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" My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage. "

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" My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In fact, I seem not particularly inclined to write romantic love as a narrative motive or as an easy source of happiness for my characters. "

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" In 1998, it was possible to make a big-screen romantic comedy about email. Yep, email - the same medium we often think of now as boring and even annoying. "

" I am a romantic, and I think dates are wonderful. I like quirky and fun things. Like going for a bike ride or for a pedicure together. "

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

Joan Armatrading

" 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. "

" I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy. "

" I've never felt that I had to take a role in one of those mediocre but hugely budgeted romantic comedies because I want to wear beautiful dresses and have people think I'm pretty and that I get the guy. "

" After my divorce, I took some time off from having a romantic life to begin the tough work of figuring out where I'd gone wrong and what on Earth I could do to understand how to be a whole person in a relationship. "

Emily V. Gordon

" 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. "

" For food to be romantic, it should be light. Too many times people plan a romantic meal, and the food is too heavy. "

" We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds. "

" I guess it's ridiculously romantic, but I wanted to be a full tilt, sink-or-swim writer. "

Daniel Woodrell

" 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

" When I give I give myself. "

" When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author. "

" The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical. "

" Cooking is always very romantic! "

Matthew Morrison

" In medicine as well as in romantic poetry, it is the heart that is the center and controlling mechanics of life. If the heart stops, life stops. The loss of sight doesn't not mean death. Yet for ages, the eyes was believed to contain a human being's vital essence - a not wholly irrational belief. "

" All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. "

Edgar Allan Poe

" Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country. "

" I've always said - I've always said I'm not, by temperament, a romantic about revolutions or given to revolutions. I've always thought that they are not the ideal way to change. "

" I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and that's what I really loved about 'King Kong.' "

" My mother was a reader; my father was a reader. Not anything particularly sophisticated. My mother read fat historical or romantic novels; my father liked to read Westerns, Zane Grey, that kind of stuff. Whatever they brought in, I read. "

John Edgar Wideman

" A shiny ring isn't romantic to me. I think thought and love into what you do for the person you're in love with - that's romance. "

" 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

" They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, 'But doesn't it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn't it be set in New Guinea?' And you say, 'But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.' "

" People get this very romantic vision of a fashion designer who in one night makes 25 sketches and in the morning throws them on the table and there are a lot of women in white aprons with the pins on the lapel and they start to grab the sketches and... It's not like that. "

Dries van Noten

" I don't believe there is one most romantic act that a guy can do; I think it is all about the couple in question, which totally differs. It's about you thinking about the person you are with and doing something tailored and thoughtful for them. "