‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’ by Betty Smith is one of my favorites. Even though it doesn’t have any monsters or crazy fantasy in it, it’s such a raw story, and I can really relate to the characters. I think it’s a beautiful story.
You play the honesty of the characters and show a side of them that people can relate to and want to get to know.
For ‘The Bestseller’… there was hardly any research, but I had to give each person a quirk and develop their stories so that it would relate to who they are.
‘Frozen’ definitely isn’t about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.
A lot of people relate me to the blues but I don’t think it’s a hindrance at this point. I’ve been doing it long enough that I can do different things and be accepted.
We believe that the best solutions come from solving your own problem. If you have a real problem, there’s likely someone else who can relate. That’s how Airbnb was born.
Comedy doesn’t really matter that much; I know that. I treat it like an adult – I don’t treat it like a child or a god, which some people do. This might just be in America, but ‘stand-up comedy’ is something very particular that I don’t particularly relate to.
I don’t belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism – although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism. More in the work of older feminists, really, like Germaine Greer.
Readers prefer a world they can relate to.
I have a pretty diverse audience, and that makes me happy – laughter is universal, and I don’t differentiate between people at all. Why should I? People are people. There’s no reason why one person can’t relate to any other person on this planet in some way or another.
The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that’s real; most of that whiny stuff isn’t real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.
I think it’s time to do clean-up for a generation. I believe this is one of the movies that hits home for all colors and all races. Everybody I talk to, black or white, suburban, rich or poor, can relate to rejection, can relate to not having a father or a mother.
We all relate to having highs and lows. Everyone gets depressed.
I’m not going to relate to an athlete as a peer.
I only record songs that touch me in some way, ones that I can relate to.
The framing of how we relate to each other within and across social media platforms will continue to become more sophisticated and nuanced in their expression of how we structure our relationships in our real world lives.
If someone is being bullied or feels like an outsider, and they relate to something that I’ve done, even if it’s just igniting a spark, that’s great. I had that feeling as a kid. I was messed with no end.
I think you’ve got to be able to relate to what teens are going through.
I’m a storyteller – that’s my chamber, that’s my box. I’m always tryin’ to give you the best story from our side of the table that you could really relate to quick. I understand where I wanna be at, but sometimes the production takes me where I need to go.
The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people.
You want people – I want people to relate to me as a character. I want them to go, ‘That could have been me,’ or, ‘I know someone like that.’
I relate my life a lot to ‘Cool Runnings,’ the movie.
‘RPM’ is basically about my pace in life, and I think a lot of people can relate to that. Our video is going to involve a really nice car with some fast driving. It’s going to be really cool. I’m excited for people to see it!
The No. 1 job is to help a player reach their highest potential, and that’s not possible without being able to relate with them. That’s been helpful, and as far as my knowledge base is concerned, that stems from being around great coaches willing to share.
We can all relate at some level to being fascinated by looking at ourselves. You see it every time little kids walk into a store with surveillance and start dancing and waving at themselves.
Fundamentalists are crazy. They’re the real world equivalent to the evil geniuses of our spy fiction and our superhero comics. They want to mold the world into a specific shape that they really believe in, and if you don’t believe in that, if you can’t relate to that, it just seems crazy.
I’m really into the love thing. When I relate to my guys in the band, I tell them where it’s at, and if I feel like telling somebody that I love them, I do.
Especially women, we can relate to wanting to have a seat at the table and a lot of the time it’s not even to be more powerful than the men, it’s not even to be powerful, it’s just to feel that we’re not going to be undermined, that our ideas are not going to be taken for granted, that we won’t be sexually harassed.
People relate to songs so differently. No matter what it’s about in reality, people create their own meaning behind it and connect with it on their own terms.
I really do pride myself on being able to help other people tell their stories and bring out the best in them. But I still, every song I’m writing, I still need to relate to it. I still need to find my true self in it, or else it’ll feel dishonest. I mean, everything has a queer meaning as far as I’m concerned.
I always set out to tell a good story, to create a character that young people can relate to, place them in a situation that will be interesting, intriguing, eventually suspenseful. But what I find is that after I do that, then there are themes that emerge, which teachers can then use to provoke discussion and debate.
The journey of Marco Polo is the hero’s journey, one that all cultures across the globe can relate to.
I think kids relate to me because I have some ability to remain a little bit naive. Even during interviews. Mostly during interviews.
I’m not trying to be something that I’m not, and I think a lot of people can relate to that. They want something that’s real, and I think I give that to them.
I’m always interested in linking dance to mundane behavior that everyone can relate to.
I think representation is the most important thing in the world. People who are young look up to the things that they see in the media. They want to relate and to be able to say, ‘Wow, I can be successful.’
As a kid, I loved the whimsical Superman and Batman stuff, and as a teenager, Marvel was more angsty, and that appealed to me. Marvel dealt with more stuff I could relate to as a teenager.
I try to make myself look as normal as possible because I like people to relate to me.
I’ve passed up opportunities. I’ve avoided the spotlight. I’ve never been to Academy Awards, didn’t relate to them.
Seeing your music, how it actually affects people, it just encourages me to stay true to myself and write stories that I relate to and that are real to me, an experience that I’ve had.
I think I’ve inspired a lot of people, and I’m one, if I get a letter and someone’s in serious shape, I’ll call them. I relate to these people.
What I find is that when young people find a brand they relate to, that they feel speaks to them, they want it in every format they can get.
Thankfully, I already have a mogul I can pattern myself after: Oprah. We’re a lot alike. I’m black, I love to relate things people talk about to myself, and people think my best friend and I are lesbians! My strength is that I’m more relatable.
You know, many of you kids can’t relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We’re looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn’t happen.
Kids can relate to having some scary person living near their house. They can relate to, ‘Hey, don’t go near that house.’ We all can.
You’ll never see the president carry his own luggage, and why? Because even though we know he has luggage, it would reduce his stature if he was too much like us. We need to think of our leaders as being above us, even though they must still relate to us.
I always find stuff in my characters to relate to.
I see songs in colors; I see days of the week. Each day of the week I relate to a gender, and it’s very weird. I can taste words sometimes. It’s very strange.
I want girls to be able to relate to me, and I think that’s why a lot of commercial clients like me: because I’m just like everyone else.
I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother’s poor mental health.
Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world – and there clearly are – then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
It’s so cool though when I see thirty-year-old men that are coming in to watch my shows. It’s like, ‘You really like my music? Like a teenage girl, you relate to it?’ It just proves how much people are alike.
I think I just say what I’m thinking. And – you know, if people relate to it, they relate to it, but – I really – you know, if you really listen to me, I don’t have my finger on any pulse.
You don’t have to be a Brad Pitt look-alike hero just to be courageous and help out your friends and come through when it really matters. I think everyone can sort of relate to that in some way, particularly back to people’s school days.
