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• I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her.

  Matthew Perry

  Girl, Real, Stress

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• I'm not saying that charming, witty and warm copy won't sell. I'm just saying I've seen thousands of charming, witty campaigns that didn't sell.

  Rosser Reeves

  Witty, Campaigns, Just Saying

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• Why can't you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It's very charming. It's very sweet. It's what the whole world should do.

  Michael Jackson

  Sweet, Loving Someone, Bed

  "Bradley Had Profound Impact on Black Journalists". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. November 10, 2006.

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• Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

  George Farquhar

  True Love, Teacher, Teaching

  'The Constant Couple' (1699) act 5, sc. 3.

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• My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.

  Christopher Durang

  Mother, Father, Thinking

  "Family Survival". Interview with Arthur Holmberg, americanrepertorytheater.org.

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• Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.

  William H. Macy

  Kings, Writing, Ironic

  "Wordcatcher : An Odyssey into the World of Weird and Wonderful Words". Book by Phil Cousineau, 2010.

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• It's a very charming movie about the mob - a real stretch for me.

  James Caan

  Real

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• I feel for Veronica Mars so much when I'm watching at home. It is a wonderful story. The writing is consistently funny, biting, charming, heart-wrenching, etc. I also like the look of it. The cinematography - different from any other show.

  Jason Dohring

  Home, Writing, Heart

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• It's not charming to go on a show and say, I dunno. It doesn't fool anybody. There's nothing glamorous about it at all.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Goes On, Fool, Glamorous

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• Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had all the harmonies of universal serenity responded more thoroughly to the inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, more ecstatic.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Sky, Bird

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3116, Delphi Classics

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• It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.

  J. W. N. Sullivan

  Art, Real, Science

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• I'm a handsome man with a charming personality.

  Gabe Newell

  Men, Personality, Handsome

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 4, 2014.

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• I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection.
  
  When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person.

  Robin Williams

  Mother, Connections, Needs

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• I think there's something charming about incorporating summer clothes into winter, like pairing a summery skirt with a massive sweater. I'm also really into layering during the winter!

  Debby Ryan

  Summer, Winter, Thinking

  "Debby Ryan's Winter Fashion And Beauty Tips". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. November 8, 2012.

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• The only jobs kids have are to do well in school, to be charming and polite, and be thankful. That's it. I'll house you, protect you, I'll even give my life for you, and in return, you will behave.

  Gene Simmons

  Jobs, School, Kids

  Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. October 14, 2009.

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• The short winter’s day was drawing to a close. It seems to me sometimes that these are the only days I have ever known, and especially that most charming moment of all, just before night
  wipes them out.

  Samuel Beckett

  Winter, Night, Drawing

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.56, Grove Press

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• There are several cats smoothly moving about, which helped me greatly to relax, for I have always felt that no house is wholly bad where there are cats, and conversely, where there are several cats, a house is bound to be wonderfully charming.

  Hans Holzer

  Moving, Cat, House

  Hans Holzer (2012). “Ghosts: True Encounters with the World Beyond”, p.537, Open Road Media

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• My style has always been to choose the charming and quirky.

  Suzy Menkes

  Style, Quirky

  "Suzy Menkes cleans house" by Lars Byrresen Petersen, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 30, 2013.

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• Girls especially are fond of exchanging confidences with those whom they think they can trust; it is one of the most charming traits of a simple, earnest-hearted girlhood, and they are the happiest women who never lose it entirely.

  Lucy Larcom

  Girl, Simple, Thinking

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to be to us as a charming dream.

  Joseph Joubert

  Dream, Believe, Acting

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• A lot of women don't like when they're sort of fat, but a fat foot is as beautiful as a skinny foot. Think of Greek statues. Look how many people love the foot of the baby! There is something super-charming about the baby foot.

  Christian Louboutin

  Beautiful, Baby, Thinking

  "Sole Mate". Interview with Lauren Collins, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2011.

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• The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.

  John Milton

  Angel, Voice, Ears

  John Milton (1750). “Paradise lost: a poem in twelve books”, p.67

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• When she took her opposite place in the carriage corner, the brightness in her face was so charming to behold, that on her exclaiming, "What beautiful stars and what a glorious night!" the Secretary said "Yes," but seemed to prefer to see the night and the stars in the light of her lovely little countenance, to looking out of window.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Beautiful, Stars

  Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens: Our mutual friend”, p.461

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• Nearly all rich and powerful people are not notably talented, educated, charming or good-looking. They become rich and powerful by wanting to be rich and powerful.

  Paul Arden

  Powerful, People, Rich

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• There is something about saying, 'We always do this,' which helps keep the years together. Time is such an elusive thing that if we keep on meaning to do something interesting, but never do it, year would follow year with no special thoughtfulness being expressed in making gifts, surprises, charming table settings, and familiar, favorite food. Tradition is a good gift intended to guard the best gifts.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Years, Interesting, Together

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