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• If Shane Warne were to become England spin bowling coach I think it would be fantastic for myself and all those learning to bowl spin in England.

  Monty Panesar

  Thinking, Would Be, England

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• I am really excited about Battle of the Stars, the line-up looks fantastic. I've no doubt that despite their fame my hand holding will still be in high demand as they take on the judges often harsh words. Lets just hope I'm not having to mop up too many tears!

  Kate Thornton

  Stars, Hands, Judging

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• Once as I sat painting, I became aware of a man's face hovering near me, moving closer and closer to the panel I was working on. When he spoke he said, 'That is a fantastic brush!

  Robert Genn

  Moving, Men, Hovering

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• But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.

  Robert E. Howard

  Writing, Men, Ideas

  Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom”, p.15, Del Rey

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• I definitely feel that we cannot do the fantastic things based on the real, unless we first know the real.

  Walt Disney

  Real, Design, Development

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• That's why I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete. I think that's one of Apple's challenges, really. When two young people walk in with the next thing, are we going to embrace it and say this is fantastic? Are you going to be willing to drop our models, or are we going to explain it away? I think we'll do better, because we're completely aware of it and we make it a priority.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Thinking, Two

  Interview with David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• The ecstasy and completion of absorption in God is so fantastic that you can't possibly have lost anything because all the things you've always loved and always experienced came forth from there and exist there and are always there.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Lost, Ecstasy

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• Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Land, Cities, Benefits

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2007). “Poems”, p.250, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Where's our Paul Newmans? Where's our Robert Redfords? We've got Jason Statham, who is great... blue collar and cool, which is fantastic. And we've got Hugh Grant, which is great. But where's this crossover, this blue collar guy who is cool? Where is our James Dean? Where is our John Travolta and Steve McQueen?

  Ricky Gervais

  Blue, Guy, Jason

  "Cemetery Junction - Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The more lines I have, in general, the worse a movie is. It's very rare that I get say great things in fantastic movies. So if you see me as like, number one on a call sheet? In general, that movie is pretty bad.

  Matthew Lillard

  Numbers, Lines, Sheets

  "Matthew Lillard on growing up". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2014.

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• My studio is a fantastic combination of old and new, and that's how I've always liked to work.

  Kate Bush

  Old And New, Combination, Studios

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2011.

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• I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic.

  Alfred Brendel

  Desire, Needs, Grotesque

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• Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even in an age so ferociously anti-romantic as our own, to write fantastic stories for adults: though you will usually need to have made a name in some more fashionable kind of literature before anyone will publish them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Children, Book, Writing

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace.

  William John Locke

  May, Matter, Realms

  William John Locke (1906). “The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne: A Novel”

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• All serious art, music, literature is a critical act. It is so, firstly, in the sense of Matthew Arnold's phrase: "a criticism of life." Be it realistic, fantastic, Utopian or satiric, the construct of the artist is a counter-statement to the world.

  George Steiner

  Art, Criticism, Phrases

  George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.11, Faber & Faber

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• Lazy Line Painter Jane - it was an insane way to make a record! It was just in a church hall, no separate rooms for instruments, and a crappy digital desk, and I think it's fantastic. I think it's one of the best records we ever made. But if you actually said that to a professional recording engineer or producer they'd laugh at you.

  Stevie Jackson

  Thinking, Laughing, Lazy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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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• Music has been a fantastic guidance for me. I'll be eternally thankful for this guidance.

  Pinchas Zukerman

  Guidance, Has Beens

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• He’s a fantastic talent and the complete footballer, probably the most coveted in the Premiership. It’s a privilege for the rest of us to be on the same field. If i could have anything i wanted for Christmas, i’d take Thierry Henry

  Steve Bruce

  Fields, Privilege, Talent

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• The world is still a fantastic and wondrous place to live.

  Seal

  World, Places To Live, Stills

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• What shall I compare it to, this fantastic thing I call my Mind? To a waste-paper basket, to a sieve choked with sediment, or to a barrel full of floating froth and refuse? No, what it is really most like is a spider's web, insecurely hung on leaves and twigs, quivering in every wind, and sprinkled with dewdrops and dead flies. And at its centre, pondering forever the Problem of Existence, sits motionless the spider-like and uncanny Soul.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Wind, Forever, Soul

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1989). “An anthology”

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• There are some good things and some fantastic ones in Auden's early attitude; if the reader calls it a muddle I shall acquiesce, with the remark that the later position might be considered a more rarefied muddle. But poets rather specialize in muddles and I have no doubt which of the muddles was better for Auden's poetry: one was fertile and usable, the other decidedly is not. Auden sometimes seems to be saying with Henry Clay, "I had rather be right than poetry"; but I am not sure, then, that he is either.

  Randall Jarrell

  Attitude, Doubt, Might

  "The Third Book of Criticism". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Changes of Attitude and Rhetoric in Auden's Poetry" (p. 131), 1969.

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• Whoever the kid had been, whoever had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: "You just change your attitude now please, young man." This transformation in kids - from flashing dragonflies, so to say, to sticky water-surface worms slowly slipping downstream - is noticed with pride by society and with mortification by God, which is a fantastic way of saying I don't like to see kids throw away their truth just because it isn't worth a dime in the open market.

  William Saroyan

  Teacher, Attitude, Kids

  William Saroyan (1968). “I used to believe I had forever, now I'm not so sure”

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• Some celebrities, it's interesting, because they're fantastic playing a character when somebody is writing the lines for them, and they're amazing actors, but they're not as comfortable on television in front of a live audience and just having a conversation and being themselves.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Character, Writing, Interesting

  "Ellen Degeneres to freshen her talk show". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. September 2, 2006.

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• If you take a look at the most fantastic schemes that are considered impossible: teleportation, warp drive, parallel universes, other dimensions, artificial intelligence, ray guns, you realize that they can be possible if we advance technology a little bit.

  Michio Kaku

  Gun, Technology, Rays

  Interview with Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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