Fantasy Quotes - Page 33

• It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them.

  Matthew Modine

  Baseball, Athlete, Son

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• So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.

  Radha Mitchell

  Art, Ideas, America

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• I'm a sci-fi guy. But I like fantasy too.

  Richard Madden

  Guy, Sci Fi

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.

  Victoria Moran

  Ideas, Going Away, Debt

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• It may be a mistake to say this, but I know my limitations as an actor and I know what I can and can not do. Robert De Niro can do everything. I can't. A 'Highlander' movie is basically my thing. What I'm attempting to do is develop my ability as an actor and try to be the best I can be in the fantasy/action genre.

  Christopher Lambert

  Mistake, Trying, May

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out now that need a lot more editing. Fantasy got to be so popular that people began to think 'We don't need to be as diligent with the razor blade,' but they do.

  Tamora Pierce

  Book, Thinking, Editing

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• The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.

  Tamora Pierce

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "Philip Pullman, Tamora Pierce, and Christopher Paolini Talk Fantasy Fiction". Interview with Dave Weich, www.highbeam.com. July 31, 2003.

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• Imagine wasting all that perfectly good anger on paranoid fantasies. Not since Emily Litella got upset about "Soviet jewelry" has there been such a waste of anger. You will notice a certain theme to these Emily Litella Moments. Behind them all is a touching faith that someone, somewhere is actually in charge of what's happening - a proposition I beg leave to doubt.

  Molly Ivins

  Perfectly Good, Upset, Touching

  Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.72, Vintage

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• Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us all, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy as something not to be trusted, something to be purged. But it's in there, deep inside, a spark waiting to set a touch-paper alight.

  Tahir Shah

  Imagination, Waiting, Television

  Tahir Shah (2009). “In Arabian Nights”, p.71, Random House

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• Fantasy and anger totally destroy the human body. Tolerance is the greatest human asset.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Tolerance, Body

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• Anything other than free enterprise always means a society of compulsion and lower living standards, and any form of socialism strictly enforced means dictatorship and the total state. That this statement is still widely disputed only illustrates the degree to which malignant fantasy can capture the imagination of intellectuals.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Life, Freedom, Business

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• Your whole life is nothing but a dream. You live in a fantasy where everything you know about yourself is only true for you. Your truth is not the truth for anyone else.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Life, Dream, Truth

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• Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Struggle, Home

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

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• When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting with Homer and up through Shakespeare and Milton, the most important themes to tackle are those of the mythopoeic domain, tales of the body and mind seen through a temperament and a cosmos divorced from current reality so what is said can be more clear.

  Janet Morris

  Writing, Reality, Thinking

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• Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Art, Thinking, Form

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.302, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm removed in my real life, and unable to express certain things face to face. So I have always found myself in this fantasy world. That's why I started writing songs and stories from a very young age. I'd much rather walk around anonymously cooking up tales than face the people that I have known forever.

  Jenny Lewis

  Song, Real, Writing

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• To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Science, Ideas, Two

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• To all the fantasy owners who drafted me: You're welcome.

  Peyton Manning

  Welcome, Owners, You Re Welcome

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• Once upon a time, there was a Magic Kingdom made of hopes and childhood fantasies. A timeless place where every land was filled with wonder. A place where everyone who entered its gates would be given the gift of the young at heart.

  Julie Andrews

  Heart, Magic Kingdom, Land

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• I have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It's my way of stirring up my imagination to see what I find hidden in my head. I call the results dream pictures, fantasy sketches, and even brain-sharpenin g exercises.

  Maurice Sendak

  Dream, Exercise, Imagination

  "Graeme Base adds music to his magical illustrations", www.cnn.com. September 1, 1999.

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• We scientists have fantasies of being uniquely qualified to make great discoveries. Alas, reality is cruel: most of us are replaceable. For the vast majority of scientific contributions, if scientist X hadn't achieved it that year, scientist Y would have achieved the same result or something very similar soon thereafter.

  Jared Diamond

  Science, Reality, Discovery

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• I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality.

  Lana Del Rey

  Reality, Imagination, My Imagination

  Interview with Felicia C. Sullivan, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2009.

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• I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Years, Two, Trying

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• Is this the real life?
  Is this just fantasy?
  Caught in a landslide,
  No escape from reality.
  
  Open your eyes,
  Look up to the skies and see,
  I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy,
  Because I'm easy come, easy go,
  Little high, little low,
  Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me.

  Freddie Mercury

  Song, Real, Eye

  Song: Bohemian Rhapsody

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• A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses

  John Milton

  Memories, Men, Names

  1634 Comus, A Mask, l.204-8.

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