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" 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.' "

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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. "

" The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen. "

" I don't live with people, that's why my relationships last. I'm not romantic. Even when I was a teenager if somebody asked if they could hold my hand I'd say, - no, it's not heavy, I can hold it myself, thank you'. "

" 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. "

" I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon inspection. "

" I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived. "

" Dame Barbara Cartland was an endearing eccentric, and when I interviewed her, she wanted me to listen to her dictating to her secretary one of those romantic novels that she turned out fortnightly. "

" I was born with a romantic nature, and I'll carry it to my grave. "

" Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering. "

" I love being one half of a romantic couple. "

" I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it. "

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" I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy. "

" A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. "

" The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway. "

" Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else. "

" The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person. "

" America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief. "

" Romantic fiction, in the broader sense, can be any novel that has a love story somewhere in it. It can be a mystery or a historical novel, as long as it has this very strong romantic thread running through it. "

" Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept. "

" Harvard is the home of American ideas. "

" Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues. "

" In short I will part with anything for you but you. "

" I'm really good at making teen angst romantic. I'm really good at dealing with heartbreak and things like that and making it into this whole experience. But there's no way to make someone-on-the-Internet-said-something-mean-about-me into romantic angst where you can listen to music and cry or whatever. "

" That's so romantic, to wake up and find that he's packed a bag - and that for the next 48 hours, everything is taken care of. "

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" With 'Attachments,' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout. "

" Without romance, films will be boring. I doubt if people now understand romance, though they may claim it otherwise. I am very romantic in real life. "

" The average IQ in America is - and this can be proven mathematically - average. "

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" People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.' "

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