Love Affair Quotes - Page 7

• A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.

  Erica Jong

  Night, Stories, Literature

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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• For me, the reading of the scriptures is not the pursuit of scholarship. Rather, it is a love affair with the word of the Lord and that of His prophets.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Reading, Scripture, Affair

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• When you look back... on your love affairs... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to bed with is yourself.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Bed, Looks, Affair

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• If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be "Oh, shut up." The Americans talked too much, mainly about themselves. Their torrid love affair with their own history and legend exceeded-painfully-the quasi-British Canadian idea of modesty and self-restraint. ... They were forever busting their buttons in spasms of insufferable yahoo pride or all too publicly agonizing over their crises.

  Bruce McCall

  Attitude, Pride, Ideas

  Bruce McCall (1999). “Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada”, Vintage

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• I've always had a love affair with New York City, and I've threatened to get an apartment there one day. But it just made sense for me to set 'Burlesque' on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. It's a place I know intimately well and love, and I think there's a great story to be told with L.A.

  Steve Antin

  New York, Sunset, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The tension between the governed and the governing is what makes the world go 'round. It's not love, it's that tension, because that tension exists in love affairs. The whole idea of control is at the heart of human relationships. Control and resistance to control.

  William Safire

  Heart, Ideas, World

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• In my younger days I struggled constantly with an overwhelming but pure love affair - my only one, and I would have struggled with it longer had not premature death, bitter but salutary for me, extinguished the cooling flames. I certainly wish I could say that I have always been entirely free from desires of the flesh, but I would be lying if I did.

  Petrarch

  Lying, Flames, Desire

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• The relationship between book and reader is intimate, at best a kind of love affair, and first loves are famously tenacious. [...] First love is a momentous step in our emotional education, and in many ways, it shapes us forever.

  Laura Miller

  Book, First Love, Love Is

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• Pot is an insidious drug because it can steal your life away from you, without you even being aware of it. I had a love affair with pot for ten years. Pot was my most devoted partner.

  Margaret Cho

  Years, Drug, Affair

  Margaret Cho (2007). “I'm the One That I Want”, p.64, Ballantine Books

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• I was obsessed with Tupac - like eat, sleep, breathe Tupac. During this obsessive love affair, I dressed the part.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Sleep, Affair, Breathe

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• I would say that I probably had an unhealthy love affair with drinking. I grew up as this kind of insecure kid, you know, kind of making my way. And drinking took all of that away.

  Michael Botticelli

  Drinking, Kids, Insecure

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The Arab leaders, they don't have a love affair with the Palestinians or the Palestinian leadership, but the publics have, and they cannot feel safe in their own chairs if they accept Israel, the mistress, so to speak, to acknowledge her as a main, the Unter den Linden, the main road, as long as we are not moving forward with the Palestinians.

  Ehud Barak

  Moving, Long, Leader

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I have a huge relationship with Brazil; it's almost a love affair, I would say. And to me, to introduce that specific martial art like capoeira in Hollywood movies was something important to me.

  Vincent Cassel

  Art, Important, Affair

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I was lucky enough to date my first love for five years. We had a very romantic, very dramatic teenage love affair. And it has impacted me because I have married a man who is simply the grownup version of my first love. So, I believe my first love was just preparing me for the man I'm married to today. And it has also impacted the way I write, because there will always be a love story in every movie I write. Always! I think having a positive first love experience before the heartbreak made me a more confident in who I am, a more confident female today.

  Amma Asante

  Teenage, Believe, Writing

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I'm not sure that all books aren't that way. I think that might apply to any book I was writing. The book was kind of the product of this enormous infatuation I had, not only with the office and office politics, but with perspective, and trying to tell a story from as wide a range of perspectives as you possibly can. I tried to capture it all with the first-person plural, but once I settled on that, I used it to tell the story from as many angles as I could. I guess, to put it romantically, it was about a love affair with the craft of perspective.

  Joshua Ferris

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I began filmmaking in high school, at the Chicago Academy for the Arts. My first documentary was about a dysfunctional obese middle-aged carpet cleaner named Bill, who lived with his Mom, and his love affair with Anna, a drug-addicted prostitute. I made that when I was 16.

  Yony Leyser

  Mom, Art, School

  "William S. Burroughs: A Man Within". Interview with Paul Hawkins, www.outsideleft.com. March 2010.

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• Acting is a lifelong love affair, and I am passionate and respect my craft to the utmost degree, which gives me the strength to move on from adversity in my work.

  Sebastian Roche

  Moving, Adversity, Giving

  Interview with Robert Piper, nicheandnook.com. August 24, 2015.

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• I applied for three jobs in record companies and was offered all of them. I took the most glamorous-sounding job in the promotions department and it began my love affair with the music industry.

  Nicki Chapman

  Jobs, Three, Records

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I've never lost my cool. Even in love affairs. If you have Plan B and Plan C, you are all the time relaxed.

  Mikhail Prokhorov

  Affair, Plan B, Lost

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• People make films about all kinds of relationships, but they won't do these extremely intense platonic love affairs that happen between young girls. In a way they are more intense than anything else you ever have, and that's what I wanted to make a film about, though it was in the context of a horror film.

  Mary Harron

  Girl, People, Way

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The ideal love affair should be conducted by post.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Affair, Should, Ideals

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• There can be - there ought to be - no medium course; a love-affair is either sober earnest or contemptible folly, if not wickedness: to gossip about it is, in the first instance, intrusive, unkind, or dangerous; in the second, simply silly.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Silly, Gossip, Wickedness

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 8), 1858.

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• Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time.

  Mason Cooley

  Time, Making Love, Ruins

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• But who is ever able to apply to her own current love affair a word like "similar"?

  Joan Wickersham

  Able, Affair, Currents

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• Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was Romeo & Juliet? How long were they together? A few days.

  Jesse Harris

  Famous Love, Long, Together

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