Seeing the world differently is one of the toughest incompatibilities to reconcile in a relationship.
When you’re rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I’ve talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I’ve ever wanted to do.
It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one’s own view of the nature of one’s relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.
Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader’s daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.
You don’t repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently – and I think that is what is going to make the difference.
You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.
I’m used to working with the director and producer, and that’s my relationship. It’s very simple.
Even in novels where the love relationship isn’t the focus, I feel like it’s often there, and the background is some barometer of whether this is a happy or sad story or whether this is a successful or unsuccessful life.
Before I got married, I had a girlfriend who ran off in the middle of our relationship with a millionaire. She called from the South of France and said, ‘I found one, I’m sorry. That’s it. Goodbye!’
‘Mekhi’ means, sort of, one who loves water, and the relationship with water and how water is important to life… It’s a sense of being needed and purpose – you know, we have a purpose on this earth, and we’re here to fill that.
I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.
At first we got along real well. Now… it’s pretty much just a professional relationship.
Working parents bring a certain amount of guilt to their relationship with their children.
With Hef it was a relationship. It’s the world that made a big thing out of it.
Just my relationship with people – my teammates, my family, my partner everything. I don’t really know how to explain it, it’s just a peaceful feeling inside.
If we are going to conduct espionage in the future, we are going to have to make some changes in the relationship between the intelligence community and the public it serves.
Fear runs our lives. It doesn’t matter who you are. You have to understand your relationship with fear. Whether you’re scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation – you have to size fear up.
The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.
Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. We’ve been withholding our labour for almost seven years now.
I have no idea what my best material is. Different people like different things. I’ll say this: The political stuff gets the press, but the relationship jokes sell all the seats.
People that I care about, that I consider being friends of mine, most of the things I discuss with them I wouldn’t discuss in public because it’s a real relationship. It’s not a relationship for the public, you know?
I really recommend it, to build a new physical relationship with yourself, and just do it on your own terms, and your own time, it can just give you a different sense of self-worth, and then help with your mental health too.
I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.
I think it was Dad who gave me my nickname ‘Katy Custard,’ recognising my deep, positive and lasting relationship with it.
Every garden scheme should have a backbone, a central idea beautifully phrased. Every wall, path, stone and flower should have its relationship to the central idea.
