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" Romance is mush, stifling those who strive. "

Billy Strayhorn

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Zooey Deschanel

" I'm not the girl that sits at home on a Saturday night plaiting her girlfriend's hair, drinking tea and watching romantic comedies. "

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" Everything is just so much more romantic and real when it's yours and it's private. "

" When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn't live past 30. "

" Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. "

" I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden. "

" There are so many different reasons as to why I love riding trains. But I think ultimately it's the romantic feeling of it. There's something about it that just transports me into old films. "

" Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable; that's survival. "

" The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space. "

" I'm a teller of stories. I put bloody skins on my back and dance around the fire, and I say what the hunt was like. It's not erudite; it's not intellectual. I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker, and tell stories about the stuff I've been through. And I'm still a romantic; I still want Bambi to make it out of the fire. "

" Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia. "

" I'm a deeply romantic person, nostalgic to a fault. "

" If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anybody else, I say do it. If you want to go out and have a romantic, sexy affair, do it. "

Florence Henderson

" I'm not a social singer. But if one can take a social message via the romantic, that's a strong statement. "

" I'm very confident in my sexuality, and I really don't like talking about my romantic life in the press. "

" I will never create a romantic angle to survive on a game show. "

" I'm very romantic and of course I want to be in love. "

" If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it. "

" I'm a hopeless romantic. "

Hopeless Romantic

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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. "

Mary Wortley Montagu

" I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else. "

" We need a romantic illusion to embark on relationships in the first place. After that, they survive or fail for other, more practical reasons. "

" I'm a romantic and will only marry for love where there's respect and compatibility. I'd like to be with someone if the right person came along. I really like male company. I like the male mind. "

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

Joan Armatrading