History Quotes / ManicPixieDreamGirl

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->''"She'll make you take your clothes off and go dancing in the rain!''\\
''She'll make you live her crazy life''\\
''but she'll take away your pain,''\\
''like a bullet to your brain! (Come on!)"''
-->--'''Music/RickyMartin''', "Livin' La Vida Loca"

-->--'''Edison Lighthouse''', "Love Grows"

->''Hey street boy, what's your style?''\\
''Your dead-end dreams don't make you smile''\\
''I'll give ya somethin' to live for''\\

->''She runs through the night''\\
''As if nobody cares''\\
''She screams and she cries''\\
''And ignores all the stares''\\
''She wants me to come''\\
''But I'm never going there''
-->--'''Music/GuidedByVoices''', "Gold Heart Mountaintop Queen Directory"

-->--'''Music/VanessaCarlton''', "Ordinary Day"

-->--'''S Club 7''', "Boy Like You"

->''Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river''\\
''You can hear the boats go by''\\
''You can spend the night beside her''\\
''And you know that she's half crazy''\\
''But that's why you want to be there''\\
''And she feeds you tea and oranges''\\
''That come all the way from China''\\
''And just when you mean to tell her''\\
''That you have no love to give her''\\
''Then she gets you on her wavelength''\\
''And she lets the river answer''\\
''That you've always been her lover''\\
''And you want to travel with her''\\
''And you want to travel blind''\\
''And you know that she will trust you''\\
''For you've touched her perfect body with your mind.''
-->--'''Music/LeonardCohen''', "Suzanne" - ''Music/SongsOfLeonardCohen''

-->--'''Dory Previn''', "Beware Of Young Girls"

-> "Now, it isn't that I don't like you, [[TropeCodifier Susan]], because, after all, in moments of quiet I'm strangely drawn to you, but - well, there haven't ''been'' any quiet moments."
--> ''Film/BringingUpBaby''

->''[[{{Lampshading}} I'm not a concept.]] Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to make them alive, but I'm just a [[{{Deconstruction}} fucked up girl who is looking for my own peace of mind]]. Don't assign me yours.''
-->--'''Clementine Kruczynski''', ''Film/EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind''

->"Oh, goodness," she said, "what if you do look like an awful lemon? I know you're not really, and I guess if you were always grinning away like I do, we'd just explode when we got together. You stay the way you are, Lije, and keep me from floating away."\\\
And she kept Lije Baley from sinking down.
-->-- ''Literature/TheCavesOfSteel''

->''"I was feeling lower than low--hopeless--and suddenly a miracle happened... This girl--she wasn't in the office more than a coupla minutes--tipped me off on this job--and I got it. She was a blonde, pretty, about five-foot-six, big brown eyes--"''

->[[Literature/HarryPotter SEVERUS]] MEETS [[RelationshipSue PERKY]]: Diametrically opposite to [A Woman With A Dark Past], this tour matches everyone’s favorite taciturn Potions Master with a woman so ebullient that tourists may fear that the two will combust when they come in contact. Perky is "short" and "unconventional". She wears robes of eye-jarring shades of pink, yellow, blue, green, or all of them together. Her hair is a "nest of curls" and her face jovial. She wants to share her general state of happiness with the world and, since Perky is woman who "likes a challenge", her most concerted efforts will be directed at the one man in Hogwarts who could be described as unhappiness personified. Severus, in his turn, will be disconcerted by her attempts to break through his "uncommunicative façade", but also unwillingly charmed by her high-spirited tomfoolery. She "brings a breath of fresh air" into his dismal life. We don’t really know what Perky gets from the exchange.
-->-- '''Rugi''' and '''Gwena''', ''[[http://www.sugarquill.net/read.php?storyid=656&chapno=20 Tough Guide to Harry Potter]]''

'''[[Creator/ZooeyDeschanel Girl]]:''' I could tell you my name, but would my name tell you that I'm incapable of seeing the color orange? ''(takes out an orange)'' I just have to trust people who give me these. Or that I think moustaches are T-shirts for lips? Or that I wear ice skates to weddings? It's hard to dance. But that's just the type of person I am.\\

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' ("[[Recap/AmericanDadS10E6IndependentMovie Independent Movie]]")

->''"She's like one of those quirky girls from the movies. I saw her in the cafeteria trying to pay for lunch with a song."''
-->-- '''Annie''', ''Series/{{Community}}'', regarding '''Kat'''

-> ''"Helen, listen... Sometimes we are plonked into people's lives when they just need to be cheered up and reassured, and it turns out that for some reason it's your job. We don't know why. In your case it's [[NiceGuy my]] job."''
-->-- '''James''', ''Film/SlidingDoors''

->'''Sketchbook''': I use my hair to express myself.
->'''Red Guy''': That sounds really boring.
->'''Sketchbook''': (annoyed) ''I use my hair to express myself.''
-->-- ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared.'' Red Guy's quote gets an IronicEcho later on when he himself tries to be quirky like a manic pixie.

->''Once upon a time there was a girl''\\
''You wouldn't really call her typical''\\
''Had her own definition of cool''\\
''She lived in her own world''\\
''She had her own style, her own rules''\\
''She played along like it was usual''\\
''Nobody really even knew her name''\\
''To her life was one big game''
-->--'''Skye Sweetnam''', "Sharada"

->'''Archer:''' [[ConversationalTroping Ever heard of a]] ManicPixieDreamGirl?\\
'''Kuzuki:''' You can't be saying that Medea is a -\\
'''Archer:''' '''[[GenderInverted You]]''' are a ManicPixieDreamGirl! Medea unknowingly needs you to push her pursuit of her own happiness, and in doing so, you enable her to not graduate beyond her own immaturity and biases. You abandoned your own pursuit of happiness so she could be happy. You may not be manic, you may not be a pixie, you may not be a girl, but you, Souichirou Kuzuki, are a ManicPixieDreamGirl in a suit and dress shoes.
-->-- ''WebVideo/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorksAbridged''

->He ''enjoyed'' the crying matches they got into when they watched Franchise/SailorMoon over and over again. He loved all of it, everything and anything-- how she came into his life and sucked him up into a tornado with her thoughts, and spat him back out only when it was time to leave, leaving him dazed and confused and happy and joyful.\\
Noire was inquisitive, and kept him on his toes with her whirlwind of a mind, and he was so grateful that he could keep up with it. He wished he could do it every day for the rest of his life.\\
He wished he could spend the rest of his life with Noire.
-->-- ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/28640439/chapters/72975240#workskin sharks and sugar]]'', a ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' fic

-->--'''[[http://jezebel.com/i-re-watched-garden-state-and-will-never-feel-again-1621698232 Lindy West]]''' on ''Film/GardenState''

-->--'''[[http://dlisted.com/2014/08/26/sarah-silverman-was-probably-read-definitely-high-as-hell-at-the-emmys/ Michael K.]]''', "Sarah Silverman Was Probably (Read: Definitely) High As Hell At The Emmys"

-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/the-x-files-season-eight.html Joe Ford]]''' on ''Series/TheXFiles'', "Existence"

-->--'''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2011/08/pop-between-realities-home-in-time-for_22.html Dr. El Sandifer]]''' on [[Series/DoctorWho Jo Grant]]

-->--'''Chris Sims''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/recap-smallville-episode-10-19-dominion/ on]] ''{{Series/Smallville}}'' ("Dominion")

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' ("Independent Movie")

'''Kuzuki:''' You can't be saying that Madea is a -\\
'''Archer:''' '''[[GenderInverted You]]''' are a ManicPixieDreamGirl! Madea unknowingly needs you to push her pursuit of her own happiness, and in doing so, you enable her to not graduate beyond her own immaturity and biases. You abandoned your own pursuit of happiness so she could be happy. You may not be manic, you may not be a pixie, you may not be a girl, but you, Souichirou Kuzuki, are a ManicPixieDreamGirl in a suit and dress shoes.

->Listen to me, Creator/{{E|lectronicArts}}A: not every introvert is longing for the day that Zooey Fucking Deschanel kicks their door down and forcibly drags them to a roller rink!!
-->--'''''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''''' on ''VideoGame/SimCity''

-->--'''Skye Sweetname''', "Sharada"

''Once upon a time there was a girl''\\

''To her life was one big game''\\

->That was something that was calculated, you know what I mean? That was our marketing department at Fox and they did a really good job with our first season, but that’s a word that describes the character that I play, not me. I don’t personally have identification with that word myself.
-->--'''Creator/ZooeyDeschanel''' on playing "adorkable" characters

->The MPDB is a corrupted pantomime dame of the true wizard of ad-libbed wonder, Creator/BillMurray, who achieves everything these hoary, cheap archetypes are aiming for -- in pure Venkman style -- [[PretenderDiss without even trying.]]
-->--'''Stuart Millard''', ''Smoke and Mirrors & Steven Seagal''

-->--'''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2011/08/pop-between-realities-home-in-time-for_22.html Dr. El Sandifer]]'''

-->--'''Creator/IsaacAsimov''', ''Literature/TheCavesOfSteel''

->I was feeling lower than low--hopeless-and suddenly a miracle happened... This girl--she wasn't in the office more than a coupla minutes--tipped me off on this job--and I got it. She was a blonde, pretty, about five-foot-six, big brown eyes--