Careers Quote by Tea Obreht

I would lie, because no one would know me anyway. My grandmother convinced me to be proud of what I do.

— Andy Hallett

I was always a person on my mother's hip in the kitchen. My mom really wanted her kids at her side as much as…

— Rachael Ray

The women in my family - my grandmother and my mother - have been both sources of comfort and terror. Protection was not always…

— Wendy C. Ortiz

We all have our muses. My grandmother and my mother are the people I write for. I'll never have to worry about who buys…

— Nikki Giovanni

I come from a family of traders; my grandmother and my mother were very good at making money.

— Anne Robinson

A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write…

— Sheryl Crow

Like as a fan of music, I feel like everything that I listen to influences my writing, whether it's a song where I know…

— Gracie Abrams

I'd say the music influences the writing - the music and rhythm of the prose - much more than the writing influences the music.

— Rob Roberge

I do own CDs by Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, and Joni Mitchell, but I don't think of them as being major influences on my…

— James Arthur

I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina,…

— Nicholas Sparks

I wanted people to know that my grandmother was the reason why I did comedy in the first place. She pushed me to really…

— Jermaine Fowler

“Too many men have died in the name of old age. I know, because my grandmother was one of them.”

— Jarod Kintz

In almost the same way you know what your grandmother looks and sounds like, you know what Bruce Willis looks and sounds like.

— Rian Johnson

I didn't actually even really know my grandmother; I must have been 3 or 4 when she died.

— Leandra Medine

You know what my grandmother said, eventually: 'When a man beats you, he doesn't like you. He has women issues and it starts probably…

— Michel'le