Line #96 Quotes/ManicPixieDreamGirl


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4	->[[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.
5	-->-- '''Rugi''' and '''Gwena''', ''[[http://www.sugarquill.net/read.php?storyid=656&chapno=20 Tough Guide to Harry Potter]]''
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7	->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.\
8	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.\
9	He wished he could spend the rest of his life with Noire.
10	-->-- ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/28640439/chapters/72975240#workskin sharks and sugar]]'', a ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' fic
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14	->''"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."''
15	-->-- '''David Huxley''', ''Film/BringingUpBaby''
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17	->''"[[LampshadeHanging 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 [[DeconstructedCharacterArchetype I'm just a fucked-up girl who is looking for my own peace of mind]]. Don't assign me yours."''
18	-->-- '''Clementine Kruczynski''', ''Film/EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind''
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20	-> ''"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."''
21	-->-- '''James''', ''Film/SlidingDoors''
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25	->"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."\
26	And she kept Lije Baley from sinking down.
27	-->-- ''Literature/TheCavesOfSteel''
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31	->''"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."''
32	-->-- '''Annie''', regarding '''Kat''', ''Series/{{Community}}''
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36	->''"She'll make you take your clothes off and go dancing in the rain!\
37	She'll make you live her crazy life\
38	but she'll take away your pain,\
39	like a bullet to your brain! (Come on!)"''
40	-->-- '''Music/RickyMartin''', "Livin' La Vida Loca"
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42	->''She ain't got no money\
43	Her clothes are kinda funny\
44	Her hair is kinda wild and free\
45	Oh, but Love grows where my Rosemary goes\
46	And nobody knows like me\
47	She talks kinda lazy\
48	And people say she she's crazy\
49	And her life's a mystery\
50	Oh, but Love grows where my Rosemary goes\
51	And nobody knows like me''
52	-->-- '''Edison Lighthouse''', "Love Grows"
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54	->''Hey street boy, what's your style?\
55	Your dead-end dreams don't make you smile\
56	I'll give ya somethin' to live for''\
57	Have ya and grab ya, 'til you're sore!
58	-->-- '''Music/TheRunaways''', "Cherry Bomb"
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60	->''She runs through the night\
61	As if nobody cares\
62	She screams and she cries\
63	And ignores all the stares\
64	She wants me to come\
65	But I'm never going there''
66	-->-- '''Music/GuidedByVoices''', "Gold Heart Mountaintop Queen Directory"
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68	->''Like a shooting star he shines.\
69	He said, "Take my hand,\
70	"Live while you can\
71	"Don't you see your dreams lie right in the palm of your hand?"''
72	-->-- '''Music/VanessaCarlton''', "Ordinary Day"
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74	->''Oh boy, do you ever get bored\
75	Getting all you want and more\
76	What you need is someone like you\
77	Who's gonna blow your pretty world in two\
78	I watch you play around\
79	But that don't bother me\
80	'm not in a rush cos\
81	I can see\
82	That a boy like you\
83	Needs a crazy girl like me.''
84	-->-- '''Music/SClub7''', "Boy Like You"
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86	->''Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river\
87	You can hear the boats go by\
88	You can spend the night beside her\
89	And you know that she's half crazy\
90	But that's why you want to be there\
91	And she feeds you tea and oranges\
92	That come all the way from China\
93	And just when you mean to tell her\
94	That you have no love to give her\
95	Then she gets you on her wavelength\
96	And she lets the river answer\
97	That you've always been her lover\
98	And you want to travel with her\
99	And you want to travel blind\
100	And you know that she will trust you\
101	For you've touched her perfect body with your mind.''
102	-->-- '''Music/LeonardCohen''', "Suzanne" - ''Music/SongsOfLeonardCohen''
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104	->''Beware of young girls who come to the door\
105	Wistful and pale, of twenty-and-four\
106	Delivering daisies with delicate hands...\
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108	Beware of young girls, too often they crave\
109	To cry at a wedding or dance on a grave...''
110	-->-- '''Dory Previn''', "Beware of Young Girls"
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112	->''Once upon a time there was a girl\
113	You wouldn't really call her typical\
114	Had her own definition of cool\
115	She lived in her own world\
116	She had her own style, her own rules\
117	She played along like it was usual\
118	Nobody really even knew her name\
119	To her life was one big game''
120	-->-- '''Music/SkyeSweetnam''', "Sharada"
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124	->''"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--"''
125	-->-- '''Dr. Kitchell''', not the only man in ''Theatre/BellsAreRinging'' to whom Ella Peterson happened
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129	->'''Sketchbook:''' I use my hair to express myself.\
130	'''Red Guy:''' That sounds really boring.\
131	'''Sketchbook:''' ''[annoyed]'' ''I use my hair to express myself.''
132	-->-- ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared''[[note]]Red Guy's quote gets an IronicEcho later on when he himself tries to be quirky like a manic pixie[[/note]]
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134	->'''Archer:''' [[ConversationalTroping Ever heard of a]] ManicPixieDreamGirl?\
135	'''Kuzuki:''' You can't be saying that Medea is a--\
136	'''Archer:''' '''[[GenderInvertedTrope 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.
137	-->-- ''WebVideo/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorksAbridged''
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141	->'''Steve:''' I just realized, I don't know your name.\
142	'''[[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.\
143	'''Steve:''' ... I'm Steve. I'm the kind of guy who drives cross country to take his friend to his old man's funeral, then gives it all up when he finds his Manic Pixie Dream Girl along the way.\
144	'''Girl:''' ... Wait a minute, you blew off your grieving friend to hang out in a hot tub with a complete stranger?
145	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', "[[Recap/AmericanDadS10E6IndependentMovie Independent Movie]]"
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149	->She tap-dances. She lies, puckishly. She emcees somber hamster funerals. She introduces strangers to her blankie. She figure-skates in a crushed-velvet alligator costume. She wears an epilepsy helmet just long enough to facilitate a wise and bittersweet moment and then never wears it again. She walks over to her record player and opens the lid but doesn't put a record on just to make VERY SURE you know she has one.
150	-->-- '''[[http://jezebel.com/i-re-watched-garden-state-and-will-never-feel-again-1621698232 Lindy West]]''' on ''Film/GardenState''
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152	->As always, the Emmys were a snore-filled snooze fest last night, but luckily there was a brightly shining stoned star who guided us safely through that never-ending mess. The second [[Creator/SarahSilverman Sarah "Human Cloud of Weed Smoke" Silverman]] arrived, I knew everything was going to be alright.
153	-->-- '''[[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"
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155	->Perhaps Carter felt that Reyes was coming across as a little too spaced out but the ''"I feel energies"'' angle was dropped when she became a regular. A shame, because I rather like the idea of somebody a little kooky working in the X-Files office. I don’t really buy the criticism that Reyes is a forced eccentric, a character constructed out of idiosyncratic ticks and quirks…at least until she started to imitate whale song. At that point I thought she might have gone insane.
156	-->-- '''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/the-x-files-season-eight.html Joe Ford]]''' on ''Series/TheXFiles'', "[[Recap/TheXFilesS08E21Existence Existence]]"
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158	->Loved too much to ever be hurt, knowing she can get away with anything, well aware of our gaze, Jo smiles and goes about her business. The Doctor grasps her hand, stares adoringly at his companion, and they run off from whatever monster is chasing them this week, she having the time of her life, he deludedly thinking he's actually in charge here and that he exists for something other than her pleasure.
159	-->-- '''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2011/08/pop-between-realities-home-in-time-for_22.html Dr. El Sandifer]]''' on [[Series/DoctorWho Jo Grant]]
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161	->Lois likes something weird! That’s ''kind'' of like characterization, right?
162	-->-- '''Chris Sims''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/recap-smallville-episode-10-19-dominion/ on]] ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', "[[Recap/SmallvilleS10E19Dominion Dominion]]"
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164	->We should really be shaming the men who put the MPDG on a pedestal to avoid having to really love her for who she is.
165	-->-- '''Akilah Hughes''', ''[[http://hellogiggles.com/being-a-manic-pixie-dream-girl-is-not-a-bad-thing/ Being A Manic Pixie Dream Girl is Not A Bad Thing]]''
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