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

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" The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of their footsteps since a typical walk for Samuel T. Coleridge might last two days and cover 145km. "

" I don't want to be pigeonholed into doing just romantic comedies. But they're fun, and especially for women, it's nice to go to see them and enjoy that breath of fresh air. "

" There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism. "

" Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness. "

" It seems to me quite often that the journeys of young women are more moving because they are hemmed in more, and dramatically it's more interesting to think about and write about people whose lives are circumscribed in some way. "

" I'm quite gloomy. I just am one of those people, vaguely lugubrious. "

" I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with. "

" I will always be the hopeless romantic, more often pathetic than heroic. "

" The problem with romantic comedies is you know the ending by the poster. So they're not movies you can keep doing over and over again expect satisfaction somehow. "

" 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. "

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" I am deeply romantic and a genuine yet complex person. "

" The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. "

" It turns out that a husband who does the laundry, it's very romantic when you're older. And it's hard to believe when you're younger. But it's absolutely true. "

Sheryl Sandberg

" When you're making a film, you become incredibly close. It's not like you're filing away papers all day. You're creating with human emotions, so you do become very connected, so it is familial and romantic. "

" Lidia Bastianich, sorry, but kind of boring. I mean, I love Lidia, but you can fall asleep watching her. And Mario Batali? I love Mario to death... but he's not romantic or sensual. Those are the things I bring to the table. "

Giada De Laurentiis

" Love alone could waken love. "

" To do a romantic scene is the most unromantic thing to do on screen. "

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" When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love. "

" I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society. "

Rufus Wainwright

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" I believed that the husband takes care of the family, and the wife takes care of him, and they are true to each other. I know that sounds a romantic illusion, but it can be true. "

Debbie Reynolds

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