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I confess, I'm one of those actors who finds it incredibly hard to divorce myself and my performance from the work itself.
Billy Crudup
Work
Myself
Incredibly
Those
Finds
Divorce
Performance
Itself
Confess
Hard
Who
Actor
During the divorce process, I lived alone and tended to get extremely down on myself.
Buzz Aldrin
Alone
Myself
Down
Extremely
Divorce
Get
Process
Lived
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
Caitlin Flanagan
Independence
Unwanted
Danger
Divorce
Tale
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Vulnerability
Being
Means
Meant
Novel
Orphaned
Though politicians and media eminences are too frightened to say so, nonmarital births are problematic. On just about any measure of development you can think of, children who are born to unmarried women fare worse than the children of divorce and far worse than children raised in intact families.
Charles Murray
You
Women
Politicians
Think
Too
Worse
Say
Unmarried
Though
Born
About
Divorce
Development
Intact
Families
Than
Frightened
Any
Just
Children
Problematic
Far
Fare
Measure
Who
Media
Raised
My mom is Episcopalian; my dad is ancestrally Jewish but personally atheist. After their divorce, however, my dad married a Jewish spiritual director, and I became fascinated by the traditions she brought into our lives.
Chloe Benjamin
Mom
Spiritual
Director
Atheist
Our
Our Lives
Married
Brought
Divorce
She
Became
However
Traditions
After
Personally
Episcopalian
Fascinated
Dad
Lives
Jewish
I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say.
Christina Aguilera
Life
Negative
My Life
Live
Say
Press
Would
Would-Be
Someone
Something
Divorce
Knew
Reaction
Because
Am
Going
Might
As you know, divorce is still not allowed in the Catholic Church. But here insert a large 'however' - she is liberal in the granting of annulments.
Christopher Buckley
You
Church
Liberal
Insert
Allowed
Divorce
Know
She
Catholic
Catholic Church
Still
However
Large
Here
The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible.
Christopher Monckton
Life
Family
Before
Respected
Possible
Born
Brought
Divorce
Importance
Up
Human
Where
Children
After
Loving
Should
Human Life
Notion
Even
Right
Universally
What a holler would ensue if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce.
Claire Trevor
People
Lawyer
Pay
Minister
Would
Marry
Had
Divorce
Get
Them
Much
You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
Clare Boothe Luce
Good
You
Mother
About
Only
Good Thing
Divorce
Know
Get
Your
Thing
Sleep
I think the key for a child to do well in a divorce is, very simply, you have to be honest with them.
Dale Archer
You
Key
To Be Honest
Think
Simply
Divorce
Well
Very
Child
Them
Honest
Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?
Dan Savage
Man
Women
Pretending
Dream
Besides
Marrying
Some
Husbands
Divorce
Court
Boyfriend
Go
Get
Going
Divorce is hard enough when you're an adult - never mind when you're a child. That was probably when my shyness started, when I was at my shyest.
DanTDM
You
Mind
Enough
Adult
Never
Divorce
Child
Hard
Started
Shyness
People always assume I don't need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it's always reported to be.
Daphne Guinness
Work
People
Money
Assume
Settlement
Divorce
Always
Reported
Much
Need
Nick spent his first years on walks in his stroller and Snugli, playing in Berkeley parks and baby gyms and visiting zoos and aquariums. His mother and I divorced when he was 4. No child benefits from the bitterness and savagery of a divorce like ours.
David Sheff
Benefits
Mother
Bitterness
First
Walks
Baby
Spent
Berkeley
Ours
Visiting
Parks
He
Divorce
Divorced
Like
His
Years
Child
Nick
Playing
Zoo
Savagery
In a family of faith, you don't believe in divorce; you believe you can make it.
Deborah Joy Winans
Faith
Family
You
Believe
Divorce
Make
When I was a kid, I had two nightmares: one was nuclear war, and the other was that my parents would get a divorce; and when I was twenty, they split up, and I just felt like I needed to confront all those things that scared me as a kid - entering young adulthood and trying to have relationships.
Derek Cianfrance
War
Me
Parents
Young
Other
Relationships
Kid
Those
Entering
Would
Scared
Split
Had
Adulthood
Divorce
Like
Felt
Up
Get
Trying
Just
Confront
Twenty
Nuclear
Things
Nuclear War
Two
Needed
Nightmares
Even if there was an opportunity to school yourself in different characters - characters that have distinct personalities which may be totally different from yours, you have got to completely divorce your own personality to be able to go over to the other personality.
Dilip Kumar
You
Yourself
Personality
School
Opportunity
Own
Other
Distinct
Characters
Able
Totally
Divorce
Over
Got
Go
May
Different
Different Characters
Which
Personalities
Your
Yours
Even
I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.
Dinah Sheridan
Cruelty
Later
Easy
Divorce
Got
Still
Years
Which
England
Grounds
Eleven
Within a twelve or fourteen month period, I went through a divorce from my wife of 29 years, which is devastating emotionally and earthshaking as far as your whole world being turned upside-down. And within that same twelve month period, I left the Eagles.
Don Felder
World
Wife
Month
Through
Devastating
Emotionally
Divorce
Period
Within
Years
Left
Same
Being
As Far As
Which
Far
Turned
Your
Whole
Twelve
Eagles
Fourteen
My biggest grouse since the time I filed for divorce has been that when all the drama unfolded, the children were made pawns. That should never be the case. You never know how it affects them.
Duniya Vijay
Time
You
Made
Drama
Has-Been
Case
Never
Divorce
Since
Know
How
Were
Been
Affects
Children
Biggest
Them
Should
Pawn
The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.
Edd Byrnes
Life
Hurts
My Life
Toughest
Divorce
Still
Thing
I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
Edward Albee
You
Divorce
Existed
Swear
One predictor for divorce is contempt, which to me is just another word for disrespect.
Elizabeth Banks
Me
Word
Disrespect
Divorce
Contempt
Another
Just
Which
Predictor
It feels like my books come true. I write these things, and then they kind of end up happening. I wasn't divorced, for example, when I wrote a book about divorce.
Elizabeth Berg
Book
Example
Books
Kind
About
Write
Divorce
Divorced
True
Feels
Come
Like
For Example
Wrote
End
Up
Happening
Then
Things
There is no denying that unhappiness - even violence - exists in some arranged marriages. Or that some arranged marriages are borne out of cruelty. And part of that six percent global divorce rate can be attributed to the powerful stigma against divorce that's present in countries where arranged marriage is common.
Elizabeth Flock
Marriage
Cruelty
Out
Marriages
Some
Borne
Percent
Rate
Part
Divorce
Powerful
Countries
Global
Attributed
Arranged
Stigma
Exists
Denying
Six
Common
Where
Unhappiness
Against
Even
Present
Violence
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