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He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost.
William Shakespeare
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Look, if you're playing Romeo and your Juliet is a pig, you find something you can love about pigs!
Montgomery Clift
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Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.'
Helen Fisher
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Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
William Shakespeare
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The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite: Therefore love moderately— long love doth so.
William Shakespeare
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What did Romeo and Juliet do?” They died,” I remind her gently. “Some mix-up with the poison-
Gordon Korman
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Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.
William Shakespeare
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Juliet had it easy; she never had to kill Romeo.
Richelle Mead
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I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn.
Ian Shoales
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Sometimes the parallels that are brought in can make the play seem less relevant; you can deny a play's application to the universal by making it too specific. Sometimes having a modern context does make things easier to grasp; sometimes, you go, "Why have they got swords?" "Why didn't Juliet just text Romeo? Why did she bother posting a letter? Why was the Milan post service so bad?" It throws up irrelevant questions that don't help.
Gregory Doran
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Benvolio- "By my head, here come the Capulets." Mercutio- "By my heel, I care not.
William Shakespeare
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Not proud you have, but thankful that you have. Proud can I never be of what I hate, but thankful even for hate that is meant love.
William Shakespeare
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Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.
William Shakespeare
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I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.
Sally Field
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Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use,
Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse.
William Shakespeare
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What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?
Brendan Fraser
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How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath To say to me that thou art out of breath?
William Shakespeare
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It was my life, playing Juliet. From that moment on I was convinced I was going to be an actress. That was all I really wanted to do.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
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I thought Leonardo DiCaprio was amazing in Baz Luhrmanns Romeo and Juliet.
Brenton Thwaites
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It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.
Tracy Keenan Wynn
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I think this [Gnomeo & Juliet] is the closest I ought to get to Shakespeare to be honest.
Matt Lucas
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Juliet shook her head. The thought of eating anything made her feel nauseous. "No thanks, I'm not hungry." "Oh yeah, the heartbreak diet," nodded Trudy sagely. "Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt.
Alexandra Potter
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Jesus, woman!" he snapped. "When did we have to become Romeo and Juliet?
Anne Stuart
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The story of the movie [Romeo + Juliet] is timeless. It's relevant then.
Quindon Tarver
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Romeo and Juliet *died*. I always liked that in a teen romance story.
James Nicoll
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We want to do for 'Hamlet' what Baz Luhrmann did for 'Romeo and Juliet' in terms of like a really cool kind of re-imagining.
Emile Hirsch
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When I was 10, my school did Romeo and Juliet. I was Juliet, and that was, like, the biggest deal ever. I was completely obsessed with the role.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
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Baz Luhrrman's movie Romeo and Juliet is what made me decide that I wanted to dedicate my life to making films one way or another.
Kelly Blatz
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Ophelia was bonkers, right? And Juliet was what, a sixth-grader?
Rainbow Rowell