Couple Quotes - Page 33

• When you work as a day player on a film or a TV thing, like you're visiting a foreign country, where you know a couple of words of the language and a few of the cultural abnormalities, but basically you're a stranger in a strange land.

  Anthony Heald

  Country, Player, Land

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was surprised to learn that research showed arranged couples tended to be happier in the long run.

  Aziz Ansari

  Running, Long, Research

  "Aziz Ansari gets candid about love: "elusive and sadly ephemeral"". Interview with TashaR, www.avclub.com. February 13, 2013.

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• People will always want intimacy with one chosen person and you cannot have intimacy without privacy, which is why couples draw circles of privacy around themselves. They demand that family, neighbors and the law respect their union, and that is why we have marriage.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Law, Circles, People

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• Marriage is a strange combination of dream and reality, and we spend our lives as couples trying to negotiate that divide.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dream, Reality, Trying

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• I'm a hopeful romantic. In a couple of drinks, I'll be a lucky romantic. That's why they call me Mr. Lucky.

  Chris Isaak

  Hopeful, Lucky, Drink

  "Chris Isaak is a 'Lucky' new man". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. March 4, 2009.

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• I think the first time I realised Downton Abbey was a hit was when I was sitting in a tea shop in New York and the couple next to me were talking about Downton Abbey, and then they recognised me.

  Michelle Dockery

  New York, Thinking, Talking

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• Ill often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours.

  Thayer David

  Dark, Shadow, Hours

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• In 1987, I was in Edinburgh doing my first one-man show. I took part in a kickabout with some fellow comedians and tripped over my trousers and heard this cracking sound in my leg. A couple of days later I went into a coma and was diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism.

  Paul Merton

  Men, Comedian, Edinburgh

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• Over the weekend, former Enron executives Jeffrey Skilling and Rebecca Carter married each other during a huge ceremony in Houston. The happy couple is planning to honeymoon for three weeks in front of Congress.

  Conan O'Brien

  Weekend, Three, Houston

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• The virtue of the civil partnerships scheme lay in the attempt to treat the needs of gay and lesbian couples as what they are, not to bundle them into some other category.

  John Sentamu

  Gay, Needs, Partnership

  "Redefining marriage to include same-sex couples would benefit nobody" by John Sentamu, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2012.

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• My father has developed a tradition of surprising us at some point by appearing in fancy dress. He buys a new costume each year and typically gets carried away. A couple of Christmases ago he appeared in an inflatable sumo outfit. Its endearing, really, and only quite embarrassing.

  Pippa Middleton

  Father, Years, Dresses

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• This going into Europe will not turn out to be the thrilling mutual exchange supposed. It is more like nine middle-aged couples with failing marriages meeting in a darkened bedroom in a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

  E. P. Thompson

  Europe, Groups, Nine

  1975 On Britain's entry into the EEC, in the Sunday Times, 27 Apr.

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• To marry for love were no reproachful thing if we did not see that of ten thousand couples that do it, hardly one can be brought for an example that it may be done and not repented afterwards.

  Dorothy Osborne

  Marriage, Example, Done

  Dorothy Osborne (1903). “The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple”

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• When a couple gets to the last stage, one or both partners may have an affair. But an affair is usually a symptom of a dying marriage, not the cause. The end of that marriage could have been predicted long before either spouse strayed.

  John M. Gottman

  Long, Dying, May

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• John and I would go and have a couple of quiet beers, just to sit down and chew the fat. And he'd talk about Cynthia and how much he missed her

  Pete Best

  Beer, Down And, Cynthia

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• People change, couples change, and you have to be able to accept what is coming without trying to hang on things that you had before that they may disappear but they may transform into something that is even better.

  Antonio Banderas

  People, Trying, May

  "Actor Antonio Banderas". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 18, 2011.

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• Professionally, I did a couple of operas when I was in school, when I was 18.

  Lucy Griffiths

  School, Opera

  Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. March 1, 2017.

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• I will write a couple of books and become a millionaire.

  Steig Larsson

  Book, Writing, Millionaire

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• The years have gone by quickly. Death sits in the seat next to me. We make a lovely couple.

  Charles Bukowski

  Years, Lovely, Gone

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Come On In!: New Poems”, p.131, Canongate Books

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• For chat-room tyros who expect to make their first million day-trading by age 27, paging through the Sunday newspaper with a pair of scissors just to save a couple of cents on Cheetos seems so, well, old economy.

  Alex Berenson

  Sunday, Age, Rooms

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• In 1967, I signed up for the Army where I earned an equivalency diploma, then went on to join the Special Forces. That was really was the turning point in my life. I became more disciplined and focused. I went overseas and was in combat, got wounded a couple of times, lost a lot of good friends but matured a great deal.

  Richard Carmona

  Good Friend, Army, Special

  "From High School Dropout To Medical School Valedictorian" by Dr. Richard Carmona, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2009.

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• I'm personally supportive of marriage equality for gay couples and I believe that it will happen over time.

  Steve Schmidt

  Believe, Gay, Supportive

  "McCain’s Chief Strategist Comes Out In Support Of Gay Marriage" by Rachel Weiner, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2009.

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• My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were so lonely. People rarely visited them. I only stayed there a couple of months, but it made a strong impression on me.

  Kim Edwards

  Lonely, Strong, Jobs

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• A readers eyes may glaze over after they take in a couple of paragraphs about Canadian tariffs or political developments in Pakistan; a story about the reader himself or his neighbors will be read to the end.

  Donald E. Graham

  Eye, Political, Pakistan

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• Just because we didn't work out as a couple didn't mean we couldn't work together, right?

  Alice Clayton

  Mean, Work Out, Working Together

  Alice Clayton (2016). “The Cocktail Collection: Wallbanger, Rusty Nailed, and Screwdrivered”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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