There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.
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Related My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t... DEYTH BANGER I like those stories that capture the brutality of life, but there's still some kind of melancho... KAREN ELSON I like the collarbone, a very clean collarbone. I think there's something also very delicate and... GUGU MBATHA-RAW There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me - those are some of t... MAHERSHALA ALI I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I con... LAURA VANDERVOORT It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a mela... NORAH JONES I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER I am very Latino in everything I am and I do, but there's a part of me that's also something... JIMMY SMITS I would say my career is in a very good place. I'm in a place of a lot of hope for what's ne... FORTUNE FEIMSTER Romance is quite an overblown word. This idea of chocolates and champagne and that's it. There... JOANNA LUMLEY Gay marriage is absolutely something that I am in full support of and a big advocate of, and I think... JAMIE-LYNN SIGLER There's a certain darkness to Slipknot, but at the same time, there's a very strong dose of ... COREY TAYLOR I know a lot of people love applications on their phone, but I'm like, 'Yeah, I understand t... BEN HUH The second I walk onto the set and I know that there's a camera and I know that there's a Da... VIN DIESEL I very often get that question: 'What is your real profession?' That's because in Sweden... ERLAND JOSEPHSON When my dad passed, there's a lot of sadness right below the surface, and I think there will be ... ASHLEY MONROE There is something very strange and unsettling for me about making a work that doesn't fit with ... KARA WALKER There's something safe about playing a character, but then it's like, 'Who am I undernea... EMMY ROSSUM Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not somethi... ROBERT REDFORD You just suddenly think that there's something quite childish about acting. Basically, it's ... KEVIN WHATELY It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that'... HALSEY There's something about being in front of a live audience that's fun. It's a really inte... STEVEN WRIGHT I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost.... GEORGE WILL Michael Emerson is just a prince. There's something about him. He's so sweet. I don't kn... SARAH SHAHI I love TV. I love being behind the scenes on a TV show but there's something about, I don't ... SIMON COWELL I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full o... GARY HUME When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g... GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a... GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy. F. MULDER There's nowhere like home for me, but there has been something so interesting about most of the ... BRITTANY BOWE If I put my mind to something, it happens. I do know that's not necessarily psychic. But I alway... AMY SEDARIS I can usually tell when a woman is going through a divorce because they look so gaunt and tired and ... ANDIE MACDOWELL We talk a lot about infrastructure in cities, and it's talking about highways and it's talki... KATHERINE BOO It's funny because there's a part of me that, if something is popular, I sort of become a de... AJ LEE In my race, there's 10 hurdles, but in life, there is always a hurdle. There is always something... GAIL DEVERS I think that plays are probably the most personal, because it's just me in charge, but sometimes... DAVID HENRY HWANG There's something about being rejected - when I go out without my friends, I'm reminded of h... JASON RITTER I think there's something in people where they often want to describe their personal experiences... JAMIE JOHNSON I work primarily for the camera-it's not something I really talk about a lot, but it's part ... TERENCE STAMP It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human be... ZOOEY DESCHANEL In so far as I have any beliefs, I suppose I'm like that old Peggy Lee song, 'Is That All Th... PETER ACKROYD I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. The experience... ANA GASTEYER I'm doin' something different. I mean, I talk a little bit about race and interracial dating... HANNIBAL BURESS I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful... DAVE EGGERS I think that most of my romance comes out in my music. And if you look at my track record of three e... DAVID FOSTER There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I w... HAROLD RAMIS There's something wonderful about taking a tag off a pair of socks, off a shirt, off a jacket. I... JERRY LEWIS I love playing a villain. I think that there's something freeing about that, and it's a diff... JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for com... CILLIAN MURPHY Love is agony, isn't it? I've been involved with someone for some time now, but it's all... DAPHNE GUINNESS We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, ... JOHN MALKOVICH I think people have a misconception of me, period. My life has been a whirlwind sometimes, but it... LIL' KIM I post all the time anyway. It's part of who I am. There's me IRL. There's me URL. That&... PETRA COLLINS I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do somethin... BILLY HIGGINS The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that.... BECK Fragrance is a very personal gift, and I think that's why it makes a great Christmas gift. There... RYAN REYNOLDS There's a stigma that guys hate romance and hate love, but that's not true. Look at 'Iro... CASSANDRA CLARE I feel a connection to many songs that I won't sing because I don't think they are right for... AUDRA MCDONALD I believe that rejection is a blessing because it's the universe's way of telling you that t... MICHELLE PHAN I should mention something that nobody ever thinks about, but proofreading takes a lot of time. Afte... JOHN UPDIKE It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking ... KRISTEN WIIG I always feel like out of every session that I do, whether it's a record session or even a conce... BUDDY DEFRANCO I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be. SAM SMITH The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of ... DAVID LYONS I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, ... MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL I think a good dollop of sadness is quite a useful thing in comedy sometimes. I think if everyone... OLIVIA COLMAN For a while now I've had this feeling that there's something that I'm supposed to be doi... EMMA CAULFIELD There are so many different reasons as to why I love riding trains. But I think ultimately it's ... ROSARIO DAWSON I want to know everything there is to know about a specific area. And it's winning at that maste... BEN HUH The thing about my fridge is, it's a family fridge, so there's a little of something everybo... MARTINA MCBRIDE To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That's why I don'... BRENE BROWN Talking about the body getting old, there's a sadness to it in a way. CHICK COREA There is no singer I can think of who can touch Ella Fitzgerald. And when Billie Holiday sings, she&... HOZIER I've always felt that if something is polarizing, that's usually the stuff I like the most. ... ANDY SAMBERG There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for ... TAYLOR PHINNEY With music, you're really showing someone a piece of your soul. You're saying, 'This is ... ALEXANDRA SHIPP We're often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic... ANNE LAMOTT That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writin... TOM RACHMAN Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness. DIONNE WARWICK It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been s... DAKOTA FANNING There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don&... VAN MORRISON When I read a script and have my first interaction with this character, do I feel like there's s... BILL SKARSGARD That's what I love about sketch comedy: a sketch is five minutes, then it goes dark, and there... JASON SUDEIKIS If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. DEYTH BANGER I think it's part of the responsibility of an artist to shock, to upset, to make people think di... BILL PLYMPTON I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it. LAURIE ANDERSON What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's ... BJORK I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family ... MIKE MILLS Someone gives jewelry, and there's a bit of romance. If you buy it from a store, the store is tr... WARIS AHLUWALIA There is something magical about that green coat. I mean that sincerely. It's a very special wee... FUZZY ZOELLER My father always said, 'Do your best and piss on the rest.' And I think there's a lot of... KADEE STRICKLAND There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something ... CHRIS CORNELL I'm just so lucky - my office is a racetrack. That is something I'm very thankful for. It... CHANTAL SUTHERLAND I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into ... CARRIE FISHER I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there... RACHEL KELLER I have my father's lopsided mouth. When I smile, my lips slope to one side. My doctor sister cal... CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE Moving out to L.A. for me was a leap of faith. I was very secure in my dinner theater world; I loved... AMY ADAMS I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. ... JEREMY RENNER There's a lot of down time on the road. That part of it I really don't enjoy. There's no... DAVE LOMBARDO Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant. AARON ECKHART
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Cares not for service, or but serves when prest,
Stays til... ALEXANDER POPE Say first, of God above or man below,
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The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul. ALEXANDER POPE He best can paint them who shall feel them most. ALEXANDER POPE Wretches hang that jurymen may dine. ALEXANDER POPE If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a midd... ALEXANDER POPE But if
We have such another victory, we are undone. ALEXANDER POPE The heart resolves this matter in a trice,
"Men only feel the smart, but not the vice." ALEXANDER POPE Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast;
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Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and ... ALEXANDER POPE Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace;
If not, by any means get wealth and place. ALEXANDER POPE One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit. ALEXANDER POPE When I was training, I trained with my younger brother Brady. I would wrestle some of my friends, wh... JAIMIE ALEXANDER Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon
the rights of others. ALEXANDER POPE