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"It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility."
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"For in marriage a little licence, a little independence there mustbe between people living together day in day out in the same house; which Richard gave her, and shehim."

"I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them."

"Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."

"I also remembered Buddy Willard saying in a sinister, knowing way that after Ihad children I would feel differently, I wouldn't want to write poems any more. So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about numb as a slave in some private, totalitarian state."

"When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his."

"Before marriage a man prays that she accepts, after marriage a woman prays that he accepts."

"After a long time in laboratories, psychologists have discovered the holy grail of a happy marriage: I applied it and it didn't work."
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"One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you."

"You're raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it's special. I think people react to celebrities like that - I mean, they treat celebrities like children."

"On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts."

"I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted."

"People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. They want you to tell about what you saw."

"Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within."

"Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up."

"If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens."

"One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too."
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