"The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy - rather like a long-term marriage."
9
"My mum told me, 'At that moment when you know you can't do both, the marriage and the kids, choose the marriage because you're going to be spending your whole lives together, so you have to put a lot of work and attention into the relationship."
9
"Marriage has historically, as long as there's been human history, meant a man and a woman in a relationship for life. Once we change that definition, then where does it go from there?"
7
"If I go into a relationship with an artist, which at most is going to last five years, we have a 100-page contract covering every eventuality. Whereas with marriage you go into it with no contract, with laws that date back hundreds of years, and I don't think that's right."
5
"Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it."
4
"When someone comes up to me and says, 'Mary, you helped save my marriage', or, 'Mary, you helped me get out of this abusive relationship', I'm in it, really in their lives. And I'm so passionate about my feelings, but also about showing people the way through theirs."
6
"When you genuinely feel like that was the right relationship, you're supposed to give it all you can. That's what marriage is about."
10
"I don't think it's more difficult for actors to have a good marriage than anyone. I think, in the end, a really important component of any relationship is honesty, and it also comes down to luck."
7
"When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship."
6
"Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men."
7
"Culture, what you believe, what you value, how you live matters. Now, as fundamental as these principles are, they may become topics of democratic debates from time to time, so it is today with the enduring institution of marriage. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman."
5
"My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That's the position I've had for some time, and I don't intend to make any adjustments at this point... Or ever, by the way."
8
"After my second marriage failed... I said, 'You know, could I have a relationship with a man? A loving relationship with a man that would involve intimacy' For a while, before I did get into a relationship, I saw, for a few years, either women or men. And I found that I could be attracted to both."
8
"A band is like a marriage, and if you're in a marriage with someone, and you lose yourself in that marriage, the relationship is over, really."
3
"Singles have a purpose that is higher than any earthly relationship. Marriage is honorable, but so is being single."
5
"I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public."
6
"I won't have a traditional marriage; I don't find the value in that anymore. But I am such a hopeless romantic and I really want love and I want a committed relationship, so I am going to reinvent marriage for myself."
5
"My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds."
6
"I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in."
7
"Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It's harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next."
4
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