“I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.”
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“Most bands don't even last fourteen months let alone fourteen years.”
“I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.”
“It's always easier if you have the support of your family, if you're not alone. I came from a country that has been through a lot of troubles in the last 20 to 30 years, but we have been through them together.”
“It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.”
“Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is; They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.”
“I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.”
“I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.”
“I have my best ideas when I am alone.”
“I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.”
“When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green.”
“You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!”
“The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.”
“Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone it has to be itself.”
“Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.”
“I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.”
“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.”
“I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.”
“I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal.”
“Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won't date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs.”
“However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.”
“The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China.”
“You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.”
“I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.”