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It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy. -- Franz Liszt
Besides, I'm a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around. -- Reba McEntire
I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them. -- Delta Goodrem
I'll always stand by my Gypsy roots, and I'll always help out one of my own. -- Cher Lloyd
I had a gypsy upbringing, so I moved around all over the place and can't remember a street I grew up on. -- Vanessa Hudgens
Naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk... It's as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes 'Jew' and 'Gypsy.' -- Noam Chomsky
In the oldest chronicles of the times conserved in Hungary, reports will be found of Gypsy music, but never of any other, either Magyar, Slavic or Jewish. -- Franz Liszt
As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation. -- Franz Liszt
We still name our military helicopter gunships after victims of genocide. Nobody bats an eyelash about that: Blackhawk. Apache. And Comanche. If the Luftwaffe named its military helicopters Jew and Gypsy, I suppose people would notice. -- Noam Chomsky
I've always seen myself as one of those 'show people.' My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people. -- Brittany Murphy
I come from a strong matriarchal line. I was raised by Gypsy, her sister, Mary, and my maternal grandmother. The result of not having my father live with us meant that, when it came to understanding the opposite sex, it was like working without a map. -- Cherie Lunghi
But I was always a bit of a gypsy, anyway. I spent five years at Oklahoma State, five years at Miami and moved on after winning the national championship, and five years with the Cowboys. So, I was ready to move on. We won back-to-back Super Bowls, and I felt that I accomplished what I wanted to accomplish. -- Jimmy Johnson
I'm from a Gypsy background! -- Cher
The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation. -- Stephen Sondheim
Say what you will about Gypsy women, but they are remarkable assessors of blues guitar talent. -- Gary Gulman
The flamenco of the Gypsy has nothing to do with the flamenco for tourists. Real flamenco is like sex. -- Klaus Kinski
Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar. -- Joel Hodgson
There are two types of people in this world: Gypsy and Gadge. Which one am I? Neither. I'm a writer. -- Allison Mackie
When I tried to do something else, everyone behaved as if I was Gypsy Rose Lee trying to paint a Matisse. -- Zoë Heller
When I tried to do something else, everyone behaved as if I was Gypsy Rose Lee trying to paint a Matisse. -- Zoë Heller
It'll be okay, I promise. No matter what I see or feel. You'll still be Logan and I'll still be your Gypsy girl. -- Jennifer Estep
I played the Piccadilly Theater with "Gypsy" and also the Old Vic, and I've done other shows in London, but not for 40 years. -- Angela Lansbury
I'm very much into the Gypsy Kings. It's rumba and very festive, very passionate music, rhythmic guitar, passionate singing about love from happy people. -- Sofia Milos
The white moth to the closing vine, The bee to the open clover, And the Gypsy blood to the Gypsy blood Ever the wide world over. -- Rudyard Kipling
I think Gypsy [Rose Lee] would be appalled at today's rawer, more blatant displays of the female form. She was, in her own way, a prude. -- Karen Abbott
Come on, Gypsy girl. I'm bleeding to death here, in case you haven't noticed. At least make it worth my while and kiss me before I die. -- Jennifer Estep
Gypsy [Rose Lee ] was a masterful storyteller, and her memoir and by extension, the musical weren't only Gypsy's monument; they were also her chance for monumental revisionism. -- Karen Abbott
One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more. -- Hedy Lamarr
Let me make sure I have this straight. The cavalry just now rode into town and it's a Czech Gypsy porn-star zombie killer. Have I got that right? -- Richard Kadrey
In Gypsy [Rose Lee] the musical, her mother, 'Mama Rose', is portrayed as a slightly eccentric, pushy, ambitious stage mother, but that version doesn't come close to the truth. -- Karen Abbott
Gypsy [Rose Lee] wasn't a linear person, and she didn't live life in a linear fashion. She was relentlessly self-inventing, and moved backward as often as she moved forward. -- Karen Abbott
In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms. -- Felix Marti-Ibanez
I don't consider 'American Rose' to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-century America, told through Gypsy's tumultuous life - it's 'Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.' -- Karen Abbott
A half-century before Madonna, Gypsy [Rose Lee] understood how to make performance out of desire, how to exploit the very human and eternal instinct to always want most what we'll never have. -- Karen Abbott
A few years ago, I found out that there's a lot of Gypsy blood on my mother's side. I'm wild in that way - I've been brought up to do my own thing. -- FKA twigs
I came upon a telegram from Eleanor Roosevelt herself to Gypsy Rose Lee that read, 'May your bare ass always be shining'. That was the clincher; I had to write about this woman. -- Karen Abbott
Gypsy [Rose Lee] is as unique as she is timeless. Her story is classic Americana, and the strangest rags-to-riches saga you'll ever read; I like to call it Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton. -- Karen Abbott
I greatly admired Gypsy [Rose Lee] for being able to rise above her circumstances; I was terrified of her; I thought she was generous; I thought she was brilliant; I thought she was cruel. -- Karen Abbott
Jasmine smirke at the weapon in my hand. "That little toothpick won't save you, Gypsy." "Touthpick?" Vic muttered in an indignant voice. "Did she just call me a bleeding toothpick? Kill her! Kill her now! -- Jennifer Estep
She [Gypsy Rose Lee] was a sophisticated self-satirist with a contagious delight in the comedy of sex. She was coy; she was sly; she always had a witty quip; she had an intensely dramatic presence. -- Karen Abbott
One of the biggest questions to me was whether or not Gypsy the person was capable of loving anyone or anything beyond Gypsy Rose Lee the creation, and even that was a conflicted, tortured relationship. -- Karen Abbott
My favorite song as a boy was definitely 'Downtown' recorded by Petula Clark. I still love it! And the original cast recording of 'Gypsy'; I played my mother's cast recordings until there was no vinyl left. -- Bryan Batt
Le Petit is where I cut my teeth with some of my early roles. In 1982, I was in the chorus of 'Gypsy' and soon after I had my first lead as Jamie Lockhart in 'The Robber Bridegroom.' -- Bryan Batt
You won't hurt me. I know you won't." Logan said. "How can you be so sure?" I whispered. "Because you're that Gypsy girl, and I'm the bad-boy Spartan. And I think it's time we were finally together, don't you? -- Jennifer Estep
Burlesque thrived during the Great Depression, and by extension, so, too, did Gypsy [Rose Lee]. Men could no longer afford to pay $5.50 to see a show on Broadway, but they could scrape together $1.00 for a matinee at a burlesque house. -- Karen Abbott
I always have scarves handy; they're my indulgence. I buy them at an L.A. shop called Lost & Found. I'll spray one with loads of my Byredo Gypsy Water perfume, put it on and be like, 'Ah, this feels good.' -- Lena Headey
I felt differently about her [Gypsy Rose Lee] during every phase of the research and writing process. Often, I felt incredibly sorry for her; she had an extremely difficult childhood and a complicated 'to say the least' relationship with her family, her mother especially. -- Karen Abbott
If Lady Gaga and Dorothy Parker had a secret love child, it would've been Gypsy Rose Lee. Gypsy arrived for opening nights at the Met wearing a full-length cape made entirely of orchids, while Lady Gaga shows up wearing a full-length cloak made of meat. -- Karen Abbott
The Gypsy Heart tour is a dream come true. Not only because of all the beautiful cities I will get to visit, but all of the beautiful people I will get to meet. Gypsy Heart is not just a tour for me, but a mission to spread love. -- Miley Cyrus
I'm a wandering gypsy. -- Lady Gaga
I like the gypsy aspect of this business. -- Jimmy Smits
I guess I haven't gotten over being lost, a wandering gypsy. -- Neil Diamond
Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth. -- Robert Henri
I love being a gypsy. Home is between New York and California. -- Erin Wasson
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I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money. -- Jessica Brown Findlay
I'm sort of a gypsy at heart and don't like to stay in one place too long. -- Ming-Na Wen
A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money. -- Dolly Parton
The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies. -- Franz Liszt
In the first few seconds an aching sadness wrenched his heart, but it soon gave way to a feeling of sweet disquiet, the excitement of gypsy wanderlust -- Mikhail Bulgakov
I can only go places because I know that I can go away from them, if that makes sense. I like the gypsy lifestyle that filming affords. -- Rupert Friend
I'm a little bit of a gypsy myself. I've always had jobs where I'm moving around and I'm not sure what's going to happen tomorrow or the next day. -- Niall Matter
I am a gypsy. I havent' had a home for a long time. Call me a homeless person - I just throw everything in a bag and I'm good to go. -- Taylor Kinney
sure, we need the gypsies. we always have. because if you don't have someone to run out of town once in a while, how are you going to know you yourself belong there? -- Stephen King
I move around a lot. Ive lived in a ton of different places - and only for a month or two at a time. I have a deep, rabid curiosity, so I like having a gypsy life. -- Hilarie Burton
I move around a lot. I've lived in a ton of different places - and only for a month or two at a time. I have a deep, rabid curiosity, so I like having a gypsy life. -- Hilarie Burton
Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town. -- Hugh Laurie
The gypsy in my soul is living on the road again, ... When I first started my career, I was on the road for about five or six years straight, not living anywhere. Thirty-three years later, I`ve come full circle. -- Maureen McGovern
Luckily, I was raised by a kind of gypsy family, which is why I always get along better with people who worked in circuses than with kids of other actors. My mom was so carefree with us in a beautiful way. We were used to sleeping anywhere. -- Lou Doillon
I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over. -- John Masefield
There's times I've been quite nervous doing session work, such as when I'm asked to play the violin in a 'country and western' style or a 'gypsy' style. I'm not very good at that sort of playing at all. I think it's important as a session musician to have your own voice. -- Ric Sanders
I still have a Gypsy sense of adventure. I don't think I have slept in the same bed for more than three or four months my whole life. I am always planting vegetables that I never get to eat and flowers that I never see flower. I have always moved around the world. -- Helen Mirren
It doesn't occur to me at this moment to say more; another time, perhaps tomorrow, I may have more to say, but always the same thing and about the same, for only gypsies, robber gangs and swindlers follow the adage that where a person has once been he is never to go again. -- Soren Kierkegaard
I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella, in my tiny cell in boarding school, and whole worlds of possibility opened out that I had never guessed existed. The language was on fire and sang of liberation. -- Pico Iyer
Noomi [Rapace] felt fresh. And she's passionate and ambitious in all the right ways. She's a tour de force. Every time I was trying to have a discussion with the actors, she'd be pulling out a blade out from underneath her gypsy skirt and menace someone saying, "Maybe I should slit your throat." -- Kam Williams
I prefer 100 per cent cotton Ts. They are kinder to lumps and bumps than figure-hugging stretchy Lycra ones and feel nicer against the skin. Extra-long-sleeved T-shirts are a lifesaver for me. I wear them either underneath a shirt with the sleeve pulled out of the cuff, or underneath gypsy tops, tunic tops and waistcoats. -- Twiggy
I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true. -- Sam Raimi
There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest. -- Robert W. Service
I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or just been one. I certainly liked entertaining people and making jokes, but I don't know necessarily if that's what your child is prone to that you should necessarily put them in a real working industry at six years old. -- Natasha Lyonne
I'm an air-conditioned gypsy. -- Pete Townshend
My center is the soul of a gypsy. -- Nathan Parsons
The motorcycle black madonna Two wheeled gypsy queen. -- Bob Dylan
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I was a gypsy, living a carefree life of ponies and tennis. -- Lilly Pulitzer
This week, I'm a gypsy. Maybe next week it'll be glitter rock. -- Jimmy Page
Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged. -- Douglas William Jerrold
Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy's spell? A mystery? -- Mary Chapin Carpenter
The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches. -- Jean Cocteau
On tour I'm finding out that I am half gypsy, 40% vagabond, and 10 house cat. -- Jason Reeves
Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age. -- Albert Einstein
I'm God's messenger from the gypsy tent. And it's the message that's important, not the messenger. -- Rodney "Gipsy" Smith
I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother. -- Natalia Makarova
As a model, you're such a gypsy, so that 'home' element is kind of taken from you. -- Erin Heatherton
Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day? -- Ralph Hodgson
I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets. -- Roman Payne
I think maybe because I moved a lot in my childhood, I'm a little bit of a gypsy by nature. -- Carla Gugino
I understand travel. I understand the experience of travel. I mean there is something of the "air-conditioned gypsy" in me. -- Greg Lake
Live a little be a gypsy, get around. Get your feet up off the ground, live a little, get around. -- Paul McCartney
I'm kind of a gypsy, so I love living out of a suitcase and going from place to place meeting people. -- Jana Kramer
It's quite nice to have a place to leave things. You can be a permanent gypsy, but it's nice to go home. -- Daphne Guinness
Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
And I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old And magnificently we will fold into the mystic -- Van Morrison
During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials. -- Jennifer Stone
If there's one thing I've learned in this life, it's that you never say no to an old gypsy woman with a blind eye and leprous fingernails. -- Roger Ebert
I grew up in a crazy, gypsy-like household of actors, dancers and loony Broadway people. It was their way of life, and I didn't know anything else. -- James Badge Dale
My father's family can be traced back to 1400. I've been told by gypsies that there is unmistakeably gypsy blood in me. Lee is a gypsy name, you know. -- Christopher Lee
It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature. -- Carla Gugino
As a model, it's a gypsy kind of life: living in hotels, working all the time, ordering room service instead of cooking for yourself. There's absolutely no nest-building. -- Eva Herzigova
I love being a gypsy and getting on the bus with the band making sounds for the people who love and enjoy a night of Americana and good times. -- Shelby Lynne
I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,--in the genial Summertime. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A gypsy fire is on the hearth, Sign of the carnival of mirth; Through the dun fields and from the glade Flash merry folk in masquerade, For this is Hallowe'en! -- Jerry Smith
I'm living in Los Angeles for a couple of years. I've been a gypsy for quite a while. It'll come to an end. I'm going to come back to New York. -- Garry Winogrand
I would totally lose myself in the music and be a gypsy. I would go wherever I wanted to in my head - wherever the music took me. My body followed. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I have a little gypsy palace here in New York. It's all mirrors, and I have my own garden. It's so secluded - the closest thing to a caravan I could find! -- Neon Hitch
I think America is amazing for its landscape and its history. California is beautiful, New York is beautiful, but when you're a gypsy at heart, it probably suits you to be traveling. -- Lana Del Rey
I have always considered myself a person with a gypsy heart, and I Surrender my dreams to my soul, for it's a free sprit who believes in no boundaries of region and religion. -- Megha Khare
FREEDLEY: Will I feel better after I take it? DR. FITCH (coldly): I, am a physician, Freedley, not an astrologer. If you want a horoscope, there's a gypsy tearoom over on Lexington Avenue. -- S. J. Perelman
I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to me. It was a gypsy tarot deck that I used to carry everywhere. -- David Blaine

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