Albert Paley Quotes

At first when I realized I was a romantic, I was sort of shocked and shamed. But it is true... that the material I work most with is emotion.

Albert Paley

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• I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Love
  • Romantic
  • For Him

• 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.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Fire
  • Professional
  • Romantic

• I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Emotion
  • Scared
  • Fearless

• I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Romantic
  • New
  • New York

• 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.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Beautiful
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• The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Player
  • Vision

• The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Up
  • Language

• When I'm away from the field, I show a little more emotion and stuff.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Emotion
  • More
  • Show

• I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n roll lifestyle and still be romantic.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Live
  • Rock
  • Romantic

• Sex is emotion in motion.

  

  Mae West
  • Sex
  • Emotion
  • Motion

• When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems very exciting. It's only later that you begin to realize how fascinating the work is - that it's a bottomless pit, and you never get to the end of it.

  

  Sada Thompson
  • Work
  • Believe
  • End

• I've always loved the language of flowers. I discovered Kate Greenaway's 'Language of Flowers' in a used bookstore when I was 16 and couldn't believe it was such a well-kept secret. How could something so beautiful and romantic be virtually unknown?

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Believe
  • Beautiful
  • Romantic

• I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Romantic
  • Theory
  • Bit

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

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • Romantic
  • Dead
  • Disney

• 'Bombay Velvet' is my most romantic film, it's my 'Titanic' or 'Gone With The Wind.'

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Film
  • Wind
  • Romantic

• How did I go from 'Menace II Society' to 'Love Jones?' There wasn't a poetic moment or romantic bone in O-Dog's body.

  

  Larenz Tate
  • Moment
  • Romantic
  • Poetic

• Movies are romantic fantasies.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Movies
  • Romantic
  • Fantasies

• For me, it's sad to say, but I would probably have a spiritual marriage but not a legal marriage, because I think so much about marriage starts to become about finances. It has nothing to do with God or feelings or the romantic side of marriage. It's about who owns what, who gets what? So what's the point?

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • God
  • Marriage
  • Spiritual

• When young people are too rigidly sequestered from [the world], their lively and romantic imaginations paint it to them as a paradise of which they have been beguiled; but when they are shown it properly, and in due time, they see it such as it really is, equally shared by pain and pleasure, hope and disappointment.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• What I strive to do with songwriting is be really honest, authentic and try to be open and share that with people. I choose that over trying to be clever, poetic, or lyrical.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Choose
  • Strive
  • Songwriting

• At first when I realized I was a romantic, I was sort of shocked and shamed. But it is true... that the material I work most with is emotion.

  

  Albert Paley
  • Romantic
  • Emotion
  • Material