Fantasy Quotes - Page 15

• When you see something from afar, you develop a fantasy. But when you see it up close, 9 times out of 10, you wish you hadn't.

  Josh Hartnett

  Wish, Afar, Wish You

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• Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and suddenly she comes to a point where that’s not enough. All she can do is tell the truth. She tells the truth about her childhood, about the experiences she had in Oxford, and that is what saves her. True experience, not fantasy - reality, not lies - is what saves us in the end.

  Philip Pullman

  Lying, Reality, Oxford

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• I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up.

  Maya Rudolph

  Growing Up, Musician, Grows

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• What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.

  Honore de Balzac

  May, Dusk

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• Honestly, Im living my fantasy. Its being with my family, preferably on a snowy afternoon with a fire going, cuddled up in blankets, playing a game.

  Meredith Vieira

  Fire, Games, Afternoon

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• In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it

  Camryn Manheim

  Grandmother, Reality, Play

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• If you can tune into the fantasy life of an 11-year-old girl, you can make a fortune in this business.

  George Lucas

  Girl, Years, Tunes

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Guys are so predictable. They can't seem to separate fantasy from reality, so I get a lot of bikers and race car drivers hitting on me. They're all just playboys, so they don't interest me.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Reality, Race, Car

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• It's very important to make the man believable so that you can stretch the fantasy. Whether people like this kind of Bond is another question.

  Timothy Dalton

  Men, People, Important

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• I lived out my little rock'n'roll fantasy, I just wish I hadn't gotten into so much trouble for it.

  Courtney Love

  Rocks, Wish, Littles

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• No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again

  William J. Clinton

  Hate, Moving, Mean

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• We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Substance, Enmity

  The Cat and the Moon (1924) "Meditations in Time of Civil War 6: The

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• But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elements and how people relate when they’re in a dire situation or comedic situation.

  Fisher Stevens

  Science, People, Elements

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out exactly what happened and restore some of the missing parts.

  Norman Maclean

  Missing, Willing, Catastrophe

  Norman Maclean (2010). “Young Men and Fire”, p.46, University of Chicago Press

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• Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Labyrinth, Essentials, Fabric

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• Take it, and turn to facts my fantasies.

  Edmond Rostand

  Facts, Turns

  Edmond Rostand (1951). “Cyrano de Bergerac: a new version in English verse”

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• The warrior of light knows the importance of intuition. In the midst of battle, he does not have time to think of the enemy's blows, and so he uses his instinct and obeys his angel. in times of peace, he deciphers the signs that God sends him. People say, "He's mad." Or, "He lives in a fantasy world." Or even, "How can he possibly believe in such illogical things?" But the warrior knows that intuition is God's alphabet and he continues listening to the wind and talking to the stars.

  Paulo Coelho

  Stars, Believe, Angel

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• New rule: every fantasy author who doesn't treat horses like tireless hairy motorcycles automatically gets a Hugo.

  Jim C. Hines

  Horse, Motorcycle, Treats

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• She’d already decided to be with him. If only to wipe him from her mind, get him out of her system and stop the fantasies plaguing her. If only to prove to herself that being with him would not be pleasurable for her.

  Gena Showalter

  Mind, Wipe, Prove

  Gena Showalter (2010). “The Darkest Pleasure”, p.232, HQN Books

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• Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Witty, Rabbits, Drs

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• I always needed that extra fantasy world. I had to have another world I could be in at the same time.

  Stephenie Meyer

  World, Needed, Extras

  Stephenie Meyer (2011). “The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Dancing, Shadow, Fancy

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles (Annotated Edition)”, p.350, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.

  Charles Darwin

  Running, May, Evolution

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.36, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Wish, Trials

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 2, l. [90]

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• If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses

  Anais Nin

  Love You, Mean, Madness

  Anaïs Nin, “The Diary Of Anaïs Nin, Volume 1: 1931-1934”

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