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• Some of them [family names] have sentimental value for some reason or another, some of them just sound beautiful. Some of them are because of people that are meaningful to us in our lives. So it's hard to say which one we'll pick. Sometimes they say you have to see the child before you decide. So maybe when we see her we'll make a last-second decision.

  John Legend

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Children

  "John Legend Has His Dad Jokes at the Ready". Interview with Samantha Leal, www.marieclaire.com. January 14, 2016.

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• It's funny: not only with the title of the album but also the song [It's Decided]. I kind of felt nostalgic. The beginning lyric is, "There's almost a sentimental feeling to another time," and when I got together with Kevin, he just absolutely, in his own fashion, just pushed me to go deeper than I usually would want people to know. That was the most difficult part for me was to bring someone in.

  Andy Kim

  Song, Fashion, People

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• [Sherlock Holmes] has to understand the world. That's very much John's [Watson] influence on him. But like a lot of the friendships and relationships in that world, it's born out of necessity. It makes him better. There's a pragmatism to it. It's not whimsical or sentimental. It's born out of necessity.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  World, Influence, Whimsical

  "‘Sherlock’ Creators and Benedict Cumberbatch on “Myopically Dark” Season 4 and the Series’ Future". Interview, collider.com. August 2, 2016.

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• There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Birthday, Vintage, Age And Experience

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• Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents.

  Adele

  Birthday, Dream, Support

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• Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.

  Virginia Woolf

  Silly, Thinking, Peter

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.191, Broadview Press

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• There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Surrealist

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.541, Penguin

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• A lot of people hate heroes. I was criticized for portraying people who are brave, honest, loving, intelligent. That was called weak and sentimental. People who dismiss all real emotion as sentimentality are cowards. They’re afraid to commit themselves, and so they remain ‘cool’ for the rest of their lives, until they’re dead—then they’re really cool.

  Mark Helprin

  Hate, Real, Hero

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• Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.

  Nick Hornby

  Hopeful, Way, Feels

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.74, Penguin

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• Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Men, Suffering

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)”, p.2102, e-artnow

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• I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.

  Ann Patchett

  Lobster, Lasts

  Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2016.

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• They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Life, Birthday, Age

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• I'm not terribly sentimental.

  Katherine Heigl

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 13, 2008.

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• Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires as overwhelmingly the better mode of understanding the world, and would doubtless scorn religion as sentimental wishful thinking.

  Peter Atkins

  Powerful, Thinking, Understanding

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• Winnowing is more like a trip to the confessional...transparent & vulnerable without being sentimental. These songs have elements that are more like prayers & pleas for faith. They're questionings and wrangling in the dark about the journey.

  Bill Mallonee

  Song, Prayer, Dark

  "Out of the High Deserts: An Interview with Critically Acclaimed Songwriter, Bill Mallonee". Interview with Matt Litton, mattlitton.com.

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• I don't really collect anything. I grew up in a family that collected things and then they'd get sick and people die and then they have their basements full of stuff that goes from one box to the next, so I try not to get sentimental with stuff. I just try to collect memories.

  Derek Cianfrance

  Memories, People, Sick

  Source: collider.com

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• Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Pain, Going Away, Doe

  Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Thousand Cranes”, p.31, Vintage

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• She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remember this sensation very vividly - it was not like she was cutting hair, it was as if I had a pair of wings beneath my shoulder-blades, that the flesh had all grown over, and she was slicing free.

  Sarah Waters

  Cutting, Hair, Wings

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• Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew--knew--that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?

  J. D. Salinger

  Jesus, Stupid, Heaven

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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• [Hunt for the Wilderpeople] people seem to be just finding it hilarious in Sundance. I would think that judging on the feedback I get; it's a very warming film. It's not sentimental, but people are sort of heart warmed by a message that's pretty rare.

  Sam Neill

  Heart, Thinking, People

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• Cruel men cry easily at the cinema.

  Graham Greene

  Men, Cinema, Cry

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• We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it.

  John Banville

  Artist, Tough, Artist Love

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• Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires as overwhelmingly the better mode of understanding the world, and would doubtless scorn religion as sentimental wishful thinking. Would not that same uncluttered mind also see the attempts to reconcile science and religion by disparaging the reduction of the complex to the simple as attempts guided by muddle-headed sentiment and intellectually dishonest emotion?

  Peter Atkins

  Powerful, Simple, Thinking

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• Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.

  John Banville

  Fiction, Matter, Crime

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• There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.

  Menander

  Love, Marriage, Men

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