“My roommate in college in Austin, Texas, was Wes Anderson. Wes always wanted to be a director. I was an English major in college, and he got us to work on a screenplay together. And then, in working on the screenplay, he wanted my brother, Luke, and me to act in this thing. We did a short film that was kind of a first act of what became Bottle Rocket.” FirstsKindWantedTogetherFilmCollegeBrotherDirectorsMajorsMy BrotherBottlesTexasRocketsScreenplaysLukeAustinRoommateShort FilmsEnglish MajorAustin TexasBottle Rocket Author:Owen Wilson
“We're not unique in our family. We're more ambitious but we're not special. I'm not funnier than anyone else in my family; it's just that we wanted more than Raleigh, North Carolina, had to offer. If my brother wanted more than Raleigh had to offer, you would know his name. My sister Lisa has a really unique and different voice, but she doesn't want that. She's a fine writer, but never said, "I want a book. I want that kind of attention."” IfsKnowsWantKindSaidBookDifferentWantedNamesVoiceAttentionSpecialBrotherFineOffersUniqueMy FamilyOur FamilyMy BrotherMy SisterAmbitiousCarolinaNorth CarolinaDifferent VoicesRaleigh Author:David Sedaris
“I grew up with boys of all kinds - I have two brothers, and I was in a bagpipe band for several years.” YearsKindTwoBoysBrotherGrewBandGrew UpAll KindsTwo BrothersBagpipes Author:Maggie Stiefvater
“I would have done anything. I just really love the Duplass brothers. I was at a place where I was desperate for good writing. It wasn't the part that attracted me to it; it was just to be able to work with them. And the fact that she's this kind of, like, loose cannon and this kind of desperate 40-year-old is just the icing on the cake.” WritingYearsKindDoneFactsAbleBrotherDesperateCakeGood WritingCannonsIcingIcing On The Cake Author:Amanda Peet
“My agent came to me with a deal from another publisher and I signed a deal and got the advance with no idea of what I was going to do. I probably procrastinated for almost a year, but we had meetings and I was basically going to spoof "Take Ivy," but then it kind of turned into something else. I wanted it to be a book of all the things that made me who I am, like Brooks Brothers, Hot Wheels, "The Andy Griffith Show" and G.I. Joes. I couldn't sit still and do it, so my agent had to come to my house and force me to do it.” YearsKindMadeStillsBookIdeasShowsWantedHouseForceDealsBrotherHotMeetingsWho I AmAgentsNo IdeaWheelsPublishersBrooksIvySpoofAndy Griffith ShowBrooks Brothers Author:Mark McNairy
“I had no idea that that was around in the family anywhere. Maybe it never was. But - so they broke the way for me, if you know what I mean. I have no idea where I got the idea from to do what I do. But I think they - Ian and Alistair, my brothers kind of opened a lot of doors for me onto the world - you know, made it seem to be a very, very interesting place.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldWayKindMeanMadeIdeasSeemsInterestingDoorsBrotherMade ItBrokeNo IdeaMy BrotherVery InterestingInteresting Places Author:Maggie Smith
“Now Ben Folds is my photography older brother. He was kind enough to give me a photo of his for my 40th birthday.” GivingKindEnoughBrotherPhotographyGive MeFoldsOlder Brother40th Birthday Author:Jason Sudeikis
“There was a big age difference between me and my brothers - about 10 years - so I was an only child for a long time. I used to hang out a lot on my own. I played a lot of weird games with a lot of imaginary people. I guess it's kind of roleplaying.” PeopleYearsKindChildrenLongBigsAgeUsedGamesDifferencesMy OwnBrotherLong TimeMy BrotherHanging OutImaginaryOnly ChildAge Difference Author:Noel Fielding
“I am a big fan of the Coen Brothers; I like their kind of absurd, dark approach.” KindBigsDarkFansBrotherApproachAbsurdCoen Brothers Author:Volker Bertelmann
“It's also one thing to see a celebrity or some kind of character on a TV show being gay. It's a totally different thing when you know your husband... not your husband, but your brother or your friend or the dude you hung out in high school was gay. I mean, that is what changes people's minds, what changes people's minds.” PeopleKnowsMindKindMeanDifferentCharacterShowsSchoolOne ThingBrotherTvsGayHusbandHigh SchoolDifferent ThingsHungTv ShowsYour BrotherYour HusbandBeing Gay Author:Andrew Sullivan
“I went to Our Lady of Mercy, parochial school and I started Fordham Prep, but that only lasted about a year and then I - to me, it was like going to some kind of concentration camp. I was not very happy. And I only went there because that's where my brother went, really.” YearsKindSchoolBrotherMercyMy BrotherConcentrationCampsVery HappyConcentration CampPreps Author:Robert Barry
“The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married. If my brother gets hit by a car tomorrow, my sister-in-law will go on living materially in the same way that she does now. If the same thing happens to me, a great deal of what I have will go off to the taxman. That's because of one of, as you doubtless know, eleven hundred federal laws that favor marriage.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayKindDoeHappensFacesLawResultsDealsCarBrotherGoes OnTomorrowGayMarriedHundredFinancialBurdenAbsenceFavorsThings HappenAll KindsMy BrotherMy SisterElevenIn-lawsGay PeopleSister In LawFinancial Burden Author:Andrew Solomon
“I think that the film ["Jim Younger"] still resonates, because there's just something that you can't fake about those kinds of relationships. When you see James and Stacy Keach on the screen together, they're brothers!” ThinkingKindStillsTogetherFilmBrotherScreensFake Author:Keith Carradine
“I'm an only child. Which is kind of bad, because having a brother or sister is like another form of friendship. That's something I've missed out on, except I know that I couldn't be doing what I am doing now if I had brothers and sisters.” IfsKnowsKindChildrenFormBrotherBrothers And SistersOnly Child Author:Natalie Portman
“When you've got a mother who's given birth to eight children, you know, often without any kind of medical intervention - just she gave birth to one of my brothers sort of on the bedroom floor in front of all of us -you know, you see that women are fairly capable.” KnowsKindChildrenMotherGivenFrontsBrotherBirthCapableEightMedicalMy BrotherBedroomIntervention Author:Caitlin Moran
“I watched the video [ with my first commercial] when I was 20, and in the video, there are two families. The first family is this smiling blond Partridge family, a Californian/Aryan kind of thing, all playing guitars, all singing together and harmonizing. And then, there's my family - and in my family, it starts with my mom saying that she feels like a drill sergeant sometimes, and she's yelling at one of my brothers to stop hitting another one of my brothers. It's just like, "Great, we're that family." It felt a little Simpsons versus Flanders.” FeelsFirstsKindLittlesTwoSometimesTogetherFeltBrotherMomSingingMy FamilyGuitarMy MomVideoMy BrotherHittingVersusYellingDrillsPlaying GuitarSergeantsCaliforniansFlandersSinging TogetherDrill Sergeant Author:Mara Wilson
“As a female in a home with a whole bunch of brothers and being very close to my father, without a mother and later having a hostile relationship with my stepmother, there were all kinds of Freudian issues rising from possessing a female body that I had to negotiate with no guidance, and I did this negotiation almost instinctually.” KindWholeHomeBodyMotherFatherIssuesBrotherFemaleBunchAll KindsGuidanceRisingNegotiationHostilePossessingFemale BodyStepmothers Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“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
“Baseball I played literally from the time I can remember. My dad had played, my older brother played, so I always wanted to be like my older brother. That just kind of was a natural thing that I fell into.” KindI CanWantedRememberNaturalBrotherDadBaseballMy DadNatural ThingsOlder Brother Author:Tyler Hoechlin
“The reconciliation is not based on the fact that one of the characters opens his eyes and says, "O brother! O sister! How terrible I was! How right and wonderful you were! Please forgive me! Let's hug and love each other from now until the rest of eternity!" This is not the kind of reconciliation I write about; I write about sad, sober, sometimes heart-breaking compromises.” WritingHeartKindSometimesCharacterFactsEyeWonderfulBrotherTerriblePleaseAnd LoveEternityForgivingCompromiseHis EyesHugSoberReconciliationLove Each OtherForgive MeHeart BreakingPlease Forgive Me Author:Amos Oz
“Same with the Coen brothers and Warren [Beatty]. And then slowly you get to know each one of them as a person, and that becomes a kind of separate entity, where you just know the human being.” KnowsHumansKindPersonsHuman BeingsBrotherEntityBeattyCoen Brothers Author:Alden Ehrenreich
“It feels like you're being invited into a kind of community [working with the Coen brothers].” FeelsKindCommunityBrotherLike YouInvitedCoen Brothers Author:Alden Ehrenreich
“One of my favorite comics is Love and Rockets by the Hernandez Brothers. They do such a wonderful job of showing you how the character of Maggie ages and really doesn't present that with any kind of judgment.” KindCharacterAgeJobsWonderfulBrotherJudgmentMy FavoriteRocketsMaggie Author:Cliff Chiang
“There were internal critics, sharp critics, who were very opposed to [Malcolm X], and who were very - some of them were members of Elijah Mohammad's family, such as Herbert Mohammad, Raymond Shareef, who was the head of the Fruit of Islam, the brother-in-law of - the son-in-law of Elijah Mohammad. They isolated Malcolm X and kept him out of the newspaper of the organization Mohammad Speaks for over a year, which is kind of curious.” YearsKindLawSpeakSonBrotherMembersOrganizationFruitCriticsIslamNewspapersCuriousInternalsIsolatedIn-lawsElijahBrother In LawSon-in-law Author:Manning Marable
“I had met Michael Stipe, and he was such a kind person, and extremely understanding, so I asked him if he knew a photographer who would come to Detroit, where I lived, who would be child friendly and who would respect my home. Michael suggested Steven [ Sebring]. One day a knock came at my door, and when I opened it, there was Steven. He's been like a brother ever since.” IfsKindChildrenPersonsHomeWould BeUnderstandingDoorsBrotherMetsOne DayPhotographerFriendlyDetroitKind Person Author:Patti Smith
“Both of the Quaid brothers, Randy and Dennis, were in my class, and Tommy Schlamme, who produced and directed The West Wing with Aaron Sorkin, among many others. Marianne Williamson, who did A Course In Miracles, she was in my high-school drama class, too. So it was kind of an amazing class.” KindSchoolCoursesClassBrotherDramaHigh SchoolMiracleWingsWestRandyQuaidDrama ClassCourse In Miracles Author:Brent Spiner
“A political decision has been made not to irritate the intelligence community. The spy agencies are really embarrassed, they're really sore - the revelations really hurt their mystique. The last ten years, they were getting the Zero Dark Thirty treatment - they're the heroes. The surveillance revelations bring them back to Big Brother kind of narratives, and they don't like that at all.” YearsKindHas BeensMadeBigsLastsPoliticalCommunityHurtDarkDecisionBrotherHeroTenNarrativeThirtyAgencyRevelationsTreatmentZeroEmbarrassedSpySurveillanceMystiqueIntelligence CommunityPolitical DecisionsZero Dark Thirty Author:Edward Snowden
“My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player. One of my earliest memories is him kind of forcing a guitar on all my brothers and me. You know, "You have to practice three hours a day!" I hated guitar at the time. I kind of picked up trumpet to spite him.” KnowsKindWantedThreeHoursMemoriesPracticePlayerBrotherDadRaisedGuitarMy DadHatedObsessedMy BrotherSpiteTrumpetsGuitar Player Author:Zach Condon
“I lost my brother when I was 22. He was only 24. I was always the kind of person to live on the edge, but after that, it made me feel like I could really die. It can really happen. Before then, I never thought it could happen to me or my family.” FeelsKindPersonsMadeHappensDiesLostBrotherMy FamilyEdgesMy Brother Author:Queen Latifah
“There's all kinds of conservative donors. The Koch brothers are big donors. There's all kinds of them. But none of them have actively organized hate groups that run around and protest and try to upset people and get in as close as they can to their lives and the way they live them and make a nuisance of themselves. That's not how the right has always sought to win elections.” PeopleWayTryingKindBigsRunningHateWinningGroupsBrotherElectionConservativeAll KindsUpsetOrganizedProtestNuisanceDonorsHate Groups Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think that the kinds of stereotypes that people have about Haitians or about HIV sufferers exist because we don't realize that these are our brothers, our sisters, our aunts and uncles, our neighbors. They are us. And I don't mean that in some metaphorical sense. They are literally us.” PeopleThinkingKindMeanRealizingBrotherNeighborUnclesStereotypeAuntHivMetaphoricalSufferersAunts And Uncles Author:Kwame Dawes
“I was a tomboy running around in the garden. I used to play on a local cricket team. I grew up with all boy cousins, for the most part, and my brother. My mother was in the kind of late-sixties, early-seventies origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, "You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do."” KindRunningMotherBoysTeamBrotherLike YouFemaleGardenWho You AreMy BrotherCousinEmancipation Author:Felicity Jones
“It's nice to have some perspective, when you are just touring, touring, touring, it becomes kind of a crazy experience. But, when I have time off and live my life at home, and then I get back to the airport and I am back with my whole family again. My brother, my band, my tour manager and sound guy get to re-unite, it's kind of an uplifting feeling to be rolling with such a crew and so much gear from country to country. It feels good.” KindCountryFeelingsHomeGuyNiceCrazyBrotherPerspectiveFeel GoodUpliftingMy BrotherLiving My Life Author:Justin Nozuka
“I really wanted to do a comedy. I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one. I tried with two little parts in comedies that were more mainstream, I was kind of fumbling around, and then I read The Brothers Bloom and knew it was the one I wanted to jump into. Did it take adjusting? Actually, it's not really any different from doing drama.” KindDifferentDoneComedyBrotherDramaObsessive Author:Rachel Weisz
“I always grew up around acting. I did commercials as a kid and all that kind of stuff and my oldest brother did theatre in High School. It's funny, when I was 15 I had a friend of mine who dragged me away to a camp at Boston University. It was the first time truthfully that acting didn't feel presentational; it felt very personal. I didn't just feel like I was singing and dancing for my friends in High School. It felt like I was doing a scene and all of a sudden I started to feeling something - I started to feel emotional.” KindFeelingsKidsSchoolActingEmotionalBrotherSceneSingingHigh SchoolFirst TimeDancingTheatre Author:Patrick Wilson
“I'd always said never say never, because I knew that Warner Brothers wanted to do something with "Fantastic Beasts," and I did have kind of a yen to do that.” KindBrotherFantasticBeastNever Say Never Author:J. K. Rowling
“My brothers are so much a part of who I am, and such a large part of my heart and my drive. I've never had a kid, but I understand that whole, "I would kill for my family" kind of thing. I understood it, it resonated with me. It's a very primal, animal thing that you feel for your family.” HeartKindKidsAnimalBrotherMy HeartMy FamilyOur FamilyMy Brother Author:Tatiana Maslany
“It's the same when you listen to any kind of successful athlete. My older brother has a useful name for them - he calls them lottery ticket careers. I are engaged in what he calls these lottery ticket careers. On the one hand it's very, very unlikely that you're ever going to hit it. On the other hand if you do hit it, you really hit it. You have to be engaged with it, though, maybe you're entire life. And if you never actually do hit it? You kind of jovially lie yourself along the way and recognize that it may produce things outside the hitting it kinds of goods, I suppose.” KindLyingSuccessfulBrotherAthleteLotteryOlder BrotherLottery Ticket Author:Clancy Martin
“In my opinion, having worked in the games industry and still keeping in touch with a lot of those guys, there was definitely a time when they saw themselves as the little brother of the film industry. But they kind of went off in a different direction and now see themselves, I think, as being far more interesting and ahead of the film industry. They haven't just caught up. They've gone off in a different direction and exceeded the film industry.” ThinkingKindDifferentFilmGuyInterestingOpinionBrotherCaught UpLittle Brother Author:Duncan Jones
“If you're lucky on a team, even if you're not sisters or brothers, you become such a family that you get that kind of open and honest relationship. Where the chemistry is great and even if tempers flare, you forgive each other. I was always looking for a sisterhood. You're not always lucky enough to get that magical chemistry, but you can't win without it.” KindEnoughWinningTeamHonestBrotherLuckyForgivingChemistryTemperSisterhood Author:Colleen Jones
“I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.” PeopleKindDifferentSchoolMotherCultureRichChildhoodBrotherGood PeopleDifferent KindsBrothers And SistersSpending Time Author:Damian Marley
“One of the great things about being a grandparent is you get to redo what you didn't or couldn't do as a parent. Oftentimes we forget that even while the parent is parenting, they're still a growing person. They're still trying to fix themselves. They're still out there not doing everything a hundred percent correctly. I had the best parents I could ever have, but the kinds of things that they were capable of doing, the things that they said and did, were very destructive to my sister, brother, and me. But they're so much more than those things.” TryingKindParentForgetBrotherCapableGreat ThingsMy SisterGrandparent Author:Rita Williams-Garcia
“I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there.” KindPlayerBrotherRadioAll KindsJohnsonSiriusBluegrassAbigail Author:Steve Martin
“My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something.” ThinkingKindFatherLinesBrotherPoliceExpectedMy BrotherOfficersRetiredPolice OfficerFireman Author:Ryan Reynolds