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" Get married wherever you like, make accommodations for the people you love so they can attend, and forget about the people who can't. "
Emily V. Gordon
Forget
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People
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" If you've experienced cheating in a new marriage, the real work is not obsessively combing through all the details of what happened, but rather figuring out if your relationship is worth saving. "
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" Experiences don't make us damaged goods; it's what we do with those experiences that matters. "
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" I'd watch shows like 'The Kids in the Hall' or 'Twin Peaks,' and I'd see weird people being celebrated and appreciated without compromising their weirdness. On 'The Facts of Life,' I'd see girls who were pudgy, beautiful, popular, tomboyish - many ways of being female - and I'd feel quietly reassured. "
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" For so long, TV consisted of a limited number of shows a year, and those shows had to appeal to as many people as possible. The joy of TV now is that shows don't have to be broad anymore - they can be small, weird, and niche. "
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" Far from 'rotting my brain,' as I was often told would happen, TV helped me feel less alone at a time when I spent so much time alone. "
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" Parents go to sleep early. This is universal. "
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" I have a pretty intense work ethic. If something's not done, I cannot let go until I get it done. "
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" People get married for a wide array of reasons and have all sorts of expectations of how marriage will change the relationship. And while it's true that turning the person you're dating into a legal partner does affect certain things, those who expect marriage to be a cure-all for all your relationship woes are sorely mistaken. "
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" Not deciding is a decision. People don't realize that not making a decision is a decision in itself. "
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" Everybody's got baggage, and not just the classic, 'Oh I have so much baggage,' but everyone comes with so much context, and you're not just dating a person: you're dating all their context, too. Part of relationships is negotiating each other's context. "
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" In Hollywood, it seems that the people least successful at being married are the ones most eager to tie the knot over and over again. "
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" I think it's always good to get into your partner's mindset. "
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" Nothing makes a girl feel as unsexy as divorce. "
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" Ghosts of Marriages Past can haunt many aspects of a new relationship - your expectations of what a man should do, how you behave in conflict, your ideas of how commitment should look - they can even make your new man look untrustworthy when he's really behaving normally. "
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" When someone insists that you watch a show that's already been on for a few seasons, they're basically saying, 'Hey, you're not doing anything for the next five weeks, are you? Because have I got a plan for you every single night! It's 'Weeds!'' "
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" I don't remember being put into the coma, but I do have a lot of weird memories from being under. This may be because I was in a coma via medicine rather than trauma. That time period played out for me as one long rambling dream where I was at a hospital to visit my boyfriend, who I thought was in an accident. "
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" I had a tightly knit group of female friends in elementary school - we called ourselves the Sensational Six. "
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" Nothing makes me feel more mushy and full of love for my husband than going back and looking at our flirtation unfolding online. I love reading our old e-mails, texts, and Gchats. "
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" I'm tired of hearing about 'Damages,' I don't care how life-changing 'The Wire' is, and I don't want to hear another word about 'Battlestar Galactica' or its super-awesome ending. "
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" Marriage will not change your spouse. It will not make him or her more mature, more loyal to you, or better at housework. "
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" I always tell people, 'Take a class or volunteer.' It really helps you get out of your own little pocket of people you always see and gets you exposed to a new group of people. "
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" People all want and need different emotional responses - some people like to be talked down when they're angry; some people want to be left alone. "
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