Fantasy Quotes - Page 36

• You'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.

  Jenny Han

  Love, Life, Regret

  Jenny Han (2014). “To All the Boys I've Loved Before”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy.

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Reality, Stories, Life Story

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• Making clothes involves what I like...color, pattern, shape and movement...I like the everyday process...the people, the pressure, the surprise of seeing the work come alive walking and dancing around on strangers. Like red lipstick on the mouth, my products wake up and brighten and bring the wearer to life...drawing attention to her beauty and specialness...her moods and movements...her dreams and fantasies.

  Betsey Johnson

  Dream, Color, Drawing

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• Let me tell you the truth: The truth is what is. And what should be is a fantasy a terrible, terrible lie that someone gave the people long ago.

  Lenny Bruce

  Lying, Long Ago, People

  Lenny Bruce (1992). “How to Talk Dirty and Influence People”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. But, like those other fantasies that we can't disprove, we can say that God is very, very improbable.

  Richard Dawkins

  Flying, Monsters, Fairy

  "Why There Almost Certainly Is No God" by Richard Dawkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 23, 2006.

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• To become a big movie star like Joan Crawford you need to wear blinders and pay single-minded attention to your career. Nobody paid attention to me, including me. I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.

  Evelyn Keyes

  Girl, Stars, Fairy Stories

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• I gather together the dreams, fantasies, experiences that preoccupied me as a girl, that stay with me and appear and reappear in different shapes and forms in all my work. Without telling everything that happened, they document all that remains most vivid.

  Bell Hooks

  Girl, Dream, Together

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• The Mirror Empire is the most original fantasy I've read in a long time, set in a world full of new ideas, expanding the horizons of the genre. A complex and intricate book full of elegant ideas and finely-drawn characters.

  Adrian Tchaikovsky

  Book, Character, Ideas

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• There's this idea that it's all natural, but everything's been staged to look natural. It is also an invention. It's just that my inventions are different. I often get asked about my artifice, but isn't fashion based on the idea that we can create a fantasy?

  Lady Gaga

  Fashion, Ideas, Different

  "The Real Lady Gaga". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 6, 2011.

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• Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.

  Terry Goodkind

  Essence, Focus, Stories

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• Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.

  Michio Kaku

  Engineering, Fiction, Problem

  'The Super Power IssueA User’s Guide to Time Travel" by Michio Kaku, www.wired.com. August 1, 2003.

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• Quit making excuses. What we're really talking about here is commitment. Until you make a commitment to your dream, it's not a commitment at all. It's just another fantasy. And fantasies don't come true because they're not real, we're not committed to them. When we make commitments, they become dreams. And dreams are very real.

  Rudy Ruettiger

  Dream, Real, Commitment

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• When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much.

  John Cleese

  People, Age, World

  "The Secret Life of Brian". TV Movie, January 1, 2007.

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• If you don’t define yourself for yourself then you will be crushed into other's fantasies of you and eaten alive

  Audre Lorde

  Alive, Define Yourself, Crushed

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• Young people are having a hard time with what's reality and what's fantasy these days...We created discussion. It wasn't to create controversy for sale's sake, but rather it was my obligation to use the medium for discussion. Nobody's discussing the grown-up topics; they are faking and fronting.

  Chuck D

  Reality, Hard Times, People

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• I have something to tell you non-smokers that I know for a fact that you don't know, and I feel it's my duty to pass on information at all times. Ready?. . . . Non-smokers die every day . . . Enjoy your evening. See, I know that you entertain this eternal life fantasy because you've chosen not to smoke, but let me be the 1st to POP that bubble and bring you hurling back to reality . . . You're dead too.

  Bill Hicks

  Reality, Information, Evening

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• Fantasy isn't just a jolly escape: It's an escape, but into something far more extreme than reality, or normality. It's where things are more beautiful and more wondrous and more terrifying. You move into a world of conflicting extremes.

  Terry Gilliam

  Beautiful, Moving, Reality

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 05, 2003.

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• EVERYTHING IN LIFE IS A FANTASY UNTIL YOU CHOOSE TO MAKE IT A REALITY.

  Rob Dyrdek

  Reality, Life Is, You Choose

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• Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.

  Don Roff

  Running, Reality, Years

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• The world of the arts is by no means always comfortable, but neither is it likely ever to be boring. It is full of surprises, humor, traps for the unwary, and challenges to smugness. It is a world of moods as well as of revelation, of beliefs and fears, of unpleasant truth as well as of delicious fantasy. Perhaps it is arrogant to say that anyone who does not venture into this world is only half-interested in life. I say it, nonetheless.

  Russell Lynes

  Art, Mean, Challenges

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• I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.

  Peter Shaffer

  Thinking, Actors, Facts

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• Contrary to the fantasies of the fundamentalists, there was no deathbed conversion, no last minute refuge taken in a comforting vision of a heaven or an afterlife. For Carl, what mattered most was what was true, not merely what would make us feel better. Even at this moment when anyone would be forgiven for turning away from the reality of our situation, Carl was unflinching. As we looked deeply into each other's eyes, it was with a shared conviction that our wondrous life together was ending forever.

  Ann Druyan

  Taken, Eye, Feel Better

  "Billions and Billions". Book by Carl Sagan, epilogue, p. 271, 1997.

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• I am a hopeless romantic. A silly, ridiculous, foolish romantic. I live in a fantasy land. I need to get real. And now, for the first time, I want to get real. I want a real relationship with a real man in the real world–-with all the real problems, faults, and whatever comes with it.

  Alexandra Potter

  Real, Silly, Men

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• Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it.

  Dan Flavin

  Light, Desire, Instruments

  Dan Flavin (1989). “Neue Anwendungen fluoreszierenden Lichts mit Diagrammen, Zeichnungen und Drucken von Dan Flavin, 26.2.-16.4.1989, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• The incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Reality, People, Commodity

  Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.103, Pan Macmillan

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