Fantasy Quotes - Page 39

• We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories.

  Angelina Jolie

  Kids, Stories, Fairy Tale

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• Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.

  Camille Paglia

  Real, Compassion, World

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Camille Paglia, "Arion", Third Series, Volume 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I'm sick of simpering white girls with their princess fantasies.

  Camille Paglia

  Girl, Princess, White

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.12, Vintage

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• In negotiating with rejected lovers or husbands, women must stop thinking they can make everyone happy. In many cases of harassment and stalking, it is clear that the woman never learned how to terminate the fantasy which requires resolution and decisiveness on their part. Wavering, dithering, or passive hysterical fear will only intensify or prolong pursuit.

  Camille Paglia

  Husband, Thinking, Wavering

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.47, Vintage

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• Later, however, I came to recognize the objective nature of these dreams or fantasies ... Thus it was that I gradually came to acknowledge that such fantasies or dreams are neither meaningless nor purely arbitrary but rather convey a sort of "second meaning" of the terms applied.

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Dream, Arbitrary, Term

  Letter to Carl Jung, June 16, 1948.

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• Much of good science and perhaps all of great science has its roots in fantasy.

  E. O. Wilson

  Roots, Great Science, Good Science

  "Letters to a Young Scientist". Book by E. O. Wilson, 2013.

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• Do you know out of what the German Empire arose? Out of dreams, songs, fantasies and black-red-gold ribbons? Bismarck merely shook the tree that fantasies had planted.

  Theodor Herzl

  Dream, Song, Tree

  Quoted in Carl E Schorske Fin-de-Sie'cle Vienna (1961), p.165.

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• The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.

  Edmund White

  School, Italian, Past

  Edmund White (2016). “A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic”, p.102, Pan Macmillan

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• Whatever your sex fantasy is with your partner, consider it normal.

  Harriet Lerner

  Sex, Normal, Partners

  Harriet Lerner (2012). “Marriage Rules: A Manual for the Married and the Coupled Up”, p.109, Penguin

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• When divorces meant marriage no longer provided security for a lifetime, women adjusted by focusing on careers as empowerment. But when the sacrifice of a career met the sacrifices in a career, the fantasy of a career became the reality of trade-offs. Women developed career ambivalence.

  Warren Farrell

  Divorce, Sacrifice, Reality

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• How can I call security a woman's primary fantasy if I am saying it is also her primary need? Because while her primary need is the security of a home and a family circle, her primary fantasy is that someone else will earn enough to pay for them. Hence the focus of 2 billion women on the latest royal wedding.

  Warren Farrell

  Home, Royal Wedding, Circles

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• I don't think there is any difference between fantasy and reality in the way these should be approached in a film. Of course if you live that way you are clinically insane.

  Martin Scorsese

  Thinking, Reality, Differences

  "Scorsese on Scorsese". Book editing by Ian Christie, David Thompson, 2003.

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• We've more important studies than your fantasies and fears You know that rock's been perched up there for a hundred thousand years.

  Harry Chapin

  Rocks, Years, Important

  Song: The Rock, Album: Portrait Gallery, 1975

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• Reality must prove itself again and again to questioners ... it is the fantasy which goes on without contradiction, without having to prove itself.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Reality, Goes On, Contradiction

  Samuel R. Delany, Robert M. Williams (1964). “The towers of Toron”

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• Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.

  Anthony Daniels

  Ideas, Triumph, Existence

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• We all have some version of a fantasy that's easy to escape to, and we all want a real relationship where there's a common give-and-take and you're seen for who you are, and appreciated for that.

  Keri Russell

  Real, Giving, Want

  "Keri Russell and Producer Stephenie Meyer Talk AUSTENLAND and the Lasting Appeal of Jane Austen Stories". Press conference, collider.com. August 13, 2013.

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• Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate is how you think about information that's presented in front of you. I think that's the great challenge. You have people who believe they do know how to think about the information, but don't, and they're in the position of power and legislation. You can't base a society on non-objectively verifiable truth. Otherwise, it's a fantasy land and science is the pathway to those emerging truths that are hard-earned and that some have taken decades, if not centuries, to emerge from experiments all around the world.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Taken, Believe, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• You have so many sources to draw on when you're a fantasy writer.

  Terry Pratchett

  Source, Draws

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out of all the books that there were to read in the library. I was keen on reading stuff that took me to other places.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Reading, Years

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• For me, fantasy has always been a means of exploring reality: it explores the fact that your internal life, your dreams and the weird images and the things that come to you are things that are actually important tools for dealing with real issues.

  Tim Burton

  Dream, Real, Mean

  "Tim Burton Q&A for Alice in Wonderland". Interview with Marc Lee, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 4, 2010.

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• I like fantasy. I like worlds where sometimes you need the special effects to make it come alive, but it's not so fun acting it.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Fun, Special, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• It was Sci-Fi and fantasy that got me reading, and Sci-Fi writers in particular have pack rat minds. They introduce all sorts of interesting themes and ideas into their books, and so for me it was a short leap to go from the fantasy and Sci-Fi genres to folklore, mythology, ancient history and philosophy. I did not read philosophy because I set out to become a philosopher; I read it because it looked interesting.

  Terry Pratchett

  Philosophy, Book, Reading

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• All the material is fictional and develops its own eight and a half private, coelesced journeys, where, perhaps not unexpectedly, the females can run faster than the men and trade their freedoms by exhausting the male sexual fantasies and replacing them by some of their own.

  Peter Greenaway

  Running, Journey, Men

  Peter Greenaway (1999). “Eight and a half women”, Dis Voir Editions

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• A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there.

  Amy Hempel

  Love, Affair, Instance

  Amy Hempel (2010). “The Dog of the Marriage: Stories”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• In the past, love for me has always meant forever, and sure, you still nurse some of those fantasies, but I don't try to force it anymore. I hung on to my fairy-tale ideals for a long time. But where I am now, what I've been through, there are no rules. There are lots of ways it can turn out.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Past, Years, Nurse

  "Jennifer Lopez and Casper Smart Split" by Lesley Messer, abcnews.go.com. June 06, 2014.

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