 Whether that was always the case or whether she scaled back her dreams as time went on and learned to deal with certain disappointments is not entirely clear.But she was just a very tough, sensible, no-nonsense person".During his teenage years, it was his grandmother who "injected" into him "a lot of that very midwestern, sort of traditional sense of prudence and hard work", even though "some of those values didn't sort of manifest themselves until I got older".