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- noun United States painter of colorful and primitive rural scenes (1860-1961)
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Grandma Moses didn't start painting until she was almost 80.
Ken Dychtwald Ph.D.: S&P Decided Your Aging Parents Are Destroying America: Is That OK With You? Ken Dychtwald Ph.D. 2011
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Grandma Moses didn't start painting until she was almost 80.
Ken Dychtwald Ph.D.: S&P Decided Your Aging Parents Are Destroying America: Is That OK With You? Ken Dychtwald Ph.D. 2011
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Grandma Moses didn't start painting until she was almost 80.
Ken Dychtwald Ph.D.: S&P Decided Your Aging Parents Are Destroying America: Is That OK With You? Ken Dychtwald Ph.D. 2011
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Grandma Moses didn't start painting until she was almost 80.
Ken Dychtwald Ph.D.: S&P Decided Your Aging Parents Are Destroying America: Is That OK With You? Ken Dychtwald Ph.D. 2011
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Or Grandma Moses, who I feared I might pass in 'firsts.'
Randy Susan Meyers: My Opposite-of-Overnight Success Publishing Story Randy Susan Meyers 2012
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Since boredom is said to inspire creativity, Casey could be a composite of Grandma Moses, the guy who invented PostIts and Mavin Hamlisch, if only he had opposable thumbs.
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I don't want to be a downer but Grandma Moses is an historical anomoly.
Integrity and/or Impotence EAGEAGEAG 2009
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I don't mean Grandma Moses type art, but that once someone is beyond "a certain age," and is just plain old, even if they've never shown before, don't they have a certain cache?
Integrity and/or Impotence EAGEAGEAG 2009
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Now when the 20 somethings who will be expected for fork over a good portion of thier paycheck for Grandma Moses' hip replacement while they wait 3 months to see thier doc for a checkup then we'll see how many think it's a great plan.
"If the graph showed that rising expenditures on computer technology had eaten up all the increase in Americans' paychecks..." Ann Althouse 2009
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Grandma Moses didn't begin to paint until she was eighty years old.
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