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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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• 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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• In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Religion, Balance, Church

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.92, BookBaby

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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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• Regarding green screen, green screen is really like doing some stage work. You have to make believe that there is a window, make believe that something is there that is really not there and convince the audience. It's part of acting.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Believe, Acting, Green

  "Benicio del Toro Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 9, 2010.

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• I've said that movies are the highest stakes make-believe game in the world, and this is truly the most highest stakes.

  Channing Tatum

  Believe, Games, World

  Source: collider.com

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• Novelists are people who have discovered that they can dampen their neuroses by writing make-believe. We will keep on doing that no matter what, while offering loftier explanations.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Believe, Writing, Offering

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• Horror films are art, it's all make believe. It's great if a filmmaker can try to push boundaries and see how much an audience can take and see what happens. It's fun to be able to do that.

  Tom Six

  Art, Fun, Believe

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe.

  Shirley Temple

  Real, Believe, Long Ago

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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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• As we get older, our fears, in some way, sharpen and become more personal, because we can no longer - let's say take a book like "It" or maybe "Christine," and say these are make-believe fears.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Book, Way

  "Stephen King On Growing Up, Believing In God And Getting Scared". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 31, 2014.

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• Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction.

  Heather O'Neill

  Children, Believe, Differences

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• I think that movies are really fake; they should be fake. I don't think my way is any better than anybody else's way, but I know they're not real. I like to lean into the make-believe aspect of movies. That's why they're better than real life.

  Steven Conrad

  Real, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's make-believe, it nevertheless is coming out of the deepest recesses of myself.

  Paul Auster

  Believe, Character, Fiction

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 5, 2009.

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• I think of fear as a survival function, and in the stories that I write, the only thing that I've tried to do is provide people with nightmares which are really safe places to put those fears for a while because you can say afterwards that uh, that, that well it was all just make-believe anyway, so I just took my emotions for a walk.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

  "Stephen King and Director Frank Darabont Talk The Mist". The Mist press conference, movieweb.com. November 13, 2007.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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