Couple Quotes - Page 26

• Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a paper or a computer for a couple of years, is a very solitary occupation. You can read sales figures - a hundred thousand books sold, half a million books sold - but they are just numbers.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Writing, Years

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• I've rarely met couples who - they both love to do everything together.

  Paul Mazursky

  Together, Mets

  "'Fresh Air' Remembers Screenwriter Paul Mazursky". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 7, 2014.

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• All I know about what people think of my gear is what a couple of my friends tell me, and one of them always wants to borrow money, so I'm not sure how reliable he is.

  Banksy

  Thinking, People, Gears

  Source: prefuse.net

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• I kind of decided that doing music is enough because I'm already running a couple small businesses. I'm a part of Bikini Kill Records, Le Tigre Records, and Digitally Ruined Records. In dealing with my health and everything, my ability to do that? I wouldn't be good at it.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Running, Records, Bikinis

  Source: allstonpudding.com

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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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• When both of you are beautiful, neither of you is beautiful. Together, as a couple, you're less than the sum of your parts.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Beautiful, You Are Beautiful, Together

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.39, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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• Once I could drive, I spent all my time in the city going to metal shows. I missed the first couple of Metallica shows because I was lame. By the time I got into them, they were playing places like the Kabuki.

  Brian Posehn

  Cities, Lame, Firsts

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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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• So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married.

  George J. Mitchell

  Mother, Father, Elderly

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• You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.

  Rahul Dravid

  Years, Careers, Rest Of Your Life

  "Rahul Dravid: a Gentleman Player". news.bbc.co.uk. March 07, 2008.

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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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• There were times when I had maybe a couple of hundred dollars, and times I made myself think I was on top of the world.

  Phoebe Snow

  Thinking, Dollars, World

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• I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of.

  Neil Strauss

  Eye, Years, Civilization

  Neil Strauss (2011). “Emergency: One man's story of a dangerous world, and how to stay alive in it”, p.7, Canongate Books

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• John Lennon brought his wife Cynthia, a nice blonde girl and she was horribly put out of sight and stayed home. I know it broke John's heart John wasn't happy about it and she was-- because we spoke on the plane. I photographed her and them on the plane coming over. And you know photographs don't lie. They tried putting on a black wig on her for a couple of days and that was the sad part that kept quiet because they wanted them to be like, you know, fresh- which they were

  Harry Benson

  Girl, Nice, Lying

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• The concept of emotional or spiritual survival has an honorable history, but it does invite self-indulgence. In my own case, the worst I ever survived was severe personal and political confusion, the temptation to various sorts of craziness and a couple of bad acid trips. It felt pretty horrendous at the time, and some of it was even dangerous, but Auschwitz it wasn't.

  Ellen Willis

  Spiritual, Emotional, Self

  Ellen Willis (2012). “Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-And-Roll”, p.78, U of Minnesota Press

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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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• I love going to London for a couple of days but I need to be in the country. I like the silence, the smell and the seasonal changes, especially in spring and summer. I really feel that I belong there.

  Philippa Gregory

  Summer, Country, Spring

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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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