Alexandra Fuller Quotes
I think there's a big difference between loving someone out of duty and dependency and loving someone because you really are able to sort of grow and be whole in the context of that relationship.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.
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In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.
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You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently - and I think that is what is going to make the difference.
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The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a deliberate relationship to public opinion.
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The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.
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I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.
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I'm such a relationship guy. I really am.
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Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.
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Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
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In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.
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It's more necessary than ever before to ensure that discernment and the development of a critical mind guide our take on the world and inform our relationship to the media and information.
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My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little bit and have a normal relationship with my family.
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Having people I love around me - friends and family - is great, but I don't necessarily need a relationship.
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When do we put on the lingerie? Always at the beginning of the relationship - first couple of months, strutting around the bedroom wearing a teddy. Yeah, six months later, you've stopped shaving your legs and you look like a teddy.
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A passion to obey Christ is born out of our relationship with him. The more we love him, the more we want him to be a part of our affairs.
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I have tremendous respect for teens who navigate the quagmire that is modern religion. If there is any message in my books, I want it to be that it's okay to ask questions, and it's okay to come up with a belief system all your own. Teens who change their worldviews in the face of tremendous social pressure are heroes to me.
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There’s always a secret door. That’s why you always need a thief in your party.
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I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.
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I think there's a big difference between loving someone out of duty and dependency and loving someone because you really are able to sort of grow and be whole in the context of that relationship.
