“When I'm following what a character does in a book I don't have to think about my own life. Where I am. Why I'm here. My moms and my brother and my old man. I can just think about the character's life and try and figure out what's gonna happen. Plus when you're in a group home you pretty much can't go anywhere, right? But when you read books you almost feel like you're out there in the world. Like you're going on this adventure right with the main character. At least, that's the way I do it. It's actually not that bad. Even if it is mad nerdy.” IfsThinkingMenWorldWayFeelsTryingDoeI CanBookCharacterHomeHappensMy OwnGroupsFiguresAdventureBrotherLike YouMomMadFollowingMy MomMy BrotherPlusOld ManMy Own LifeMain CharactersNerdy Author:Matt de la Pena
“[Barack Obama] will touch you on the shoulder and, you know - in that big brother or father figure kind of way. And you really do feel sort of shepherded by him.” KnowsWayFeelsKindBigsFatherFiguresBrotherShouldersBarackFather Figure Author:Jordan Peele
“Shooting at Quentin Tarantino movie was like a masterclass in directing. Although I went back literally right into rehearsal, started shooting... while I was doing it I had to write my Grindhouse trailer and I added two days of shooting. My brother was producing Hostel and the Grindhouse trailer and I was like: "Gabe, just figure this out!"” WritingTwoFiguresBrotherShootingMy BrotherRehearsalTwo DaysTrailersQuentinTarantino Author:Eli Roth
“When I was around Bowie, I was nearing the bottom. When we were touring together, I looked at him as a kind of big-brother figure and I also looked at him as somebody I had a lot of respect for. The age and the period he's at in his life, I'd like to be there some day. He has a kind of content peace about him that's something to shoot for.” KindBigsAgeTogetherFiguresBrotherPeriodsBottomTouringBowie Author:Trent Reznor
“Growing up in a house with six brothers and sisters is a lot like being on a tour bus. There's not a whole lot of private space, so you figure out how to make it work.” WholeHouseSpaceGrowing UpGrowingFiguresBrotherSixBusBrothers And Sisters Author:Michael Timmins
“That's always been like a fascination to me - watching my family, three sisters and a brother and all growing up basically in the same situation and each one being so totally different and going on to completely different areas and directions. But for me to go into psychoanalysis really steadily, would be putting too much energy into trying to figure out why I am the way I am... Basically this is how I am and it's alright and I don't want to know why I'm this way.” KnowsWayWantTryingDifferentWould BeThreeEnergySituationGrowing UpToo MuchGrowingFiguresBrotherAreasMy FamilyFascinationPsychoanalysisAlrightThree SistersI Am The Way I Am Author:Jessica Lange
“I have a cousin, a second cousin, who lives in L.A., and she was with me while I was getting ready. She was talking about her father and his brothers. And I remember my mother's tales of how competitive they were with each other and how they would play for blood, you know. And I thought - I'm an only child, and I don't know what that's like. I have to figure out the Southern thing.” KnowsChildrenPlayRememberMotherFatherTalkingBloodFiguresReadyBrotherTalesSouthernCousinOnly Child Author:Cynthia Nixon
“I did not write about that kind of insecurity and anxiety between myself and my brothers, because my father was the dominant male figure as I was growing up in that home.” WritingKindHomeFatherGrowing UpGrowingFiguresBrotherAnxietyMalesMy BrotherInsecurityDominant Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“My brothers were my peers, but they were not the preeminent male figures in my emotional life.” FiguresEmotionalBrotherMalesMy BrotherPeersEmotional Life Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“My brother and I met several times during that weekend trying to figure out what we were each going to do, and we met for breakfast the morning of the sit-in and I had decided that I was going to go get arrested, and he decided that he was going to have the harder job and go tell our parents that I'd been arrested.” TryingJobsParentMorningFiguresBrotherMetsDecidedHarderMy BrotherBreakfastWeekendArrested Author:Bill Ayers
“The death of Fidel Castro, of course, is not as significant when you first look at it, because Raul Castro, his brother, has been in power for years. But, in fact, he's been a looming figure even during his illness that I think has made a difference in holding us back in trying to open up more negotiations and move ahead with opening up relations between America and Cuba.” ThinkingTryingYearsFirstsLooksHas BeensMadeFactsAmericaMovingCoursesDifferencesFiguresBrotherRelationIllnessSignificantOpeningNegotiationCubaOpening UpCastroMoving AheadLooming Author:Amy Klobuchar