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So I go to my first book signing, and these two girls came up and gave me a piece of paper: ’10 reasons you should date our dad. He climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. He’s a lawyer.’ He didn’t know what was going on. He didn’t even know me. They called him, and he came down and asked me out that day. Now I’m dating their dad!
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Dating is different when you get older. You’re not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone.
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You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he’d be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn’t serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.
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So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn’t work out, I’d take that as failing.
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I’m not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do.
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I have no wisdom to share on dating.
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I don’t have dating tips.
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Are you kidding? I’m a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again.
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I’m very open to dating and finding a guy.
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Mary Tyler Moore was a working woman whose story lines were not always about dating and men. They were about work friendships and relationships, which is what I feel my adult life has mostly been about.
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I’m finally dating. It’s fun.
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I wish I was dating one of the ladies in ’Bollywood Hero.’ They’re gorgeous. Any of them.
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I like the idea of dating, but I’m not dating anyone exclusively, particularly right now. It’s hard to be in a relationship unless you’re ready to go public with it. So it’s a lot easier for me to not be in a relationship. I really don’t want that part of my life to be tabloid fodder.
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Like many of you, I’ve always been slightly obsessed with vampires, dating back to the prime-time series ’Dark Shadows,’ which I followed avidly as a kid.
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I ain’t scared to do another dating show, but I ain’t really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I’ve done enough dating on television. I’m ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
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Evolution is unobservable. It’s based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to ’one side is all we will let you hear.’
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If I’m with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I’m with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you’re supposed to have a role. You’re not allowed to just be yourself.
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We had two rules growing up in my house: If you’re going to take a shower, do it with whomever you’re dating so you don’t waste water and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody’s going to want one.
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Dating co-stars is natural. When you’re working with someone, it’s habit.
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I also find it interesting that a lot of people in their 30s are not married and don’t have kids. There are a lot of people in this age bracket that are out there dating and trying to find love. And I never thought that at my age I would be.