Fantasy Quotes - Page 16

• Build your life brick upon brick,
  Live a life of truth,
  And you will look back on a life of truth.
  Live a life of fantasy,
  And you will look back on delusion.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Motivational, Bricks, Looks

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• One siupreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination that ceates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.

  Richard Wagner

  Motivational, Reality, Imagination

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• Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Dream, Omnipotence, Childhood

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• What we try to do with all of our albums, is live out our musical fantasies in the most honest fashion we know how...We want to include songs that lyrically cover subjects ranging from the heaviest things we've ever done to light-hearted experiences that can best be presented through sentimental bluesy ballads that are usually good for a chuckle or two.

  Michael Hutchence

  Fashion, Song, Light

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• This is a fantasy fiddle tune. The part you fantasize is the fiddle.

  Guy Clark

  Tunes, Performing, Fiddle

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• Anything that happens after I write a song...that's fine with me. It's up to the listener to read into it what they need from it. And that's part of the reason I write like I do, so I can leave the holes in the right places so people can say, 'Yeah, that happened to me,' and they're able to have their own little fantasy about it.

  Guy Clark

  Song, Writing, People

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• The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never give you any rest.

  Orson Scott Card

  Giving, Mental Illness, Worst

  Orson Scott Card (1992). “The Changed Man: Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card”, p.119, Macmillan

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• At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.

  Imelda Staunton

  Envy, Looks, Exotic

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• One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.

  Bernard Malamud

  Funny Marriage, Return, Brides

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• I was inspired by movies like 'Jawbreaker' and 'Carrie' for the 'Break the Rules' video. I never went to prom when I was at school so this was kind of me living out my weird fantasy of what prom would be like in my head. I asked Rose McGowan to be in the video and I never ever thought she would say yes, but she did... so she came to prom too... And she trashed it.

  Charli XCX

  School, Rose, Would Be

  "Charli XCX's 'Break the Rules' Video: Watch The 'Boom Clap' Star Defy Rose McGowan" by Jason Lipshutz, www.billboard.com. August 25, 2014.

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• I always had a fantasy of meeting a girl who was as serious as I was.

  Sheila Heti

  Girl, Serious, Meetings

  Sheila Heti (2012). “How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life”, p.137, Macmillan

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• The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Compassion, Temptation, Moral

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• In anthropology, which historically exists to 'give voice' to others, there is no greater taboo than self-revelation. The impetus of our discipline, with its roots in Western fantasies about barbaric others, has been to focus primarily on 'cultural' rather than 'individual' realities. The irony is that anthropology has always been rooted in an 'I' - understood as having a complex psychology and history - observing a 'we' that, until recently, was viewed as plural, ahistorical, and nonindividuated.

  Ruth Behar

  Reality, Voice, Roots

  Ruth Behar (2014). “The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart”, p.26, Beacon Press

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• It was a standard fantasy when you fell in love to imagine you could go back in time and find your beloved growing up, appear there, save him or her, get together as adolescents, by magic, and go on together, fighting for one another, into old age, never wavering.

  Norman Rush

  Growing Up, Fighting, Magic

  Norman Rush (2013). “Subtle Bodies”, p.11, Granta Books

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• Cliché openings in fantasy can include an opening scene set in a battle (and my peeve is that I don’t know any of the characters yet so why should I care about this battle) or with a pastoral scene where the protagonist is gathering herbs (I didn’t realize how common this is).

  Kristin Nelson

  Character, Battle, Gathering

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• I've always thought a good whodunnit needed vampires, monks, and gods. P.G. Holyfield has created an engaging world that both fantasy and mystery fans will enjoy.

  Mur Lafferty

  Vampire, Fans, World

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• Fantasy is so much hotter than reality most of the time.

  Adam Lambert

  Reality, Hotter

  Adam Lambert ‏@adamlambert, twitter.com. August 1, 2010.

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• 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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• I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does -- and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be. [With Scott] I wanted to see him as a white knight and was crushed whenever anything normal happened. I wanted to be the princess. Now I'm much more willing to see myself as human and flawed, and accept someone -- the whole picture. My life is definitely changing for the better. I couldn't be happier or feel more comfortable with the direction it's going in.

  Jennifer Garner

  Princess, Hard Work, Knights

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• I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Writing, Want, Cookbook

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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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• 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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• Onstage I do all the stuff I'd never do in real life, like lashing out at people who make me mad or freaking out in a long bank lineup. Performing allows me to fulfill all the sicko fantasies I've ever had.

  Colin Mochrie

  Real, Mad, Long

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

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• You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse; grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God... and where can you go from there?

  Al Pacino

  Dream, Ego, Grease

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