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"Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with."

Jane Campion on Romantic

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  • "Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow."

    William Shakespeare on Romantic

  • "Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."

    Oscar Wilde on Romantic

  • "The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime."

    Billy Graham on Romantic

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

    Charlie Chaplin on Romantic

  • "Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw."

    Fran Lebowitz on Romantic

More quotes by Jane Campion

  • "It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they've got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all."

  • "There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all, this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean."

  • "I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it."

  • "I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it."

  • "I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive."

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