Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair.
Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications.
The paper’s self-confessed love affair is with the advertiser and its flourishing bottomline gives it the power to desecrate editorial space and express the confident view that all other media houses will soon follow its example.
In ‘Forbidden Love,’ my character is a divorcee who has an affair with a young doctor. They are blissfully happy and have everything going for them. But their peers, friends, her daughter, and his family disapprove, and the affair ends.
When people get married because they think it’s a long-time love affair, they’ll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
Survival is not just a physical thing. It’s a constant mental affair. So, I kind of really draw a lot of power from that word.
Well, if you’re suspecting your lover is having an affair, it’s definitely devastating. It’s really a terrible, terrible feeling because you have no control.
You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.
My father’s diner, the Jefferson Coffee Shop, was a simple, 27-seat affair in Washington D.C., open for breakfast and lunch – coffee and eggs in the morning, cold cuts and burgers in the afternoon.
Having blown up my own long-term marriage via an extramarital affair, followed by a traumatic divorce, I tend to think of love as less a gently glowing hearth than a set of flaming train tracks you strap yourself onto.
I would try to write my own story about some East Coast suburbanite having an affair or something like that. So I did that for maybe two years or so, and it just wasn’t working for me at all.
We didn’t know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.
I’m just writin’ about my little ol’ love affair.
Presidents at the end of their second term – Reagan with the Iran-contra affair, Clinton with Monica Lewinsky – often find they are bedevilled by hostile Congressional investigations.
I am a Marine Corps veteran, but more importantly – or as important maybe – I’m the chairman of the Oversight Investigation Subcommittee and the House Veterans Affair Committee.
I have a bit of a love affair with fairy tales and some of the ideas of Irish mythology, like Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats, who captured a lot of that very beautifully.
Basically it’s the core story. About a guy having an affair with the mother of the girl he falls in love with.
Despite my love affair with skyscraper heels, luckily for my feet I rarely wear them – preferring, instead, the comfort and child-handling practicalities of a pair of trainers.
Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.
If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted by scandals about cheating. Sport is losing its shine and allure.
The deliciousness of a bowl of pasta isn’t proportional to the time it takes to make it: A three-hour ragu doesn’t necessarily taste 15 times better than a 10-minute butter-and-Parm weeknight affair.
As my friends will tell you, I am a superior agonizer. Believe me, you do not want me in the cockpit of an airliner. But in my defense, choosing an idea is also a high-stakes affair.
If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
I won’t write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn’t tell anyone.
I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It’s like an affair with no mess. You don’t actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like.
Marriage is a dialogue. But in any meaningful relationship, we should be honest, whether it is about having an affair or a fling.
Anyone who has been obsessed or been in a mad love affair, sometimes you don’t make the right decisions.
How one deals with the death of a loved one is a highly personalized affair. Some people weep for days; others take a hike in the woods or count rosary beads.
We have a love affair with the idea of the ‘natural,’ even though we, as a species, are about as unnatural as you can imagine.
‘Miscast’ is a family affair. It highlights so many different aspects of the industry in that one night, and it’s a great evening.
If you don’t like my work in ‘The Affair,’ that’s fine, but I’ll stand by the work because I felt that everything that went on camera was what I intended to go on camera.
When a writer talks about his work, he’s talking about a love affair.
You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.
I had a great love affair in high school and let myself have that love affair and tried to keep it to myself.
I just started taking pictures, and it was – it was an instant love affair. It was just ecstatic.
It’s weird, when I go back to San Francisco, the few times that I’ve done shows there since leaving, it still feels like I live there. It’s very, very strange for me. That’s where my daughter was born, at UCSF. I have this huge attachment to San Francisco. It’s like a love affair.
You know, I have to admit that this political crisis that takes place in our country is absolutely an internal affair. And we have – the Belarusian people – have a responsibility for what’s going on.
I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
Moviemaking is a dirty, tiring affair. The joy comes from the possibility to be free on set and really let loose.
Voting, for me, has always been a family affair.
Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.
I’ve had a love affair with every movie I’ve ever done.
As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.
The academy awards in England; it’s a classy affair as well.
I didn’t know if I should tell people that Johnny Cash had an affair with his sister-in-law while his wife was pregnant. How much does the public need to know about a performer?
Ever since studying in Russia as a college student, I had been in a long-distance, one-sided love affair with Chechnya’s remarkable history, culture and rugged natural beauty.
Politicians also have a love affair with the ‘small business exemption.’ Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it’s an admission that the costs of a regulation just can’t be justified.
On television, I love ‘The Crown,’ and ‘The Affair’ is so psychological.
Arab youth are taught to wonder, ‘Since the Holocaust was a European affair, why are the Palestinians being forced to pay for the creation of Israel?’
I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don’t put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.
I’m not into ‘The Voice.’ It’s an affair between a television network and a record company.
I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.
As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
I know I will never have an affair with a married man again.
I had a long-lasting love affair with the flavors from Japan and the hustling New York street vendors. And, of course, a life-changing return to Ethiopia has made huge impacts on my life in food.
I definitely never had an affair with the president.
America’s love affair with traveling into outer space is deeply entrenched.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
My wedding was a very private affair for close family and friends, so I had decided to hold a reception in my native town.
My grand affair appears settled, for America is certain of her independence, humanity has gained her cause, and liberty will never be without a place of refuge.
