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My grandmother raised me. She was a real no-nonsense but very funny lady. I drove tractors, made hay...
CAROL BARTZ![]()
We are now living on Internet time. It's a new territory, and the cyber equivalent of the Oklaho...
ANDY GROVE Elizabeth won the girls' race fairly easily, ... After the first mile nobody was behind her to push ...
DEAN DAVIS I have a sister who is Elizabeth. If my sister was waiting in traffic, she wouldn't say she waited f...
KELLY BUTLER My idol when I was a kid was Elizabeth Taylor.
RITA MORENO![]()
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She...
ELLEN DEGENERES![]()
My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing ma...
MICHELLE PFEIFFER![]()
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we d...
ELLEN DEGENERES![]()
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we d...
ELLEN DEGENERES Elizabeth is 6 and has been involved since before she was born. Her mother was a walker while she wa...
BARBARA ATCHISON![]()
My mom had me at 16 and took me every place she went. I remember going on peace marches. She tried t...
DEBI MAZAR![]()
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She...
ELLEN DEGENERES![]()
Elizabeth Warren has very good proposals regarding Wall Street, but she really has not been leading ...
JILL STEIN![]()
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and ...
ELLEN DEGENERES![]()
Elizabeth Taylor. In her heyday, she was amazing.
JOE JONAS I am especially grateful for the memory of my grandmother, Maria Petrovna, who was the family's good...
ANDREI SAKHAROV![]()
My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying ...
GEOFFREY CANADA My great grandmother was feisty. She was determined to be around forever.
TARA STEWART When I met Rachel Robinson for the first time, she is a regal woman, and she was like a grandmother ...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN I grew up in Florida, which is the land of flea markets and swap meets. My grandmother loved to go t...
RANSOM RIGGS![]()
Cancer runs in our family. I lost my grandmother to it. There's a saying that you meet people an...
COTE DE PABLO Sugar Rush. We very much see this show as a good star vehicle for Warren.
KATHLEEN FINCH She loved to go but by the end of the first quarter, she was always asleep in her wagon.
DIANE BIEGA![]()
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat...
JOAN LINGARD She was disoriented. She really needed rehab. She was doing 'blows' [heroin]. She left my house when...
MARGARET COLEMAN I was telling my caddie, sometimes you don't think she realizes she is 16. I don't think we realize ...
LORENA OCHOA John Wayne's 9-year-old daughter really loved my show, and she wanted to meet me, ... So Duke got in...
GLEN CAMPBELL My grandmother was a Jewish juggler: she used to worry about six things at once.
RICHARD LEWIS My grandmother was a Jewish juggler: she used to worry about six things at once
RICHARD LEWIS![]()
I knew Elizabeth Taylor when she didn't know where her next husband was coming from
ANNE BAXTER![]()
My grandmother is British. She was in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during World War II. That&...
SARAH GADON![]()
Elizabeth I was my favourite monarch though, what an inspiration, she did great things for women.
KIRSTY GALLACHER My grandmother Izzy taught me to balance her checkbook when I was 6 years old. She would sign the ch...
MARY CALLAHAN ERDOES She was a great mother and a great grandmother.
JULIE FOGLESONG We knew rebounding was going to be the difference. When Warren was making its run, we had a crack in...
AMY HOLTSFORD My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend ...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER![]()
I grew up in Nacogdoches, Texas... raised by my grandmother. We were very poor and had no indoor plu...
ALANA STEWART I was surprised to find that the queen is actually a very friendly person. I felt very relaxed aroun...
ALVINA TAN![]()
I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandm...
JILL SCOTT I started gardening with my grandmother when I was 6,
DAVID GOWER![]()
My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.
RITA RUDNER![]()
My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish...
TOM FORD![]()
Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN![]()
The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN My grandmother was a chemist. She worked at the Banting Institute in Toronto, and at 44 she died of ...
EVA VERTES![]()
I was 16 when I got admission in Hans Raj College. I completed school when I was 16, so everyone in ...
ANURAG KASHYAP My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a tiny girl - in other words, ...
DERRICK JENSEN![]()
Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The ...
JOHN GREEN My grandmother used to go with her church to visit the soldiers at Walter Reed. But she had to stop....
CARL JACKSON I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was buil...
LAURA ESQUIVEL My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time. She raised us Baptis...
CURTIS JACKSON A helicopter from Port Elizabeth was dispatched and it picked me up along the way. When we arrived, ...
BOOL SMUTS My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her amo...
CASSANDRA WILSON My maternal grandmother had what might be described in a school report as a 'lively imagination....
JEREMY HARDY She drove right through the back of the garage. We always used to say my dad was never bored with my...
BRIDGET IDTENSOHN I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 sea...
GAIL PORTER I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16-sea...
GAIL PORTER I think my grandmother Woodrell was most responsible for my becoming a writer. She wasn't quite ...
DANIEL WOODRELL Living with my grandmother in Bath, I sort of thought I was living in the 19th century. My grandmoth...
CHARLES PALLISER I was pretty excited when The Little Red Wagon set the world's distance record in 1967.
MAVERICK GOLDEN![]()
My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC My grandmother was a maid and baby sitter, ... From the time she was a teenager until she was 85 yea...
IVAN ALLEN My mother was 13 when I was born. My childhood was pretty frantic, to say the least. My mother left ...
GEORGIA HOLT I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west si...
KELLI O'HARA One night in 2003, grandmother heard something knocking things. When she lit the lamp, she saw a sna...
BASHIR BUTANAZIBA I have a large collection of town cars because when I was just a snipe in the gutter, growing up in ...
CLIVE CUSSLER![]()
My grandmother was amazing. She completely believed in me and was very encouraging. She would go to ...
MARC JACOBS My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time.
CURTIS JACKSON She weighed 16 pounds when we got here when she should have weighed 45.
DAVID PARTON I grew up on a farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, a rural community south of Norman. My family moved to En...
HAROLD HAMM Reed: "I owe you big-time, Ronnie."
Ronnie: "You've been my best friend since kindergarten, Ree...
ROBIN FRIEDMAN My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.
SALLY PHILLIPS![]()
When I left, after my divorce, when I left Oklahoma, I never looked back. It was the future. It was ...
REBA MCENTIRE My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, bor...
JACK DAVENPORT I remember when it happened she didn't know where her father or her aunts or her grandmother was and...
JANICE WILLIAMS![]()
Even Lot might have been mistaken. But that’s what he promised ‘em – his virgin daughters, you...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN![]()
She always said, 'When I'm home, I've got to get things done, even if there are visitors. Elizabeth ...
JANE SMILEY What happened at Oklahoma, that's fairy-tale land. They had great talent there already.
ED CUNNINGHAM![]()
The Ptolemies were in fact Macedonian Greek, which makes Cleopatra approximately as Egyptian as Eliz...
STACY SCHIFF Elizabeth was not playing for the sake of exhibiting her virtuosity: she played for joy.
MARY STREET My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never kn...
WENDI DENG MURDOCH I was told by my grandmother?s cousin who was an actress in the ?20s ? she was 86 and I was 4 at the...
XENIA SEEBERG My mom was born in Mexico, she's been here ever since she was 16 and I'm here for her because I don'...
AMBROSIO GARCIA![]()
My grandmother was about 4'8
DEBBIE REYNOLDS My family fled Iran in October 1978 as a result of the coming revolution when I was two years old. I...
PARDIS SABETI![]()
My dad owned a propane company in Oklahoma.
JOHNNY BENCH![]()
I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my ...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Those who say, 'Well, she was just a drunk,' will get an understanding of what her demons were, what...
ADRIENNE BARBEAU![]()
My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
QUINCY JONES![]()
She thought about her cousins in Oklahoma, which was odd, since she'd never spent much time with the...
RICK RIORDAN She drove away from there. That was the last time she was seen. She did not return to her home on Ha...
LT. DENNIS DINSMORE My Great Grandmother Morrison fixed a book-rest to her spinning wheel so that she could read while s...
MARY LAWSON It looks like she drove farther south and then turned around when she realized she had gone too far.
BARBARA MATTHEWS I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 1...
HANK AZARIA![]()
My mother gave me a pair of diamond earrings when I was 13. It symbolised becoming a teenager. I als...
ERIN WASSON![]()
The land was ours before we were the land s. She was our land more than a hundred years before we we...
ROBERT FROST My grandmother used to play the organ. She has Alzheimer?s and is in a nursing home. Music helps her...
BROOKS YANG![]()
My grandmother was fond of painting and playing the piano. She had been given lessons by Emmanuel Ch...
YVES CHAUVIN![]()
My old boyfriend, Warren Beatty, used to say I was a late developer,' she reflects. 'He was ...
DIANE KEATON My grandmother was musically gifted, and Annie recognized that gift. My grandmother did the same for...
ANNIE WOLAVER
CAROL BARTZ
We are now living on Internet time. It's a new territory, and the cyber equivalent of the Oklaho... ANDY GROVE Elizabeth won the girls' race fairly easily, ... After the first mile nobody was behind her to push ...
DEAN DAVIS I have a sister who is Elizabeth. If my sister was waiting in traffic, she wouldn't say she waited f...
KELLY BUTLER My idol when I was a kid was Elizabeth Taylor.
RITA MORENO
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She... ELLEN DEGENERES
My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing ma... MICHELLE PFEIFFER
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we d... ELLEN DEGENERES
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we d... ELLEN DEGENERES Elizabeth is 6 and has been involved since before she was born. Her mother was a walker while she wa...
BARBARA ATCHISON
My mom had me at 16 and took me every place she went. I remember going on peace marches. She tried t... DEBI MAZAR
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She... ELLEN DEGENERES
Elizabeth Warren has very good proposals regarding Wall Street, but she really has not been leading ... JILL STEIN
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and ... ELLEN DEGENERES
Elizabeth Taylor. In her heyday, she was amazing. JOE JONAS I am especially grateful for the memory of my grandmother, Maria Petrovna, who was the family's good...
ANDREI SAKHAROV
My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying ... GEOFFREY CANADA My great grandmother was feisty. She was determined to be around forever.
TARA STEWART When I met Rachel Robinson for the first time, she is a regal woman, and she was like a grandmother ...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN I grew up in Florida, which is the land of flea markets and swap meets. My grandmother loved to go t...
RANSOM RIGGS
Cancer runs in our family. I lost my grandmother to it. There's a saying that you meet people an... COTE DE PABLO Sugar Rush. We very much see this show as a good star vehicle for Warren.
KATHLEEN FINCH She loved to go but by the end of the first quarter, she was always asleep in her wagon.
DIANE BIEGA
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat... JOAN LINGARD She was disoriented. She really needed rehab. She was doing 'blows' [heroin]. She left my house when...
MARGARET COLEMAN I was telling my caddie, sometimes you don't think she realizes she is 16. I don't think we realize ...
LORENA OCHOA John Wayne's 9-year-old daughter really loved my show, and she wanted to meet me, ... So Duke got in...
GLEN CAMPBELL My grandmother was a Jewish juggler: she used to worry about six things at once.
RICHARD LEWIS My grandmother was a Jewish juggler: she used to worry about six things at once
RICHARD LEWIS
I knew Elizabeth Taylor when she didn't know where her next husband was coming from ANNE BAXTER
My grandmother is British. She was in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during World War II. That&... SARAH GADON
Elizabeth I was my favourite monarch though, what an inspiration, she did great things for women. KIRSTY GALLACHER My grandmother Izzy taught me to balance her checkbook when I was 6 years old. She would sign the ch...
MARY CALLAHAN ERDOES She was a great mother and a great grandmother.
JULIE FOGLESONG We knew rebounding was going to be the difference. When Warren was making its run, we had a crack in...
AMY HOLTSFORD My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend ...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER
I grew up in Nacogdoches, Texas... raised by my grandmother. We were very poor and had no indoor plu... ALANA STEWART I was surprised to find that the queen is actually a very friendly person. I felt very relaxed aroun...
ALVINA TAN
I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandm... JILL SCOTT I started gardening with my grandmother when I was 6,
DAVID GOWER
My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping. RITA RUDNER
My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish... TOM FORD
Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN My grandmother was a chemist. She worked at the Banting Institute in Toronto, and at 44 she died of ...
EVA VERTES
I was 16 when I got admission in Hans Raj College. I completed school when I was 16, so everyone in ... ANURAG KASHYAP My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a tiny girl - in other words, ...
DERRICK JENSEN
Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The ... JOHN GREEN My grandmother used to go with her church to visit the soldiers at Walter Reed. But she had to stop....
CARL JACKSON I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was buil...
LAURA ESQUIVEL My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time. She raised us Baptis...
CURTIS JACKSON A helicopter from Port Elizabeth was dispatched and it picked me up along the way. When we arrived, ...
BOOL SMUTS My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her amo...
CASSANDRA WILSON My maternal grandmother had what might be described in a school report as a 'lively imagination....
JEREMY HARDY She drove right through the back of the garage. We always used to say my dad was never bored with my...
BRIDGET IDTENSOHN I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 sea...
GAIL PORTER I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16-sea...
GAIL PORTER I think my grandmother Woodrell was most responsible for my becoming a writer. She wasn't quite ...
DANIEL WOODRELL Living with my grandmother in Bath, I sort of thought I was living in the 19th century. My grandmoth...
CHARLES PALLISER I was pretty excited when The Little Red Wagon set the world's distance record in 1967.
MAVERICK GOLDEN
My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the ... MARINA ABRAMOVIC My grandmother was a maid and baby sitter, ... From the time she was a teenager until she was 85 yea...
IVAN ALLEN My mother was 13 when I was born. My childhood was pretty frantic, to say the least. My mother left ...
GEORGIA HOLT I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west si...
KELLI O'HARA One night in 2003, grandmother heard something knocking things. When she lit the lamp, she saw a sna...
BASHIR BUTANAZIBA I have a large collection of town cars because when I was just a snipe in the gutter, growing up in ...
CLIVE CUSSLER
My grandmother was amazing. She completely believed in me and was very encouraging. She would go to ... MARC JACOBS My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time.
CURTIS JACKSON She weighed 16 pounds when we got here when she should have weighed 45.
DAVID PARTON I grew up on a farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, a rural community south of Norman. My family moved to En...
HAROLD HAMM Reed: "I owe you big-time, Ronnie."
Ronnie: "You've been my best friend since kindergarten, Ree...
ROBIN FRIEDMAN My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.
SALLY PHILLIPS
When I left, after my divorce, when I left Oklahoma, I never looked back. It was the future. It was ... REBA MCENTIRE My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, bor...
JACK DAVENPORT I remember when it happened she didn't know where her father or her aunts or her grandmother was and...
JANICE WILLIAMS
Even Lot might have been mistaken. But that’s what he promised ‘em – his virgin daughters, you... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
She always said, 'When I'm home, I've got to get things done, even if there are visitors. Elizabeth ... JANE SMILEY What happened at Oklahoma, that's fairy-tale land. They had great talent there already.
ED CUNNINGHAM
The Ptolemies were in fact Macedonian Greek, which makes Cleopatra approximately as Egyptian as Eliz... STACY SCHIFF Elizabeth was not playing for the sake of exhibiting her virtuosity: she played for joy.
MARY STREET My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never kn...
WENDI DENG MURDOCH I was told by my grandmother?s cousin who was an actress in the ?20s ? she was 86 and I was 4 at the...
XENIA SEEBERG My mom was born in Mexico, she's been here ever since she was 16 and I'm here for her because I don'...
AMBROSIO GARCIA
My grandmother was about 4'8 DEBBIE REYNOLDS My family fled Iran in October 1978 as a result of the coming revolution when I was two years old. I...
PARDIS SABETI
My dad owned a propane company in Oklahoma. JOHNNY BENCH
I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my ... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Those who say, 'Well, she was just a drunk,' will get an understanding of what her demons were, what...
ADRIENNE BARBEAU
My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door. QUINCY JONES
She thought about her cousins in Oklahoma, which was odd, since she'd never spent much time with the... RICK RIORDAN She drove away from there. That was the last time she was seen. She did not return to her home on Ha...
LT. DENNIS DINSMORE My Great Grandmother Morrison fixed a book-rest to her spinning wheel so that she could read while s...
MARY LAWSON It looks like she drove farther south and then turned around when she realized she had gone too far.
BARBARA MATTHEWS I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 1...
HANK AZARIA
My mother gave me a pair of diamond earrings when I was 13. It symbolised becoming a teenager. I als... ERIN WASSON
The land was ours before we were the land s. She was our land more than a hundred years before we we... ROBERT FROST My grandmother used to play the organ. She has Alzheimer?s and is in a nursing home. Music helps her...
BROOKS YANG
My grandmother was fond of painting and playing the piano. She had been given lessons by Emmanuel Ch... YVES CHAUVIN
My old boyfriend, Warren Beatty, used to say I was a late developer,' she reflects. 'He was ... DIANE KEATON My grandmother was musically gifted, and Annie recognized that gift. My grandmother did the same for...
ANNIE WOLAVER
Living in the light of eternity changes your priorities. 
The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. 
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line. 
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world. 
I gotta do what I think is right, and if enough people like it, I'm a winner. And if they don... 
Ray Harryhausen's 'Sinbad' picture was the first film I remember seeing. I was two years... 
Gamers both demand and deserve novelty. They need something new. As a game developer, one of my rule... 
You don't just throw the ball - you propel it. 
When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two. 
Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off i... 
In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to. 
I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Cathol... 