Fantasy Quotes - Page 36

• Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse.

  Walt Disney

  Firsts, Animated, Impulse

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• Fantasy and reality often overlap.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Reality, Ideas

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• What seems real to the mind can be as important as any material fact. We live by the spirit and the imagination as well as by our senses. Cartoon animation can give fantasy the same reality as those things we can touch and see and hear.

  Walt Disney

  Real, Giving, Imagination

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• When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Reality, Sight

  "Be Our Guest: Perfecting the Art of Customer Service". Book by Theodore B. Kinni, 2001.

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• The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Dream, Lying, Giving

  Travis Bogard, Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill”, p.453, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I have a lot of fantasy.

  Jil Sander

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• This is the fantasy of every woman - to hold at our feet servile and tame slaves, like in Roman times. And the worse we treat them, the more passionate they become.

  Thalia

  Feet, Passionate, Slave

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• When we traded the results of our fantasies, it seemed to us-and rightly-that we had proceeded by unwarranted associations, by shortcuts so extraordinary that, if anyone had accused us of really believing them, we would have been ashamed.

  Umberto Eco

  Believe, Thinking, Association

  Umberto Eco (2001). “Foucault's Pendulum”, Random House

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• There's never been a fantasy movie of the epic battle of good versus evil that ended with evil winning.

  David Benioff

  Epic, Winning, Evil

  "Game of Thrones Showrunners on Season 4: It Will Never Be 'The Epic Conflict of Good and Evil'". Interview with Jim Windolf, www.vanityfair.com. March 12, 2014.

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• The older ones recently saw Mr and Mrs Smith and I think they thought that was the funniest thing they'd ever seen because, of course, watching your parents fight as spies is some strange sort of childhood fantasy.

  Angelina Jolie

  Fighting, Thinking, Parent

  "Maleficent - Angelina Jolie interview". Interview with Jason Palmer, Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I could be.

  Patrick Stewart

  Training, Acting, Larger Than Life

  "Sir Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart on Waiting For Godot". Interview with Dominic Cavendish, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 31, 2009.

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• Every character lives in ever actor and if you're doing your job right, you're just accessing that part of your fantasy life. I can kill someone just as quickly as I can have sex with someone. You can switch that instinct, no matter what - you can pretend anything.

  Matthew Lillard

  Jobs, Sex, Character

  "Matthew Lillard on growing up". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2014.

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• Most fears are not even based on our current reality. They are the product of imagined fears conjured up in our minds - the product of our own fantasies.

  Lauren Mackler

  Fear, Reality, Mind

  "Manage Fear So It Doesn’t Manage You" by Lauren Mackler, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2009.

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• Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have endangered our nation and our future. His argument for the morality, the honesty, and the humility of atheism is galvanizing. It is a relief that someone has spoken so frankly, with such passion yet such rationality. Now when the subject arises, as it inevitably does, I can simply say: Read Sam Harris’ Letter to a Christian Nation.

  Janna Levin

  Christian, Religious, Honesty

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• Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.

  Walter Wangerin

  Fiction, Science Fiction, Deals

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• When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd. For instance, success in all of its various guises; being known and being praised; ostensible pleasures, like acquiring money or seducing women, or traveling, going to and fro in the world and up and down in it like Satan, exploring and experiencing whatever Vanity Fair has to offer. In retrospect all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called “licking the earth.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Exercise, Vanity, Self

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• STARING INTO THE ABYSS by Richard Thomas is an outstanding book, a grim tapestry of broken lives and shattered dreams, of dark fantasies and dark reflections. It's one of the better single-author collections I've had the pleasure to read in recent years, and as such, gets my highest recommendation. It's also a fine testament to a talent I suspect we are going to be hearing a lot more from, and soon.

  Kealan Patrick Burke

  Dream, Book, Dark

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• Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically; mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it.

  Stephen King

  People, Cost, Fiction

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.367, Simon and Schuster

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• Sylvia Day delivers readers to a fantasy world as unique as it is erotic! Ms. Day is an up-and-coming talent in the world of erotic fiction. [on Pleasures of the Night ]

  Toni Blake

  Night, Unique, Erotic

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• There is a curious comfort in letting go. After the agony, letting go brings numbness, and after the numbness, clarity. As if I can see the world for the first time, and my place in it, independent of you, a whole vista of what may be. Even if it is not grand or inspiring, it is real and solid, unlike the fantasy I've built around you. I will do this.
  I will triumph over you.

  Julie Berry

  Letting Go, Real, Independent

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• Ah! si l'on o"  tait les chime'  res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left him?

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Men, Would Be, Pleasure

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• I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been justifying cruelties and injustices inflicted on millions of his contemporaries by the benefits which he hopes to confer on future generations: generations who, as one terrible moment now reveals to him, were never going to exist. Then he will see the massacres, the faked trials, the deportations, to be all ineffaceably real, an essential part, his part, in the drama that has just ended: while the future Utopia had never been anything but a fantasy.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Drama, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fiction Stories, World, Common

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.133, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I know I play into that image out there, but I try to say it is a fantasy. I look at my own pictures and wish I could look like that. There are probably five people in this whole entire world who actually look like that.

  Cindy Margolis

  Play, People, Trying

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• There is another component that makes us who we are. It is a fantasy comprising all of our actions and thoughts. It’s called an opinion. And we will die for our opinion

  Ruben Papian

  Our Actions, Who We Are, Opinion

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