Fantasy Quotes - Page 2

• Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

  Francisco Goya

  Mother, Wisdom, Art

  Francisco de Goya, Peter Russell (2016). “Delphi Complete Paintings of Francisco de Goya (Illustrated)”, p.90, Delphi Classics

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• People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

  Terry Pratchett

  Opportunity, People, Temptation

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.39, Harper Collins

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• The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Knowledge

  "János : The Story of a Doctor" by János Plesch, translated by Edward FitzGerald, 1947.

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• Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Science, Drug, Too Much

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.12, Random House

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• Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

  Mason Cooley

  Mirrors, Imagination, Desire

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• One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.

  Penn Jillette

  Reality, Differences, Magic

  "Voodoo and Violence". Interview with Steve Kurtz, reason.com. April 1994.

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• I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.

  Ben Kingsley

  Children, Remember, Film

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• Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.

  Grace Jones

  Art, Real, People

  FaceBook post by Grace Jones from Aug 01, 2012

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• The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

  Manuel Puig

  Intellectual, Novelists, Literature

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• How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Stories, Research, Depends

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• Fantasy is the only truth.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Abbie Hoffman (2009). “Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a Five-Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial”, p.66, Da Capo Press

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• I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker.

  George Eads

  Thinking, Play, Giving

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• What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

  Edward Albee

  Reality, People, Want

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• Fantasy football is not only a good thing, but a great thing.

  Jay Mohr

  Football, Good Things, Great Things

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• In real football, I wouldn't want Terrell Owens anywhere near my team. But you're nuts if you don't take him in fantasy.

  Randy Cross

  Teamwork, Football, Real

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• A restaurant is a fantasy-a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast.

  Warner LeRoy

  Food, Cooking, Important

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• And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.

  Peter Shaffer

  Children, Thinking, Purpose

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• All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Character, Exaggeration Is

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• Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well.

  Sarah Zettel

  Thinking, Range, Wells

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• I draw on my memories but blended with a lot of fantasy.

  Bryan Adams

  Memories, Draws

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• Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows or slamming doors? The British author G.K. Chesterton summarized the role of fantasy very well. He said its purpose was to take the everyday, commonplace world and lift it up and turn it around and show it to us from a different perspective, so that once again we see it for the first time and realize how marvelous it is. Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that make us human.

  Terry Pratchett

  Escaping, Doors, Skills

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• If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.

  Terry Pratchett

  Life, Powerful, Fantasy Stories

  "Terry Pratchett Toast" by Robert Haynes-Peterson, www.askmen.com.

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• Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.

  Eminem

  Nice, Rap, Home

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• I really feel the need to create an alternate world, a vision of what might be magical and beautiful and fantastic about being human.

  Shary Boyle

  Beautiful, Vision, Needs

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• I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.

  Jennifer Connelly

  Trying, Hollywood, Stay Focused

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