Jade Jagger Quotes
I used to call my grandmother 'Nana,' so that seems right to me, but maybe I'll just be 'Jade', in that modern way.
Jade Jagger
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People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.
Zach Galifianakis
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
V. S. Naipaul
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All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.
Mamie Gummer
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
Gabrielle Zevin
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When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.
Karin Slaughter
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My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.
Lamar Odom
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
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My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.
Padma Lakshmi
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What's really important? That I'm an individual, I guess. I am an individual - a strong one, too. I'm Natalie Cole. I gotta be me.
Natalie Cole
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My mom and grandmother were actresses, and I knew I was going to do this since I was super young. I would put on shows at my grandparents' house and sing 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' in the living room. I was in drama club and chorus, and I knew every word to 'Grease.'
Zoe Kravitz
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I eat only simple Indian home food - sabzi, roti, dal, chawal, ghee. There are so many benefits of having ghee. My grandmother is 84 and she is still fit and looks beautiful.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
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My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
Quincy Jones
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I was really surprised when I was told that my grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister Chandranshu, and my birth was a big disappointment for her.
Saina Nehwal
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For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving grandmother.
Kara Swisher
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My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.
Yelawolf
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There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.
Kara DioGuardi
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With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?
Nathan Myhrvold
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You don't have to look far to taste some of the best food the world has to offer. I'd pit my grandmother against a 3-star Michelin chef any day.
Nadia Giosia
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I had a very close relationship with my grandmother. She actually helped raise me.
Brina Palencia
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Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally.
Creed Bratton
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I definitely think religion is responsible for a lot of the evils of the world. I mean that's not really in debate. But at the same time, I think whatever gets you through the day, whatever helps you make sense of life I'm not gonna begrudge my grandmother with her rosary beads. It works for them. And at the end of the day, I don't claim to know the answer to anything.
Conor Oberst
Bright Eyes
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It takes time for brown people and people of different ethnicities to get into the Hollywood world, which is predominantly Caucasian and African American.
Utkarsh Ambudkar
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Faced with terror, France must be strong, it must be great, and the state authorities must be firm.
Francois Hollande
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I used to call my grandmother 'Nana,' so that seems right to me, but maybe I'll just be 'Jade', in that modern way.
Jade Jagger
