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When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn't know what to say to myself.
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Michael Zaslow
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I like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama.
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Pia Zadora
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Basically, I'm a romantic.
Author:
Pia Zadora
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As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.
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Peter Wright
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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.
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Beatrice Wood
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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.
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Tom Wolfe
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I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself.
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Olivia Wilde
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I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.
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Hugo Weaving
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
Author:
Naomi Watts
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Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.
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Bobby Vinton
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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.
Author:
Gabrielle Union
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I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.
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Gene Tierney
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People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.
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Richard Thompson
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A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
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Arthur Symons
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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.
Author:
Andrew Sullivan
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Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.
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Janet Street-Porter
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I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.
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Gloria Steinem
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Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.
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Sylvester Stallone
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I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.
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Robert Smith
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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.
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Margaret Smith
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There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
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Paul Simon
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The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
Author:
Irwin Shaw
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Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy.
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Izabella Scorupco
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Clearly romantic comedy is my franchise genre, I don't mind saying that, it's true. I love doing them and hopefully always will do them.
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Meg Ryan
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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.
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Tim Roth
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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.
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Portia Rossi
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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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Rebecca Romijn
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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.
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Julia Roberts
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With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.
Author:
Bill Pullman
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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.
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Sean Penn
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Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.
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Robin Penn
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If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.
Author:
John Passos
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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.
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Sarah Parker
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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.
Author:
Stevie Nicks
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Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets.
Author:
George Murray
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After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.
Author:
Nicholas Mosley
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I'm a very romantic person.
Author:
Esai Morales
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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.
Author:
Thomas Moore
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We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.
Author:
Mary Montagu
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I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.
Author:
Matthew Modine
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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.
Author:
Kate Millett
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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.
Author:
Wentworth Miller
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At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.
Author:
John McLaughlin
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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.
Author:
Sarah McLachlan
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The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.
Author:
Ewan McGregor
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If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.
Author:
David McCallum
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
Author:
Andre Maurois
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If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.
Author:
Neville Marriner
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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.
Author:
Marya Mannes
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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.
Author:
Joel Madden
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But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.
Author:
Brian Lumley
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The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
Author:
Bela Lugosi
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New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.
Author:
Josh Lucas
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You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.
Author:
Jennifer Lopez
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I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.
Author:
Jeremy London
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I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.
Author:
Ang Lee
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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.
Author:
Fran Lebowitz
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I enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them.
Author:
Joe Lando
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I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.
Author:
Charles Kuralt
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I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.
Author:
Sally Kellerman
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Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
Author:
James Joyce
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I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.
Author:
James Jones
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Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.
Author:
James Jones
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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.
Author:
James Johnson
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The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.
Author:
Don Johnson
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And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
Author:
Norman Jewison
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Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
Author:
Norman Jewison
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I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.
Author:
Norman Jewison
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I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s... Huge fan. I love all that stuff.
Author:
Thomas Jane
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I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of "The West Wing." We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it.
Author:
Jason Isaacs
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I'm very romantic.
Author:
Enrique Iglesias
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I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not.
Author:
Kate Hudson
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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
Author:
Douglas Horton
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I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing.
Author:
Jennifer Hewitt
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I'm a hopeless romantic, and very much the person in a relationship to go: If things are going well, I'll buy the flowers, remember the dates of things, plan fun nights out.
Author:
Jennifer Hewitt
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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.
Author:
Salma Hayek
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
Author:
Walter Hagen
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Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
Author:
Bill Griffith
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The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.
Author:
Hugh Grant
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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.
Author:
Maggie Gallagher
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By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
Author:
John Galbraith
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It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
Author:
Edgar Friedenberg
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I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.
Author:
Morgan Freeman
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I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.
Author:
Morgan Freeman
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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.
Author:
Morgan Freeman
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You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it.
Author:
Robert Frank
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It was the most romantic plane ever made.
Author:
Ken Follett
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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
Author:
F. Fitzgerald
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I would like to do maybe a smaller romantic comedy.
Author:
Linda Fiorentino
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When I read the script, I liked the script very much and I thought it was a marvelous part for her, because I think it is a change of pace. I mean, we know how wonderful she is in romantic comedy.
Author:
Albert Finney
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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.
Author:
Harvey Fierstein
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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.
Author:
Freddy Fender
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In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.
Author:
Chow Fat
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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.
Author:
Will Estes
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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.
Author:
Buchi Emecheta
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The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Author:
Henry Ellis
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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.
Author:
Havelock Ellis
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Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
Author:
Barbara Ehrenreich
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I'd like to do a romantic comedy.
Author:
Aaron Eckhart
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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
Author:
Max Eastman
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As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot.
Author:
Sanjay Dutt
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Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.
Author:
William Dunbar
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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.
Author:
Joe DiMaggio
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In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.
Author:
Dietrich Dieskau
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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.
Author:
Cameron Diaz
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Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.
Author:
Johnny Depp
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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.
Author:
Catherine Deneuve
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I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.
Author:
James D'arcy
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A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.
Author:
Charles Dance
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I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.
Author:
Dick Dale
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You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.
Author:
Patricia Clarkson
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When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.
Author:
Morris Chestnut
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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.
Author:
Joan Chen
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Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.
Author:
Chevy Chase
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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.
Author:
Nick Carter
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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.
Author:
Lillian Carter
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Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.
Author:
Jane Campion
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What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
Author:
Italo Calvino
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In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.
Author:
Carter Burwell
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I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.
Author:
Carter Burwell
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I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic.
Author:
Brooke Burke
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I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.
Author:
Louise Brown
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I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.
Author:
James Brooks
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The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Author:
Anita Brookner
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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.
Author:
Jeff Bridges
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Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes.
Author:
Anne Boyd
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In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity.
Author:
Anne Boyd
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There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.
Author:
John Boorman
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I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.
Author:
Orlando Bloom
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I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
Author:
Orlando Bloom
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We are in desperate need of a well-done romantic lesbian comedy.
Author:
Jill Bennett
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I want to do more action adventures and more romantic comedies.
Author:
Maria Bello
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I don't want to be pigeonholed into doing just romantic comedies. But they're fun, and especially for women, it's nice to go to see them and enjoy that breath of fresh air.
Author:
Kristen Bell
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Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.
Author:
Glenn Beck
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My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd.
Author:
Jennifer Beals
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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.
Author:
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.
Author:
Joseph Barbera
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I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting audited and I'm on the street and I desperately need some dough and that's the only thing that I'm getting.
Author:
Christian Bale
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In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.
Author:
Christian Bale
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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.
Author:
Irving Babbitt
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I'm really a romantic at heart.
Author:
Christopher Atkins
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Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.
Author:
Joan Armatrading
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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
Author:
Margaret Anderson
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In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.
Author:
Loni Anderson
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There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
Author:
Ben Affleck
