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• You are the promised kiss of springtime that makes the lonely winter seem long. You are the breathless hush of evening that trembles on the brink of a lovely song.

  Frank Sinatra

  Song, Lonely, Winter

  Song: All The Things You Are

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• Within my heart is carved a sculpture of your love.

  James Taylor

  Heart, Sculpture, Romantic Love

  Song: Someone, Album: One Man Dog

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• A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.

  Charles Dance

  Men, Landing, Stills

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• Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic comedies.

  Sandra Bullock

  Hate, Comedy, Available

  "Sandra Bullock: 'Why I hate romantic comedies'". Interview with John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2010.

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• There's plenty more fish in the sea than Prince Jonathan," he told her softly. "And this particular fish loves you with all his crooked heart." -George to Alanna

  Tamora Pierce

  Love You, Heart, Sea

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• There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.

  Nancy Meyers

  Writing, Reality, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Loni Anderson

  Light, Hands, Two

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Chow Yun-Fat

  Stars, Hero, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Writing, Thinking, Sentimental

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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

  Sex, Exercise, Affection

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.34, Elsevier

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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

  America, Gone, Way

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• Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them.

  Bill Pullman

  Sleep, Feelings, Lines

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• In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

  Carter Burwell

  Hair, Comedy, Mainstream

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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.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  Atmosphere, Mood, Schubert

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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

  Drama, Dark, Inbox

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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

  Views, People, Justice

  James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.352, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• For one kiss, darling, I swear everything I would give. Cause you're a walking, talking reason to live.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Kissing, Talking, Giving

  Song: Crush On You, Album: The River, 1980

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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.

  Jane Campion

  Independence, Today, Facts

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• Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

  Joan Armatrading

  Romantic Love, Baroque Music, Baroque

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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.

  John Boorman

  Thinking, Two Sides, Important

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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

  Romance, Comedy, Bridal

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• Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot.

  Matthew Lillard

  America, Office, Doe

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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

  Song, Hopeless, Ballads

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. August 26, 1998.

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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.

  Brian Lumley

  Crazy, Evil, Vampire

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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

  Office, Feelings, Documentaries

  "Mindy Kaling Talks Acting in and Producing THE MINDY PROJECT, Returning to THE OFFICE, GAME OF THRONES Obsessions and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 30, 2012.

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