which doesn't mean that they didn't teach us a lot of wonder of science and of nature and the world and all of that.

~Andrew Sean Greer

Topics: Atheist Atheists Both Both My Parents Brother Grandmother Kentucky Lot Make Mean Nature Parents Rural Science Sure Teach Too Trying Us Were Which Wonder Worked World Would

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My grandmother wore a beehive hairdo even when it was out of fashion.

~Andrew Sean Greer

Topics: Beehive Even Fashion Grandmother Hairdo Out Wore

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My grandmother was not a great storyteller.

~Andrew Sean Greer

Topics: Grandmother Great Storyteller

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My Indian grandmother was born in Punjab.

~Andy Dunn

Topics: Born Grandmother Indian

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She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.

~Angelina Jolie

Topics: Am Grandmother How How Much Know Lives Miss Much Out Sad She Thrive Will Would I Am

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My maternal grandmother was a star on her high school basketball team in small-town Mississippi.

~Angie Thomas

Topics: Basketball Basketball Team Grandmother Her High High School Maternal Mississippi School Small-Town Star Team

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I was brought up to look after my parents. My family were Polish Jews, and we lived with my grandmother, with uncles and aunts and cousins all around, and I thought everybody lived like that.

~Anita Brookner

Topics: After Around Aunts Brought Cousins Everybody Family Grandmother Jews Like Lived Look Parents Polish Thought Uncles Up Were

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I can't tell you what will happen over the next four years. But I can only stand here tonight, as a wife, a mother, a grandmother, an American, and make you this solemn commitment: This man will not fail. This man will not let us down. This man will lift up America!

~Ann Romney

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