“The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.”
— Tom Wolfe
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“When I read the script, I liked the script very much and I thought it was a marvelous part for her, because I think it is a change of pace. I mean, we know how wonderful she is in romantic comedy.”
— Albert Finney
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“Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.”
— George William Curtis
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“I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.”
— Gloria Swanson
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“Death was like love, a romantic escape.”
— Brigitte Bardot
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“Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.”
— Charles Kingsley
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“It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.”
— Walter Hagen
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“I want to do the romantic comedies. You know, the stuff that Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts or Reese Witherspoon would choose, of course.”
— Jessica Simpson
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“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
— Oscar Wilde
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“Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.”
— Cyril Connolly
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“It seemed romantic but also tragic – people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself.”
— David Millar
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