The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Anita Brookner
You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to... →
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
Garth Brooks
I'd love to play a villain in a movie, the kind of bad guy you would never think of me being able to play. Like most people, I have a darker side... →
I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
I was really interested in how marriages work, how you can, you know, be in love with somebody and spend many years with your lives intertwined, but... →
Geraldine Brooks
You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very... →
While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is too inhibited by... →
If screenwriters have to kill off a female character, they love to give her cancer. We've seen so many great actresses go down to the Big C: Ali... →