Esther Perel Quotes
For most couples who come to me - especially in the aftermath of the revelation of an affair, when they are in a state of crisis and fear the loss of a predictable future - they start to have conversations for the first time about love, sex, monogamy, and marriage. Most couples don't negotiate or don't even converse about any of these things until the crisis of the affair has actually forced them to. Why does it take infidelity to get us talking about the stuff that should be there from the start?
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I studied Morse code.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.
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Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.
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Wherever I find love I will accept it.
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I'd be resentful if shareholders who don't know the business tried to tell me what to do.
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I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana.
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The compassionate are not rich; therefore, the rich are not compassionate.
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Bulgarians eat tarator every single day in summer. They think of it as salad although we'd call it a soup. You can make it as thick or thin as you like depending on how much water you add. It's very practical in summer because yogurt cools the body faster than water, but the water hydrates you.
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In general, we are lazy as consumers and just want to label people as good guy, bad guy.
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To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person.
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I told my wife, when I go up to the garage and I wash my Cobra, I feel like I'm cheating on her.
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'Fury' whetted my appetite for a bigger canvas and this idea of world creation. You can do amazing things as a filmmaker if you have the proper tools, and those are time and money.
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When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the amount of dark energy fits our biological make-up. If the amount of dark energy were substantially different from what we've measured, the environmental conditions would be inhospitable to our form of life.
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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
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In order to make Alma innocent and open, I had to forget that I'm stressed as an actress because I'm making a film with Paul Thomas Anderson. I had to let go of everything and hold onto the text. The language was like a rope I could cling onto and make my way blindfolded through the shooting.
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If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles live, we are taking a chance. If we visit the desert or climb a mountain or enter a swamp where snakes have managed to survive, we are taking a chance.
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Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals.
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I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
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I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.
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In real life, my son had a little injury a couple of years ago where we had moved into a new house and he put his hand through a glass window and it cut him really badly. Thank god he had surgery and repaired everything, but I remember I felt frozen I was so scared, and then I realized I was holding my hand just because his hand was hurt.
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For most couples who come to me - especially in the aftermath of the revelation of an affair, when they are in a state of crisis and fear the loss of a predictable future - they start to have conversations for the first time about love, sex, monogamy, and marriage. Most couples don't negotiate or don't even converse about any of these things until the crisis of the affair has actually forced them to. Why does it take infidelity to get us talking about the stuff that should be there from the start?
