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• We are a nation of physical animals who have forgotten how much we enjoy being that. We are cushioned by this kind of make-believe, unreal world and have no idea what we can survive because we are never challenged or tested.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Believe, Animal, Ideas

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• There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream ... For a garden is Arcady brought home. It is man's bit of gaudy make-believe - his well-disguised fiction of an unvexed Paradise ... a world where gayety knows no eclipse and winter and rough weather are held at bay.

  J. D. Sedding

  Dream, Time, Believe

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• With Epcot Center, the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Life, Believe, Thinking

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.160, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.

  Eric Bogosian

  Fake People, Believe, Mental Illness

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• I'm foremost an actor. I feel embarrassed being compared to the guys who really work at it. I fake it, I make believe I know all about it, which is what you're supposed to do as an actor.

  Lloyd Bridges

  Fake People, Believe, Guy

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• For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.

  Anson Mount

  Believe, Play, Acting

  "Q&A – Anson Mount (Cullen Bohannon)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com. August 2012.

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• There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.

  Thomas Huxley

  Integrity, Believe, Hands

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.1, Library of Alexandria

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• It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life.

  Judd Nelson

  Believe, Careers, Mask

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

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• I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.

  Dakota Fanning

  Believe, Men, Fire

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• There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing.

  David Canary

  Children, Fun, Believe

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• Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.

  James M. Barrie

  Believe, Islands, Differences

  "Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy)".

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• There didn't seem to her any harm in it, and the make-believe was so comforting.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Believe, Comforting, Harm

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.75, Vintage

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• I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.

  Vince Vaughn

  Religious, Art, Believe

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

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• There is need for some kind of make-believe in order to face death unflinchingly. To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for.

  Eric Hoffer

  Death, Real, Believe

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you'll get a rough picture of what life in a corporation is like.

  Lee Iacocca

  Block, Believe, Class

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• In a world where celebrity equals talent, and where make-believe is called reality, it is most important to have real love, truth and stability in your life.

  Bernie Brillstein

  Real, Believe, Important

  Bernie Brillstein, David Rensin (2004). “It's All Lies and That's the Truth: and 49 More Rules from 50 Years of Trying to Make a Living in Hollywood”, p.4, Penguin

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• Are you telling me you think Ranger's a superhero?' Think about it. We don't know where he lives. We don't know anything about him.' Superheroes are make-believe.' Oh yeah?' Lula said. 'What about God?

  Janet Evanovich

  Believe, Thinking, Superhero

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.593, Simon and Schuster

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• Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together. This kind of picture is a lie. Things are forced to fit because the writer or the director or somebody wanted something in that didn't belong. And it doesn't feel right

  Daniel Keyes

  Lying, Believe, Together

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we always loved playing make-believe games. I had a well-primed imagination. I didn't start thinking about writing as a serious pursuit, a career I could have, until after college.

  Sara Zarr

  Mother, Believe, Writing

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• Westerns are fun. I wish more of them would be made. When you're out there on a set, carrying a gun, riding a horse, you kind of get lost in that make believe world.

  Ricky Schroder

  Horse, Fun, Believe

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• Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.

  Patrick MacGill

  Workout, Believe, Exercise

  MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.37, Read Books Ltd

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• To sit on the front steps — whether it's a veranda in a small town or a concrete stoop in a big city — and to talk to our neighborhoods is infinitely more important than to huddle on the living-room lounger and watch a make-believe world in not-quite living color.

  Harvey Milk

  Believe, Color, Cities

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• Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy.

  Fred Barnes

  Believe, Reality, Political

  "The Return of Big Government". www.weeklystandard.com. March 9, 2009.

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• Who needs make-believe monsters when there are so many real ones.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Real, Believe, Monsters

  Jennifer Donnelly (2014). “The Winter Rose”, p.138, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews came on the set to shoot things. I didn't want our make-believe to be exposed.

  Patrick Stewart

  Believe, People, Important

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