918 private quotes tagged relationship

“I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about.” — Tony Kushner

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“I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.” — Wislawa Szymborska

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“A lot of Hollywood couples get married young and wind up growing out of their relationship.” — Patti Stanger

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“Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the world - it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water.” — Thomas Friedman

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“As long as women are in the work force making their own money and decisions, men are going to have to realize that this way of life is here to stay - because it takes two incomes to make it and more now. The sooner you address your style of saving and spending with your mate the better off your relationship will be.” — Patti Stanger

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“In order to be able to give a girlfriend the amount of time she deserves, you would need time, and I just can't give her that. So, rather than being selfish or stupid enough to go into a relationship, it's just been easier to be single.” — Ryan Kwanten

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“I'm not one of these guys who's constantly in a relationship, not at all.” — Robert Pattinson

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“I think I make films to help bolster and feed the part of me that wants to remain in a positive relationship with the world and to engage in it. So hopefully in non-sentimental ways, I'm trying to make something that helps make me happy.” — Mike Mills

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“I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.” — Brad Pitt

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“If you're doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you're not going to have a relationship with them, they're not going to like you, they're not going to be your friend.” — Chuck Klosterman

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“Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.” — Arundhati Roy

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“In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn't doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.” — Jason Mraz

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“I just want my relationship to be more for myself rather than a public statement.” — Cynthia Nixon

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“I'm in a happy relationship, me and my ex are on really good terms, my kid and I are in a good spot.” — Robert Downey, Jr.

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“I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship it just obviously wasn't right for me.” — Portia de Rossi

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“If I'm in a relationship, that girl gets showered with letters from the road. I pour my heart into it.” — Jason Mraz

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“We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.” — Zbigniew Brzezinski

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“It's important not to ditch your mates when you're in a relationship. Lots of girls do it, but you need to remember they will always be there for you.” — Rachel Bilson

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“Relationships are so much a rerun of our parental relationships. We're rerunning the relationship they were in together and we're rerunning the relationship we had with them with our lover.” — Kenny Loggins

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“I have no problem with it. I don't look on homosexuality as an aberration. It's just they way they're born, and how could any relationship between two people in a committed relationship be wrong, regardless of gender?” — Andrea Thompson

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“If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.” — Richard Russo

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“It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.” — Jane Campion

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“You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end.” — Jane Campion

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“The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.” — Stanislav Grof

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“We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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