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First of all, with due respect to my dad, he wasn't an ace composer. He never got the success that my uncle did.
Whenever I passed by a Chinese restaurant in a car, I'd joke to my friends, 'Oh yeah, my uncle owns that place.'
I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines.
My newly acquired title of being an uncle boy was this a special one life-changing it even made my Instagram bio.
I really want to do a film with my uncle and my cousins. I'm sure it will be really interesting to work with them.
My earliest memories are of traveling from Jacksonville, Florida, to visit my uncle and his family in Tallahassee.
When I had started commuting into London for theatre school, I'd had to sell my uncle's stamp collection for £300.
Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.
No woman in Afghanistan is in business without support from either her husband or her father or her uncle, someone.
Every time I met any of my heroes I was disappointed - the exception was Joe Strummer, who was like an uncle to me.
My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.
Having competed themselves, my father and my uncle are very passionate about motorsport, so I inherited it from them.
I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.
I'll say my dad couldn't act to save his life and nor can my uncle, and they'll say I'm the worst actor in the world.
Young people, for whom I should have been a role model and an uncle, duplicated my worst habits and died as a result.
My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies.
We know Uncle George directly, so he gives us music to sample, all we gotta do is tell him directly and we can use it.
I don't think I'm going to be back on 'This Is Us.' I think that Uncle Ricky had his moment; he did what he had to do.
When it comes to my Uncle Jack, my father, or any other loved ones we've lost, I believe in honoring lives, not deaths.
Yes, my uncle wanted me to be a cinematographer and he was disappointed when I gave up that dream to become an actress.
I grew up on Charles Addams' cartoons, particularly 'The Addams Family,' and Uncle Fester was always one of my favorites.
My great uncle was in 'Dad's Army.' And I don't know if Americans will know that. It was a hugely popular show in England.
It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.
My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn't very good, but my pronunciation isn't terrible.
I never met my Uncle Jack. My mom was six months pregnant with me when he died. But I knew his wife and two kids very well.
Black people don't talk about diabetes that much. I never knew anything. I thought everyone had an uncle with a leg cut off!
We're always aware of our family being creative, but it wasn't like, 'My uncle is an amazing actor; I want to be like that.'
In fact, my uncle did his first full play at the Westin Playhouse because my dad put in a good word for him to the producer.
My uncle's a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, 'That's cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.'
Yes, the Masters is too stylish to be an American icon. It's as out of character for Uncle Sam as a McDonald's is for France.
Whether you're a mother or father, or a husband or a son, or a niece or a nephew or uncle, breast cancer doesn't discriminate.
Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.
I didn't want to be a goalkeeper in the beginning because my dad and uncle used to play in goal and I knew how much you suffer!
My uncle's house burned down when I was 6 years old. We got out safely. But ever since, I've had a nightmare of dying in a fire.
I'm not into being all 'film-y' and going to the premieres and parties. I tend to feel like the embarrassing uncle at a wedding.
When I was 20 years old, my uncle was an arthouse distributor, and he would take me to Cannes every year to work as a film scout.
As part of the ritual of becoming a man, my maternal uncle, a judge, and his four sons, each older than me, took me deer hunting.
When I was in senior year of high school, my mom lost her job, we lost our house, and we had to move in with my uncle and my aunt.
King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur.
People always tell me that they grew up with me - like I'm their brother or uncle or some other family member. That keeps me going.
The children in my building don't know my real name! They are so fascinated with my 'Wasooli' look that they call me Wasooli Uncle.
The problem is my kids are liberal, maybe too liberal, and I have no one to blame but myself because I introduced them to Uncle O.J.
My strokes come from a lot of different people. I personally take credit for my forehand. My uncle helped me a lot with my backhand.
My uncle is from Trinidad, so, ever since I was 7, I grew up listening to Soca, the genre that's from there. It's my favorite sound.
I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.
When I was growing up, I remember my uncle Bret 'Hitman' Hart having his own column in the Calgary Sun. To me, this was beyond cool.
TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies, but with my dial I'm more like Ken's dirty old uncle.
I had an uncle who took me to the ring in Medellin when I was 15 years old. In school, we had someone who taught us how to bullfight.
If necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the uncle of change. Without it, progress slows and then stops and then reverses.
I grew up with very strong family support. My grandparents raised me, and my uncle sort of played that father-figure role in my life.