romantic
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘romantic’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“I don’t think of death in a romantic way anymore.” -Robert Smith
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“Dinner is a great first date. Don’t believe that stuff about girls not wanting to eat on a first date – sharing a romantic meal is so sexy.” -Carmen Electra
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“I have a great wife and it’s very easy to be romantic because it makes her happy and then my life is so much better when she’s happy.” -Nicholas Sparks
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“Latin men are the most passionate men in the world – they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very passionate, very romantic.” -Brooke Burke
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“My husband, Sal, and I put date nights on the calendar once a week. I know that doesn’t sound romantic, but otherwise it won’t get done.” -Sherri Shepherd
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“It’s easier to write from my own life, and it’s also more fun. I always write about relationships, for instance, whether they’re romantic relationships, friendships, encounters… there’s always a lesson to be learned from them.” -Jason Mraz
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“There’s nothing more romantic than Italian food.” -Elisha Cuthbert
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“I don’t think that digital photography is romantic yet. It’s not sympathetic the way that film is.” -Matthew Modine
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“I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It’s a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is represented in the media, in film in particular, it is presented as something that is really a special event, whether it’s a great date or something that’s just hugely romantic.” -Renee…
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“I hope that I would be considered romantic. I don’t know… one of my favorite movies is ‘The Notebook’ so I guess that would be considered romantic. But I think being romantic is more than the flowers and the gifts. It’s about connecting with the person and being able to talk and share things with…
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“And I don’t believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes.” -Michael Haneke
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“It’s been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they’ve got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all.” -Jane Campion
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“Is Valentine’s Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine’s is supposed to be a day about romantic love.” -Ayelet Waldman
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“I love crying at romantic movies like ‘The Notebook.’ I’m always bawling.” -Fergie
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“I love Valentine’s Day! I love it, I love it, I love it. I like having doors opened for me. My favorite romantic comedy is ‘When Harry Met Sally.’” -Ginnifer Goodwin
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“I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there’s something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.” -Padma Lakshmi
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“I’m a big romantic, traditional, cheesy guy.” -Josh Hutcherson
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“You’re an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational – and probably sexual!” -George Herman
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“I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind.” -Wentworth Miller
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“The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I’ve often found myself following in their footsteps – although perhaps not all of their footsteps since a typical walk for Samuel T. Coleridge might last two days and cover 145km.” -Arthur Smith
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“The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.” -James Weldon Johnson
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“I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn’t afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can’t afford power you’re pretty broke. You endure it.” -Jeremy Renner
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“I’ve always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started going to these strange raves where everybody had these very definitive costumes.” -Florence Welch
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“I feel like I’ve done a bunch of period stuff and then a bunch of romantic comedies.” -Kate Beckinsale
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“I’m a fan of daytime drama I totally get it. When we are doing scenes that are romantic or will get the audience riled up, I feel like I’m a fan in the room going, ‘People are going to be so mad right now!’” -Alison Sweeney
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“Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we grow up, we grow out of our haircuts, our apartments and – often times – our romantic decisions.” -Patti Stanger
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“Conductors’ careers are made for the most part with ‘Romantic’ music. ‘Classic’ music eliminates the conductor we do not remember him in it.” -Igor Stravinsky
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“The phrase ‘off with the crack of the bat’, while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.” -Joe DiMaggio
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“I would have loved to do ‘Alice in Wonderland.’ Being a ‘Bond’ girl would always be fun. We had a lot of action in ‘Eclipse’ and I’d definitely like to continue down the action road. I want to do a romantic period piece, but those are really hard to get made because they’re very expensive…
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“It’s a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn’t write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.” -Sarah McLachlan
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“The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.” -Bela Lugosi
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“I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.” -Vera Farmiga
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“Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, ‘Another romantic comedy?’ You see her in something like ‘Walk the Line’ and think, ‘God, you’re so great!’ And then you think, ‘Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?’ But of course, it’s for money and status.” -Gwyneth Paltrow
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“I don’t know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never.” -Kristen Wiig
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“Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like ‘You’re the romantic comedy girl’ or ‘You’re the Oscar-winning whatever girl.’” -Rachel Weisz
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“The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It’s the ones that become the friendships that last.” -Andrew Sullivan
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“I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.” -Conrad Hall
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“I wouldn’t feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy – I’d be bored to death.” -Joaquin Phoenix
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“I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that’s quite romantic.” -Orlando Bloom
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“I’ve programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that’s the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come – you know, the stories and things like that.” -R. Kelly
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“Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.” -Cyril Connolly
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“You know, I’ve always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.” -Fiona Apple
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“Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other’s eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.” -Maggie Gallagher
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“I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it’s really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.” -Rachel McAdams
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“And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.” -Beatrice Wood
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“I love romantic comedies. They’re for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There’s nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That’s not second nature to me, thank God.” -Gabrielle Union
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“The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.” -Vanessa Paradis
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“When I was younger – it might be a romantic idea – I always thought I might go crazy.” -Diane Kruger
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“I think I’m a romantic person, yeah.” -Antonio Banderas
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“I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.” -Gene Tierney
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“You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it’s like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.” -Tom Hanks
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“The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there’s no ‘dark comedy’ inbox for the advertising.” -Gus Van Sant
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“Lidia Bastianich, sorry, but kind of boring. I mean, I love Lidia, but you can fall asleep watching her. And Mario Batali? I love Mario to death… but he’s not romantic or sensual. Those are the things I bring to the table.” -Giada De Laurentiis
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“I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.” -Elizabeth Wurtzel
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“The only thing I would unequivocally say is that I have never had any interest in romantic comedy I just couldn’t do it. I think I’d be terrible.” -Christian Bale
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“I’m a big romantic, so I love guys who are romantic too.” -Ashley Tisdale
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“It’s funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts.” -Jason Reitman
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“I am a hopeless romantic. And I won’t stop till I get it right.” -Halle Berry
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“I’m not what you might call sexy, but I’m romantic. Let’s put it that way.” -Betty White
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“The state of New Jersey is really two places – terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It’s very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I…
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“I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.” -Sidney Poitier
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“On ‘The Office,’ so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.” -Mindy Kaling
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“My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.” -Salma Hayek
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“I don’t think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.” -Gary Oldman
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“Suddenly I’ve got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.” -Sylvester Stallone
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“Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people it’s also a political and economic contract of the highest order.” -Elizabeth Gilbert
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“If I eat a huge meal and I can get the girl to rub my belly, I think that’s about as romantic as I can think of.” -Ryan Gosling
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“I’ve flown across America, I’ve scaled fences, I’ve stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I’m a hopeless romantic. There’s no hope for me.” -Joel Madden
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“You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it’s hard to find a new way to tell that story.” -Rashida Jones
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“I want to do the romantic comedies. You know, the stuff that Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts or Reese Witherspoon would choose, of course.” -Jessica Simpson
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“I think in general, romantic comedies tend to take one person’s point of view, but every once in a while you get something that is balanced for two people.” -Sandra Bullock
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“I feel close to Lloyd in ‘Say Anything’. He was like a super-interesting version of me. Only I’m not as good as him. Whatever part of me is romantic and optimistic, I reached into that to play Lloyd.” -John Cusack
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“It’s the contemporary woman that movies don’t know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.” -James Wolcott
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“A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.” -Jennifer Lopez
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“I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in.” -Morgan Freeman
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“We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.” -Irving Babbitt
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“Is this not the true romantic feeling not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.” -Thomas Wolfe
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“If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.” -Gordon Ramsay
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“Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.” -Tim Roth
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“I happen to be really a romantic.” -Amanda Seyfried
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“When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.” -Emma Watson
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“I’m not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing ‘All the Way,’ I was really thinking about my wife. People don’t know my personal experience, but they can tell it’s an honest interpretation.” -Harry Connick, Jr.
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“I think as a young actress, it’s very rare that you read something where you’re not either ‘the girl’ or there to serve some romantic purpose in a male dominated cast.” -Sienna Miller
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“I’m always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.” -David Duchovny
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“I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It’s just a genre that’s very human.” -Lena Dunham
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“I’m not a romantic. In life I didn’t have much experience with romance.” -Ang Lee
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“Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one’s life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.” -Charles Kuralt
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“Vinyl is the real deal. I’ve always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don’t really own the album. And it’s not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.” -Jack White
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“I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It’s something that’s increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before.” -Julia Roberts
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“That’s what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.” -Catherine Deneuve
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“I’m a hopeless romantic with a dirty mind.” -Leelee Sobieski
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“As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it’s because I’ve played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.” -Jeff…
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“In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.” -Havelock Ellis
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“It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino’s work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.” -Jerry Saltz
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“My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.” -Alanis Morissette
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“My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it’s incredibly romantic.” -Christina Ricci
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“The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.” -Kate Millett
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“Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.” -James Joyce
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“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Everyone who knows me knows that I’m a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.” -Henry Rollins
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“By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it’s easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin’ man and the loner.”…
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“If you’re a woman and a guy’s ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it.” -Louis C. K.
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“Stand-up is like a row boat: it’s fun and romantic when you’re choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it’s not as enjoyable that’s survival.” -Demetri Martin
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“I love surprises – champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.” -Danica McKellar
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“I think it’s important to have closure in any relationship that ends – from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.” -Jennifer Aniston
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“We believe that according the name ‘investors’ to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a ‘romantic.’” -Warren Buffett
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“I’m into all that sappy stuff – a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I’m kind of an old romantic.” -Will Estes
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“I’m always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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“You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I’m older and wiser and I think I’d make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.” -Stevie Nicks
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“It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.” -Walter Hagen
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“You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it’s a role that’s underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.” -Harvey Fierstein
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“I think I’ll always be a hopeless romantic.” -Kim Kardashian
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“The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.” -Leslie Caron
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“Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.” -John Greenleaf Whittier
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“Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.” -Dar Williams
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“I’m a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.” -Rachel Hunter
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“My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films.” -Corey Hart
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“I don’t like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you.” -Michelle Trachtenberg
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“If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.” -Bernard Williams
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“Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.” -Billy Strayhorn
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“Am I a romantic? I’ve seen ‘Wuthering Heights’ ten times. I’m a romantic.” -Johnny Depp
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“I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love.” -Nick Carter
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“Romance is dead – it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.” -Yeardley Smith
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“I love being one half of a romantic couple.” -Julianna Margulies
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“That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it’s pure, it means that they do too.” -Sean Penn
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“The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.” -Anita Brookner
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“I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it’s beautiful. I’m such a romantic, and I always have been.” -Portia de Rossi
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“Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.” -Lillian Gordy Carter
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“I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.” -Gloria Swanson
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“Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I’d think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix… I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.” -Jean-Michel Basquiat
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“I believe that when you’re in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner… or why bother? So in that sense I’m an incurable romantic when it comes to men.” -Cameron Diaz
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“Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.” -George William Curtis
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“There’s something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.” -Ben Affleck
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“In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person.” -Margaret Anderson
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“There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.” -Sammy Davis, Jr.
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“There’s something about the sound of a train that’s very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.” -Paul Simon
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“I’m very romantic, I’m extremely romantic. I date my wife.” -Alice Cooper
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“French is the language that turns dirt into romance.” -Stephen King
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“Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.” -Thomas Moore
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“We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.” -Andre Maurois
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“Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.” -Charles Kingsley
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“I’m a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we’re hurt, we hurt for a long time.” -Freddy Fender
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“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.” -Charles Bukowski
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“The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.” -Virginia Woolf
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“The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that’s it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.” -Joan Chen
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“Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.” -Bette Davis
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“I think romance is anything honest. As long as it’s honest, it’s so disarming.” -Kristen Stewart
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“The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.” -Douglas Horton
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“Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.” -Glenn Beck
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“The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.” -Marya Mannes
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“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.” -William Shakespeare
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“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.” -Oscar Wilde
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“The word ‘romance,’ according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.” -Billy Graham
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“A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.” -Charlie Chaplin
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“Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.” -Fran Lebowitz
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“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.” -Emily Dickinson
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“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.” -John Keats
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“Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye That’s all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.” -William Butler Yeats
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“When men attempt bold gestures, generally it’s considered romantic. When women do it, it’s often considered desperate or psycho.” -Sarah Jessica Parker
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