Over everything, over friendships or anything, is my kids – and obviously fighting for that belt is my kids’ future. It doesn’t sound too nice, but if my mom had the belt, she better give it up because my kids gotta eat. If I’m willing to fight my mom, imagine a good friend.
You get to choose the bond of lifelong friendships, of being there for the darkest and happiest of times.
I did not find that writing a diary with a lead male character differed in any essential way from writing one with a female character. They all had the same challenges in terms of attempting to establish an identity, coping with loneliness, friendships, relationships.
Over the years, I have created close friendships with many successful men, many of whom I have made a lot of money for through deals that I brought to them or business counsel that I have provided.
I’ve been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what’s going on in their love lives.
One of my best friendships dwindled in the pub business – we still talk, but it challenged that friendship too much – and that taught me to go into football and find people that I can have good relations with but without being overly friendly.
It’s hard for me to be involved in superficial friendships with other women.
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
There are many different shapes of friendships to be had.
We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, want, magic – of missing people, avoid others – like loneliness.
Get a hobby. Maintain your friendships. Hang out with other people.
Mary Tyler Moore was a working woman whose story lines were not always about dating and men. They were about work friendships and relationships, which is what I feel my adult life has mostly been about.
I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. That’s universal in women’s friendships.
We are already seeing the creation of a new kind of network based on friendships: Startups, which are often founded by friends, are the beginning of something that could reshape social relations.
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
I find, in film, we’re always making things and having these intense friendships and then losing track of people. When I first start a job, I’m quite nervous, and it takes me a while to find my place, and then it feels like I’m just really loving it and feeling great, and it’s all over.
If I had to choose between the band or the friendships, I’d choose the friendships at this point.
As an American, and especially as a Christian, I am convinced that a love for our own people is not a bad thing, but love doesn’t stop at borders. Love is infinitely boundless and all about holy trespassing and offensive friendships.
We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent’s birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend’s important anniversary.
Jesus said, ‘Greater things of these you shall do…’ Become a peace builder, a bridge builder, not a destroyer, and the way you do that is through friendships and relationships, and through authentic character.
I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.
Friendships that don’t fit my life anymore have faded away, and new ones have come in.
When actors are vying for the same kinds of roles, there’s bound to be a little rivalry. Deep friendships cannot be forged when you are competing with each other.
The more professional opportunities came my way, the more time I spent away from my friends – the people I truly cared about. Maintaining friendships with people to talk to, depend on and enjoy takes time.
You try to do the best for your club, and you also create relationships and friendships – with Neymar, my relationship is really strong.
If you’re lucky enough to have a Black friend who has tolerated your racist parents while you turned a blind eye to the mistreatment they’ve suffered, maybe start by saying sorry, and then actually change the record. It is that change that could literally save lives, or at the very least, save friendships.
When we started Airbnb, I had no idea about the people we would meet or the friendships I would make.
Secretly, I’m in awe of Broadway performers. I would love to perform at that level. I love the exchange with the audience. I love being able to sing and dance to express your emotions and the community and friendships that are formed when working on a theater piece.
Believe it or not, friendships are difficult to write in fiction. They can easily come across as forced, particularly if they involve too much explication and too many overt gestures of affection.
I’m blessed by having very long-term, solid friendships, and they’re such joyous things.
One must never compromise on finances and confuse personal friendships with professional charges.
Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.
It’s not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.
You don’t have to dislike people you disagree with and it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be able to have bipartisan friendships in this place. Life’s too short to have it any other way.
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.
You need to experience life to be able to write about friendships, relationships, and heartbreak.
I find I really put careful consideration into my friendships with women because the relationships can be so sensitive. Let’s face it: some women can be down right catty. This is what makes me cautious, but also what makes my true friendships so dear to me.
I support any means to make real connections so long as that it does lead really quickly to real connections. It’s the long-term online friendships and relationships that start to get a little hairy.
Most of my really strong friendships are with people I’ve known all my life.
Some of the most lasting contacts and friendships that I have developed began by just grabbing a drink or breaking bread with a stranger at an industry event.
It still feels like I am just playing with my mates a lot of the time. A lot of us in the England team have grown up playing cricket together and formed very close friendships, which makes the dressing room a very enjoyable place to be.
We actually have a small family. It’s just my father and I and my grandmother, who lives in Tokyo. I cherish my friendships.
When we’re talking about friendships, generosity and fairness and equanimity and sharing and all those things are super-important to me.
That’s always the biggest thing, especially in the secondary, is building not just communication and everything but friendships and bonds of off-the-field stuff and things like that.
Some of the choicest blessings of my life have been the close friendships I have experienced over the years. Often, these friendships have been forged in the fires of shared experience.
I have many intense friendships with artists. I don’t mean we have intense one-day conversations but ongoing conversations that last in some cases for years.
Being a scientist is a special privilege: for it brings the opportunity to be creative, the passionate quest for answers to nature’s most precious secrets, and the warm friendships of many valued colleagues.
I think I’m close to lot of people in Bollywood, but I believe in evil eye, and I feel when I talk about friendships and relationships in public something somewhere goes wrong with it.
I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
I cannot quantify the physics of friendships and do not know exactly how much intense pressure can be applied before these glittery, brittle bonds break.
You just don’t luck into things as much as you’d like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities.
I am a bit of a solitude person – a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don’t have any major friendships or relationships with people.
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
I think it’s weird that we expect ups and downs in friendships, but not in relationships. It all has to be romance, romance, romance – but there’s two people and there are always going to be disagreements, and you have to work at it.
