Kevin Kwan Quotes

Families are the deepest, most screwed up relationships that we have.

Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.

I have always liked family-type dramas; I just think the dynamics in families make for some really interesting characters.

To me, families are puzzles that take a lifetime to work out - or not, as often is the case - and I like to explore how people within them try to connect, be it through love, duty, or circumstance.

I'm attracted to stories that deal with the family and what it's like to be a member of that family, whether it's together or apart, given the pressures that are put on it by the outside world.

There's a lot of truth in family relationships.

Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America, to be close to your family.

Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.

I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!

There are secrets in families. That is the definition of a family.

'Queen Sugar' is a drama about family. It's something that allows us to be ourselves and see the ways that we interact with our own families.

Everyone has bits of dysfunction in their families, but I actually have a very nice, happy one.

I enjoy watching the genre of family dramas. I love family films like 'Nuvvu Naku Nacchav,' 'Malleeswari,' and 'Bommarillu.'

Families are complex organisms.

Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can't separate them.

If parents are the fixed stars in the child's universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.

I think we are defined as human beings through our families, no matter what kind of family - through our relationships with parents, brothers and sisters.

Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are the very nature of a family.

I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries.

For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families.

All my friends' mothers were appalling women.

I mean, families are weird.

Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?

Everyone has hiccups in their families.