Fantasy Quotes - Page 30

• Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Tyrants, Foundation, Earth

  Walter Savage Landor (1901). “Classical (imaginary) Conversations: Greek, Roman, Modern”

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• Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings.

  Eudora Welty

  Spring, Humans, Seeds

  Eudora Welty (1975). “Fairy Tale of the Natchez Trace: A Paper Read at the Annual Dinner Meeting of the Mississippi Historical Society, Jackson, Mississippi, March 7, 1975”

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• To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.

  Duane Michals

  Way

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• I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.

  Andy Grove

  Growing Up, Nice, Teenager

  "Andy Grove: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.

  Patricia Briggs

  Real, Reading, Research

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• Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.

  Patricia Briggs

  Book, Writing, Fiction

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• Sociology and anthropology are not disciplines which take easily to situations where people are able to live out their fantasies, not just in the symbolic action of ritual, but in the concrete theater of society at large.

  Jonathan Raban

  Discipline, People, Society

  Jonathan Raban (2017). “Soft City: Picador Classic”, p.53, Pan Macmillan

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• A lot of people have it - that fantasy of being lord or lady of the manor, either in the present or at some time in history.

  Penelope Keith

  People, Lord

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• The only way I'd need a pain reliever to enjoy sex is if all of my fantasies came true at the same time.

  Drew Carey

  Funny, Sex, Pain

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• Food-what is chosen from the possibilities available, how it is presented, how it is eaten, with whom and when, and how much time is allotted to cooking and eating it-is one of the means by which a society creates itself and acts out its aims and fantasies.

  Margaret Visser

  Food, Mean, Cooking

  Margaret Visser (2010). “Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Writing, Derivatives, Makers

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.371, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think the fantasy of being a movie star is more powerful than the reality. So, for me, even if it's not a great film or a great play I'm doing, to know that you went for it. You had an experience that made you grow artistically and personally. What's really satisfying is knowing that you did a good job.

  Marisa Tomei

  Jobs, Stars, Powerful

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

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• Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.

  Milton Avery

  Nature, Drama, Wind Blowing

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• The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Children, Stories, World

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• The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Animal, Stories, Fables

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• It's people's worst fantasy to see their partner kissing someone else, even though it's a job and it's not real.

  Hayley Atwell

  Jobs, Real, Kissing

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• I love sci-fi and fantasy.

  Amber Benson

  Sci Fi

  "Oz Comic-Con: your world of choice, dressed up as a simple convention" by Paul Farrell, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2015.

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• I like fantasy. I've always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in.

  Scott Bakula

  Dream, Kids, Likes

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

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• My fantasy for children's television is that it's not really children's television, it's everybody's television.

  Steve Burns

  Children, Television

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• We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.

  Tom Baker

  Ideas, Comfort, Substance

  "Q&A with all the living Doctors from Classic Doctor Who". ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com. June 7, 2012.

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• Game of Thrones' is a fantasy show not dedicated to any specific time, but it seems to exist in sort of a 1400s medieval fantasy world, and in that setting, I wouldn't have had a six-pack.

  Gwendoline Christie

  Games, Thrones, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Oh, I’m nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I’m nerdy about board games. My favorite board game is a board game I’m working on right now. It’s a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it’s going to be fun.

  Billy Campbell

  Fun, Reading, Games

  "Q&A – Billy Campbell (Darren Richmond)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. April 2012.

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• I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.

  Billy Crudup

  Our Society, Life Is, Misguided

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• Actually ninety-nine percent of my acting has nothing to do sci-fi or fantasy, I consider it a good part of my acting, and enjoy the roles I play.

  Claudia Christian

  Ninety Nine, Play, Acting

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• I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.

  Daniel Clowes

  Kids, Gun, Thinking

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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