Fantasy Quotes - Page 26

• The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer: that freedom to invent outweighs loyalty to mere happenstance, the accidents of history; and good readers should know how to filter a general applicability from a particular story.

  Tom Shippey

  Loyalty, Echoes, Filters

  Tom Shippey (2014). “The Road to Middle-earth: Revised and Expanded Edition”, p.304, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A man who is not touched by the earthy lyricism of hot pastrami, the pungent fantasy of corned beef, pickles, frankfurters, the great lusty impertinence of good mustard is a man of stone and without heart.

  Herb Gardner

  Heart, Men, Hot

  Herb Gardner (2000). “Herb Gardner: the collected plays and the screenplay Who is Harry Kellerman and why is he saying those terrible things about me?”, Applause Books

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• The true liberation of eroticism lies in accepting the fact that there are a million facets to it, a million forms of eroticism, a million objects of it, situations, atmospheres, and variations. We have, first of all, to dispense with guilt concerning its expansion, then remain open to it's surprises, varied expressions, and mingle it with dreams, fantasies, and emotion for it to attain its highest potency.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Lying, Expression

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• Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality.

  Albert Hadley

  Reality, Discipline, Design

  "Albert Hadley, High Society's Decorator, Dies at 91" by Bruce Weber, www.nytimes.com. March 30, 2012.

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• Merrie Destefano storms the world of urban fantasy with AFTERLIFE, breathing new life into the vast genre of the undead. Gritty, poignant, in the tradition of Bladerunner, with the nostalgia of New Orleans. With crisp and beautiful prose, AFTERLIFE blurs the line between the living and the dead to ask life's ultimate questions-even if they take nine lives to solve.

  Tosca Lee

  Beautiful, Afterlife, New Orleans

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• The Tiger's Curse Series has everything my heart could desire in a fantasy: exotic locations, two dashing princes, good vs. evil, the promise of danger and adventure lurking around every corner—and did I mention two dashing princes? Warning: these books may cause you to forget anything else exists until you've turned the last enthralling page. And then you'll want to start all over again!

  Bree Despain

  Book, Heart, Adventure

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• Faeries are not fantasy, but a connection to reality. Faeries are irrational, poetic, absurd, and very, very wise. Faeries say there is nonsense in dogma, and sense in nonsense. Faeries express themselves with high seriousness and low humour. Faeries are resistant to all definitions.

  Brian Froud

  Wise, Reality, Connections

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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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• Anthony Ryan is a new fantasy author destined to make his mark on the genre. His debut novel, Blood Song, certainly has it all: great coming of age tale, compelling character, and a fast-paced plot. If his first book is any indication of things to come, then all fantasy readers should rejoice as a new master storyteller has hit the scene.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Song, Book, Character

  Interview with Fran Friel, amazingstoriesmag.com. March 22, 2013.

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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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• 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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• I really am a manifestation of my own fantasy.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Manifestation, My Own

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

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• They always pencil in my boobs. I was only angry when they were really droopy. For King Arthur, for a poster, they gave me these really strange droopy tits. I thought, well if you’re going to make me fantasy breasts, at least make perky breasts.

  Keira Knightley

  Kings, Strange, King Arthur

  "Topless Keira Knightley: I'm Not Anorexic" by Evann Gastaldo, www.newser.com. November 13, 2012.

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• I played lots of fantasy games. I would create these worlds, and I would believe in them.

  Lana Parrilla

  Believe, Games, World

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

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• The culture of celebrity has become insane. It's all based on fantasy, and I find it creepy and disturbing.

  Sophia Myles

  Creepy, Insane, Culture

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Drama is my sweet spot, but the thing about being an actor is that you want to do a variety of things. I definitely love fantasy and would want to be in a fantasy project.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Sweet, Drama, Actors

  "Interview: Lupita Nyong’o Takes S&A Inside the Emotion and Brutality of Filming ’12 Years a Slave’". Interview with Jai Tiggett, www.indiewire.com. January 16, 2014.

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• The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

  Tom Baker

  Reading, Old Testament, Favourite

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

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• I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.

  Norm MacDonald

  Sports, Real, Order

  "Norm MacDonald Has No Problem Paying O.J. Simpson Under the Table". Interview with Abram Sauer, www.esquire.com. April 12, 2011.

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• I'm thinking of putting together an all-star band. I definitely have a bit of a rock fantasy.

  Jessica Pare

  Stars, Thinking, Rocks

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• Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll.

  Billy Corgan

  Live Life, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• What is appealing is the idea of attaining the unattainable and learning from it. Once you obtain a fantasy it becomes a reality, and that reality is not as exciting as your fantasy. Through the fantasies you learn to appreciate your own realities.

  Ricardo Montalban

  Reality, Ideas, Appreciate

  "'Fantasy Island's' Ricardo Montalban Dead at 88", www.foxnews.com. January 15, 2009.

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• A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful. She is less likely to have an agenda than a young woman-no biological clock tick-tocking beside her lover's bed, no campaign to lead him to the altar, no rescue fantasies. The seasoned woman knows who she is. She could be any one of us, as long a she is committed to living fully and passionately in the second half of her life, despite failures and false starts.

  Gail Sheehy

  Sweet, Women, Wine

  Gail Sheehy (2006). “Sex and the Seasoned Woman: Pursuing the Passionate Life”, Random House Incorporated

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• The Batman type of story may stimulate children to homosexual fantasies, of the nature of which they may be unconscious.

  Fredric Wertham

  Children, Stories, May

  Fredric Wertham (1972). “Seduction of the innocent”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• Do you wanna be a poet and write? Do you wanna be an actor up in lights? Do you wanna be soldier, and fight for love? Do you wanna travel the world? Do you wanna be a diver for pearls? Or climb the mountain, and touch the clouds above? Be anyone you want to be. Bring to life your fantasies. But I want something in return, I want you to burn, burn for me, baby. Like a candle in the night. Oh burn, burn for me, burn for me.

  Jo Dee Messina

  Baby, Writing, Fighting

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