“Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.”
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“More than 1.1 million taxpayers in Pennsylvania will enjoy a lower tax rate, more than 1.4 million married couples will benefit from the reduction in the marriage penalty, and more than 1.1 million parents will have the advantage of an increased child tax credit.”
“I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.”
“I love being in a relationship, but marriage isn't for me.”
“My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.”
“My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.”
“My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics.”
“It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.”
“Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.”
“There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.”
“The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.”
“The president strongly believes that marriage in this country ought to be between a man and a woman. He also believes it is something that ought to be decided by the people. He doesn't believe that judges ought to impose their will on the people.”
“All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.”
“It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.”
“For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.”
“I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.”
“Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.”
“A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.”
“A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group, you've got to do it - but of course it does cause problems.”
“I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me it's something I'm doing.”
“Marriage is important to me and I love the idea of being married.”
“Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.”
“Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.”
“My marriage was breaking up, and my marriage with Chong was breaking up. I had to come back and kind of start on my own again.”