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Quotes About Romanticize

I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.
~ Alexander McQueen
Richard had taken the Bimbo off his visiting list and had told Doreen that if he was moved to East block he would marry her. Since the first time she'd seen Richard on TV being taken away from the angry mob on Hubbard Street, she had wanted to marry him, to fight his battles, to be known as Mrs. Richard Ramirez.
~ Philip Carlo
And meanwhile everybody's wondering what this old woman with half her face drooping onto her shoulder is doing bagging their groceries. You have no idea how I envy you your cubicle. The invisibility of it. Let's not romanticize the cubicle, Pip said. This is the terrible thing about bodies. They're so visible, so visible.
~ Jonathan Franzen
My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize laziness, and people identify with that.
~ Jim Gaffigan
We may romanticize the past, but up until fairly recently most of humanity lived extremely fragile lives in which one all-too-common misfortune could spell disaster.
~ Ray Kurzweil
I dearly believe in my heart that Goldberg is a family man who has a profound love for his wife and son and wants his family to see him as that superhero that people romanticize him being during the height of his fame.
~ Paul Heyman
Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
It is easy to romanticise, say, tigers or lions and cats. We admire their magnificent beauty, strength and agility. But we would regard their notional human counterparts as wanton psychopaths of the worst kind.
~ David Pearce
I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.
~ Allen Ginsberg
Without taking anything away from their important contributions across the globe, U.S. elites often seem to have more compassion for the world's poor than America's poor, perhaps because the former are easier to romanticize.
~ Amy Chua
When you're watching a documentary, the danger is to romanticize.
~ Ridley Scott
The ego romanticizes the past to avoid the true romance of the present.
~ Alan Cohen
I romanticise every moment of my life, and that is why I have fallen in love with life.
~ Mahira Khan
You're more inclined to be cynical about your own country, and you romanticize it from the outside. And why not? It's much more interesting than thinking, 'Oh, everyone's struggling and normal.'
~ Claire Foy
I don't do anything with my life except romanticise and decay with indecision
~ Allen Ginsberg
I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision. —  Allen Ginsberg, The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems: 1937-1952 . (Da Capo Press; 1st Da Capo Press Ed edition November 1, 2006)
~ Allen Ginsberg
Aunt Grace had once told me that we can romanticize the unknown far too easily. It is much harder but more satisfying to assign wonder to what we were familiar with.
~ M.J. Rose
To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.
~ Aziz Ansari
I always tell people I romanticize about doing something simple, like doing radio in northern California.
~ Craig Kilborn
A lot of people glorify and romanticize the idea of being an early bloomer: finding success very early and being a child star. But it can also be quite dangerous.
~ Tavi Gevinson
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.
~ Eugene Kennedy
People romanticize, I think, this notion of life. But life at all costs is not life, it's ego-extension.
~ Emily Susan Rapp
you are my Lady of Shalott lost in a dream of isolation - I care too much for you - I romanticize depression...
~ John Geddes