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		My maternal grandmother made fantastic ox tongue with velvety roasted potatoes. She cooked sweet red cabbage and lovely cauliflower with butter and bread crumbs.
	
	  Yotam Ottolenghi Yotam Ottolenghi
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		My grandmother came with me when I moved out to New York. She stayed with me for a week. I was, you know, living in the dorm. The first year, I had a lot of anxiety, and, I remember, my teachers kept saying I had so much jaw tension.
	
	  Jessica Chastain Jessica Chastain
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		My grandmother, who picked cotton, and my mom, who picked cotton as a child - my grandmother had a work ethic. She had 13 children that she had to raise and ended up for a time moving into the projects, but because my grandmother had a work ethic, she didn't stay in the projects... that's not how she wanted to raise her children.
	
	  Derrick Grayson Derrick Grayson
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		You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
	
	  Ellen DeGeneres Ellen DeGeneres
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		My grandmother certainly does not care for celebrity.
	
	  Prince William Prince William
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		I'd sell my grandmother for a bit of definition.
	
	  Paddy Ashdown Paddy Ashdown
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		My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful mother, Elsa, he expected her to give up her career as a champion ballroom dancer and become a good wife and mother, which she dutifully did.
	
	  Joan Collins Joan Collins
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		At lunchtime, our kitchen was like a mini restaurant: my grandmother and mother had to cook for as many as 25 people - extended family plus 10 employees. We ate a lot of cabbage and a lot of potatoes.
	
	  Jean-Georges Vongerichten Jean-Georges Vongerichten
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		My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.
	
	  James Earl Jones James Earl Jones
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		My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10 percent right away to charity.'
	
	  Patrick Schwarzenegger Patrick Schwarzenegger
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		To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.
	
	  William Shakespeare William Shakespeare
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		There is a tradition in Southern cooking of recipes handed down for generations. And when I make my grandmother's strawberry pie I feel her right with me.
	
	  Kimberly Schlapman Kimberly Schlapman
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		I don't think people should be fed mesclun salad and chicken breast. My grandmother would serve grits and oxtail stew at a formal dinner, and if you didn't like it, well then you ate more beans or you went home and ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
	
	  Marjorie Gubelmann Marjorie Gubelmann
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		Cancer runs in our family. I lost my grandmother to it. There's a saying that you meet people and instantly know them. My grandmother and I had that. The first time my heart was broken was when my grandmother passed away. I was twenty-one.
	
	  Cote de Pablo Cote de Pablo
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		My grandmother always used to wear this English perfume called Tuberose and then she died and then I dated this girl who wore the same thing. Every time I hung out with her, I could only think of my recently deceased grandmother. So sometimes a signature scent can be good and sometimes it can be bad.
	
	  Mark Ronson Mark Ronson
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		My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works of art, being an admirer of Matisse and Giaometti, whom I collected as a young man because of her.
	
	  Jacob Rothschild Jacob Rothschild
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		I grew up with my little brother, and we were raised by my grandmother. I was an insider for real. I stayed in the house a lot, writing songs or playing video games, watching TV, or chilling with my girlfriend.
	
	  Bryson Tiller Bryson Tiller
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		Living with my grandmother in Bath, I sort of thought I was living in the 19th century. My grandmother was someone who, in a way, was rather defiantly trying to live a pre-World War I existence.
	
	  Charles Palliser Charles Palliser