#relatives

I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#boring things #charging #come #creating #fascinating

Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#anybody #day #discipline #home #hours

Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#authentic #convincing #dead #death #deathbed

I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science. ↗

— William Standish Knowles

#ever #i #into #relatives #science

I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people. ↗

— Viola Davis

#accents #accessible #adjust #african #african americans

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#ancestors #choose #create #ones #others

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with. ↗

— Oliver Hudson

#about #blood #choose #family #life

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends. ↗

— Jacques Delille

#chooses #fate #friends #our #relatives

I had no blood relatives till I made some. ↗

— Andy Dick

#blood #had #i #made #relatives

I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was dead and call the police. When she didn't, I would cry. I was always theatrical. I don't think any of my relatives are surprised. ↗

— Amy Lee

#any #call #cry #dead #drama