Alan Sugar
Alan Sugar

I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.

Andrew Haigh
Andrew Haigh

You can achieve one thing, but because of that, you have to adapt or lose something else. If you end up in a relationship, you sometimes have to lose the closeness of your friendships, for example, or you have to move away somewhere... For me, that creates the sense of melancholy which I think exists in most people's lives.

Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope

They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.

Ara Parseghian
Ara Parseghian

One thing about Notre Dame, it's like a service academy in a lot of ways. There is a closeness.

Ben Domenech
Ben Domenech

'The Federalist' is a small staff, and our close-knit family of senior contributors outwork our competition because of that closeness.

Brett Young
Brett Young

I think I realized my parents' relationship was special when I had my first girlfriend, and she came from a broken marriage. I watched how much closeness there was between her and her mom, and also how much bickering.

Carrie Fisher
Carrie Fisher

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

Darren Star
Darren Star

Certainly when, you know, you put a lot of creative people together, there's ego and tension and all that stuff comes into play. But on the flip side, there's a lot of camaraderie and closeness.

Deborah Tannen
Deborah Tannen

In this world, conversations are negotiations for closeness in which people try to seek and give confirmation and support, and to reach consensus. They try to protect themselves from others' attempts to push them away.

Deborah Tannen
Deborah Tannen

Many mothers and daughters are as close as any two people can be, but closeness always carries with it the need - indeed, the desire - to consider how your actions will affect the other person, and this can make you feel that you are no longer in control of your own life.