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Craig T. Nelson, who played my grandfather on 'Parenthood,' gave me a lot of advice at the end of the show. I'm really insecure, and I get uncomfortable with things, and he gave me a lot of advice about that.
Miles Heizer
Me
Advice
Gave
Insecure
Nelson
About
Parenthood
Uncomfortable
He
Lot
End
Get
Craig
Grandfather
Really
Show
Who
Things
Played
My grandfather was wary of me being a part of the industry for various reasons, ranging from the fact that we didn't know anybody; it was an unconventional career choice, and because he felt that I needed somebody to guide me.
Mithila Palkar
Me
Somebody
Guide
Various
Various Reasons
Fact
He
Part
Unconventional
Know
Industry
Because
Felt
Anybody
Being
Grandfather
Choice
Reasons
Wary
Career
Career Choice
Needed
The truth is that my grandfather was quite wealthy, a shipbuilder.
Mohamed Al-Fayed
Truth
Truth Is
Wealthy
Quite
Grandfather
My grandparents used to pray five times a day, but they were quiet about their own thing. Completely liberal day by day; my grandmother was a social worker and my grandfather was an engineer, but they never talked about religion. My entire life I couldn't remember one conversation I had with them about religion.
Mohsin Hamid
Life
Day
Religion
Conversation
Remember
Engineer
Own
Liberal
Entire
About
Entire Life
Never
Had
Talked
Pray
Were
Five
Times
Quiet
Social
Them
Grandfather
Worker
Grandmother
Grandparents
Used
Thing
I was named after my Jewish grandfather who left Poland early in the 20th century. What I knew from an early age was that he had lived most of his life in England, his Jewish wife had died, and he married a non-Jewish woman who was my grandmother.
Morris Gleitzman
Life
Woman
Age
Wife
Married
Had
He
Knew
Poland
Named
Most
His
Left
Died
After
Century
Grandfather
Grandmother
England
Who
Lived
Early
Early Age
Jewish
It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.'
Mos Def
Few
Bad
Entire
Cast
Spoil
Fair
Cultural
Bunch
Movement
Quote
Grandfather
Whole
Actions
Based
Apple
Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
Naeem Khan
Needs
Family
Business
Three
Every
Khan
Mine
Has-Been
Embroidery
About
Glamour
Generations
Because
Been
His
Story
Grandfather
Designer
Started
'Manam' will always be close to my heart, and I will cherish the the memories of shooting with my grandfather all my life.
Naga Chaitanya
Life
Memories
Heart
Will
My Life
All My Life
Always
Cherish
Close
Shooting
Grandfather
Stampede Wrestling was a promotion started by my grandfather, Stu Hart. When I was competing for them, I would come out 'through the curtain,' slapping everyone's hands to my ring song, Cyndi Lauper's 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun.'
Natalya Neidhart
Have Fun
Song
Girl
Everyone
Hart
Out
Would
Ring
Promotion
Wrestling
Through
Come
Hands
Just
Want
Curtain
Them
Grandfather
Fun
Slapping
Competing
Started
My dad's career in politics, along with that of my grandfather, Prescott Bush, taught us that good people motivated by helping others can jump into the political fray and make a positive difference.
Neil Bush
Positive
Politics
Good
People
Political
Good People
Others
Along
Make
Motivated
Jump
Taught
Difference
Bush
Grandfather
Us
Helping
Dad
Career
I used to have a lovely wallet with lots of different compartments where I kept photographs of my grandmother, grandfather and friends. It was stolen one night when I was out in Edinburgh, and I never got it back.
Neve McIntosh
Back
Out
Photographs
One-Night
Never
Edinburgh
Got
Lots
Friends
Wallet
Stolen
Where
Different
Lovely
Grandfather
Grandmother
Used
Night
Kept
People have to render judgment. In my case, I've said upfront openly, I've made mistakes at times. I've had to go to God for forgiveness. I've had to seek reconciliation. But I'm also a 68-year-old grandfather, and I think people have to measure who I am now and whether I'm a person they can trust.
Newt Gingrich
God
Forgiveness
Trust
People
Made
Mistakes
Judgment
Think
Reconciliation
Seek
Case
Had
Openly
Render
Also
Said
Am
Go
Times
Upfront
Person
Whether
Grandfather
Measure
Who
Now
My father, a refugee from Eastern Europe, was preparing a fraudulent marriage to an American citizen as a route to this country when he was sponsored, making fraud unnecessary. My wife's grandfather bought papers from another Chinese villager to be able to come to the United States.
Nicholas Kristof
Marriage
Father
Wife
Citizen
Country
States
Papers
Unnecessary
Fraud
Eastern
Fraudulent
Eastern Europe
Able
He
Bought
Sponsored
Come
Another
Making
American
American Citizen
Refugee
Chinese
Grandfather
Europe
Preparing
United
United States
Route
To me, a Harris Tweed jacket is the kind of thing you should be able to have in your closet years from now - possibly it was your father's jacket or, even better, your grandfather's jacket.
Nick Wooster
Me
You
Better
Father
Harris
Kind
Possibly
Able
Years
Jacket
Closet
Grandfather
Should
Your
Even
Now
Thing
My grandfather went through a lot in his life.
Novak Djokovic
Life
Through
His
Lot
Grandfather
When people say 'Charlie Chaplin' I still think now of the guy in the moustache and bowler hat and funny walk - I don't think of an old man who was my grandfather.
Oona Chaplin
Funny
Man
People
Walk
Old
Think
Chaplin
Say
Hat
People Say
Charlie
Charlie Chaplin
Guy
Bowler
Still
Moustache
Grandfather
Old Man
Who
Now
My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband.
Pamela Anderson
Great
Wonderful
Father
Husband
He
Terrible
Great-Grandfather
Grandfather
My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.
Pamela Sargent
Will
Long
Own
Doubt
Live
Enough
Mars
See
Strongly
My Own
Except
Allowed
Course
How
Fiction
Might
Grandfather
Landing
Even
Including
Ever
My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.
Parker Posey
Me
Reminded
Cousin
Lefty
Grandfather
Dad
Recently
I've always been into dressing nicely. My dad's really into fashion, also. We'll always go out and buy stuff. He has his own style and I have my own style, but it's a shared thing. Same thing with my grandfather; he was really into his style, so it's just sort of been passed down, I think.
Patrick Schwarzenegger
Buy
Fashion
Style
Own
Same Thing
Down
Think
Out
Dressing
My Own
He
Shared
Stuff
Also
Sort
Always
Passed
Go
Been
His
Same
Just
Grandfather
Really
Dad
Nicely
Thing
Curtis Axel has more talent than his grandfather and his father.
Paul Heyman
Father
More
Talent
His
Than
Grandfather
I was born and raised in the Bronx and my grandfather and my brother Garry were huge Yankees fans. One of my first memories is of them listening to a game on the radio and screaming at the radio. My brother would cry when they lost, and when I was really little, I didn't know why he was crying.
Penny Marshall
Game
Memories
Listening
Fans
First
Lost
Bronx
Would
Brother
Born
He
Know
Cry
Crying
Yankees
Were
Huge
Screaming
Little
Them
Grandfather
Really
Radio
Why
Garry
Raised
I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions.
Pete du Pont
Great
Family
Business
Dangerous
Father
Ancestors
Has-Been
Gunpowder
Both
Almost
Come
Great-Grandfather
Were
Been
His
Years
Very
Grandfather
Explosions
Here
Started
Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid.
Peter Agre
Depression
Age
Mother
Lost
Farm
Herself
Maid
Had
Support
She
Because
Place
Grandfather
Worked
Her
Assistant
For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth.
Peter Capaldi
Robber
Know
Bank
Grandfather
My mother was from West Bromwich; my grandfather was Pakistani. I had an aunt who started trying to trace the family tree and stopped when she saw what turned up.
Peter Hammill
Family
Mother
Tree
Saw
Had
Trace
She
West
Aunt
Up
Trying
Stopped
Grandfather
Turned
Who
Pakistani
Started
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