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		I consider myself very fortunate. I have a beautiful wife who supports my work and is raising our daughter when I'm out on the road.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kurt Elling
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Oscar Wilde
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Patrick Duffy
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV show 'Portlandia.' My wife and I try to have some ironic distance from the culture of organic, chemical-free parenting, but we're often participants.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Adam Davidson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		At one point, I kind of looked in the mirror and said, 'You know, you're a mom. You're a wife. People count on you; you can't go off the deep end into this kind of crazy musical swirl.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mary Steenburgen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		What man could afford to pay for all the things a wife does, when she's a cook, a mistress, a chauffeur, a nurse, a baby-sitter? But because of this, I feel women ought to have equal rights, equal Social Security, equal opportunities for education, an equal chance to establish credit.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Betty Ford
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Once you’ve married, be strict but just with your wife, don’t allow her to forget herself, and when a misunderstanding arises, say: 'Don’t forget that I made you happy.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Anton Chekhov
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My wife is Asian. She's Filipino. Alright, well, okay, so that explains it. Now you know why you see me at all those Filipino events. I'm not there picking up pussy, I'm dropping some off.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dave Chappelle
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff. It's funny now to think about it - that a friend getting a job or something had anything to do with me... I think that my relationship with my wife has played a pivotal role in the chilling out of Aaron.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Aaron Staton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think there's definitely a way to tell a story, to also look at marriages that are working, but find drama from what's challenging them. That's what I think, certainly, 'Parenthood' is kind of about: the unexpected things that come up in your life that challenge you as a man, as a woman, as a husband and a wife, and as a parent.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jason Katims
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I say Gibson, we're old friends, and you're a fool if you take anything I say as an offense. Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Elizabeth Gaskell
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The idea that some day another wife would be added to our household was ever present in my mind, but, somehow, when the fact was placed before me in so many unmistakable words, my heart sank within me, and I shrank from the realization that our home was at last to be desecrated by the foul presence of Polygamy.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				T. B. H. Stenhouse
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		My wife and I have mellowed out as we've gone along. With the first baby, when she cried, we'd think, Oh my God, what do we do now? But with Finley, our fourth - he's the easiest baby ever, and I think that has a lot to do with the fact that we're much more relaxed these days.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chris O'Donnell
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My wife says that I become different once I start to work with animals. My movements become different, my mood is different. It involves letting everything fall behind you, becoming intuitive in your dealings with wild creatures in a way that bypasses reason. Sometimes it's more like a dance than anything else.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Frans Lanting
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jon Bon Jovi
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I've just had a little boy, and my wife and I called him Elliott because 'E.T.' sort of saved my life because that film is absolutely about something being out there that's greater than yourself.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jack Thorne
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In the spring of 1988, my wife, Joan Didion, and I were approached about writing a screenplay based on a book by Alanna Nash called 'Golden Girl,' a biography of the late network correspondent and anchorwoman Jessica Savitch.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Gregory Dunne
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I do have hobbies - I garden and bike, for example - but there's nothing in the world that gives me even a fraction of the pleasure that I derive from hanging around with my wife and daughter.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chris Bohjalian
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		My daughter is full energy, like my wife and I, and strong-minded and has an opinion, like we do. And my boys, one's a bit more calm and chill, and the other is much more sensitive to things. You see this right away, when they're first born. One cried, one didn't, with the boys.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chris Hemsworth
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In a perfect world, my tennis game gets better. I have kids and a beautiful wife and live on some hill somewhere that's not in Los Angeles. And the script that Tom Hanks just barely turned down gets in my hands.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Matthew Perry
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Watching NASCAR with my wife is like taking a test. Every single turn, she has a question. Now, here's the problem. Sometimes her questions actually make sense. I don't have an answer for them. So, I have to that guy thing and go Pfft! You ever hear your man do that, ladies? That means he doesn't know the answer, but he's thinking.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bill Engvall
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The day I will never forget is the day I married my wife, Tashera. Tashera is so special to my boys and me. Her energy is enough to put anyone on a cloud. Her dedication and care gives me comfort and ease.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				DMX