Fantasy Quotes - Page 31

• Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because it's the one place where you can do the forbidden.

  Dorothy Allison

  Girl, Kids, World

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• For men, as they get bogged down with responsibilities, commitments, bureaucracy, it is a fantasy just to think of shedding everything literally, walking away with nothing at all, and just hitting the road.

  Lee Child

  Commitment, Responsibility, Thinking

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• And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it.

  Rosemarie DeWitt

  Thinking, Nostalgic

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

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• We have people being a little uncomfortable in their life on Earth with finances and so on, so Science Fantasy or Science Fiction allows people to think that there are possibilities beyond the gravity of our planet.

  Anthony Daniels

  Thinking, People, Fiction

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• I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period.

  Illeana Douglas

  Cowboy, Vintage, Dresses

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

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• One of my teachers says the sound you hear in the center of the universe is laughter. I don't know if it's true, but if you do something and 30 years later it still produces laughter, that's a fantasy you can't make up.

  Joyce DeWitt

  Teacher, Laughter, Years

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• My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age.

  Ted Dekker

  Spiritual, Strong, Writing

  Interview with Dick Donahue, www.publishersweekly.com. April 20, 2009.

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• I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.

  Joel Edgerton

  Character, Digging, Larger Than Life

  "Joel Edgerton’s flirtation with fame" by Luke Davies, www.themonthly.com.au. June 2013.

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• I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.

  Dan Fogler

  Dream, Growing Up, Princess

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• Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.

  Joshua Foer

  Crafts, Way, Fiction

  «Utopian for Beginners» by Joshua Foer, www.newyorker.com. December 24 & 31, 2012.

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• If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.

  David Gemmell

  Civilization, Fantasy Stories, Looks

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• Entourage' is a great show, but it's fantasy. I spent my twenties in L.A. in this business, and my life didn't look anything like that. 'Big Bang' reflects a side of men that is rarely shown. We see their flaws - all of them.

  Johnny Galecki

  Men, Bangs, Twenties

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• There's all these musicians in the world, and anybody that takes enough time to create a record or even think about the fantasy of rock & roll, I mean, it's a really vulnerable place to be in. It's a huge thing to do.

  Ryan Adams

  Thinking, Rocks, Musician

  "Morning Becomes Eclectic" with Jason Bentley, www.kcrw.com. December 02, 2011.

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• I was a huge fantasy geek growing up. I was the dungeon master in my D&D game.

  David Benioff

  Growing Up, Games, Dungeons

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• I'm a massive daydreamer. I'm constantly lost within my own fantasies and my own thoughts personally, and I think maybe that is sort of represented in what we do for a living, the fact that we make believe everything and we escape into these other characters for a living.

  Emily Browning

  Believe, Character, Thinking

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

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• I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.

  Grant Bowler

  Thinking, Way, Treats

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've always loved fantasy. I think it's a great way to look at issues that we have in our own lives with a little bit of the pressure off, you know.

  Alice Englert

  Thinking, Issues, Looks

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• I think a lot of people want people who actually have qualities they don't find attractive as a way of being able to change them. It's fascinating, because people think if they can change the other person, they can change themselves. It's a complex phenomenon. It's a fantasy that's actually about being able to come to terms with ourselves.

  Alice Englert

  Thinking, People, Quality

  "Alice Englert, Alden Ehrenreich on 'Beautiful Creatures' and Teenage Sexuality". The Moviefone Interview, www.moviefone.com. February 14, 2013.

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• If you're an actor, there's going to be a sense of fantasy about yourself, especially in the celebrity world we live in today. You give the illusion of being in control, sexy, at ease, with never a difficult moment. Those are the basic lies that all celebrities tell. For me, they're the more dangerous lies to come to terms with.

  Rupert Everett

  Sexy, Lying, Giving

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• I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet.

  Ace Frehley

  Character, Sleep, Drink

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

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• Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz between what's flesh and what's fantasy.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Real, Fire, Flesh

  Song: Jungleland, Album: Born To Run, 1975

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• The baby sits in front of MTV watching violent fantasies, while Dad guzzles beer with his favorite sport only to find his heroes all coked up.

  Lou Reed

  Sports, Baby, Dad

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.296, Da Capo Press

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• Fly me high through the starry skies or maybe to an astral plane, cross the highways of fantasy, help me to forget today's pain.

  Gary Wright

  Pain, Sky, Today

  Song: Dreamweaver

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• I'm only lookin' for a fantasy, an interlude from reality.

  Rod Stewart

  Art, Reality, Media

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• I've always been sceptical about the notion that the market is a person you can engage in an argument with, and that that person is an intelligent, rational, well-intentioned person: it is fantasy. We know that ... the market is subject to irrational optimism and pessimism, and is vindictive ... You're dealing with a crazy man ... Having got what he wants he will still kill you.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Business, Crazy, Intelligent

  "The Money Man: Super-economist Joseph Stiglitz on how to fix the recession". Interview with Sean O'Grady, www.independent.co.uk. February 9, 2010.

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