Fantasy Quotes - Page 5

• Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  War, Brain, Toxic

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “Bowen's Court & Seven Winters”, p.221, Random House

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• Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.

  Robin Wright

  Romantic, Real, Kids

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• I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.

  Suzanne Vega

  Kids, Reality, Fearless

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• I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

  Harrison Ford

  Travel, Stars, Book

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• It's my job, to create a fantasy.

  Anne Heche

  Jobs

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

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• We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Writing, Destiny

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• Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

  James Earl Jones

  Romantic, Romantic Love, Acting

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.

  Frank Langella

  Sexy, Horse, Men

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• The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.

  Shawn Ashmore

  Character, Magic, Genre

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.

  Jennifer Garner

  Hard Work, Romance, Doe

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• Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.

  Judith Krantz

  Book, Imagination, Heaven

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• There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Book, Character, Fiction

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• But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.

  Octavia Butler

  Genre Is, Problem, Sometimes

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• Everyones greatest fantasy is to walk away from the life (they think)you lead

  Pete Wentz

  Thinking, Walks

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• One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me

  Lisa Kudrow

  Years, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Lisa Kudrow from Jun 17, 2011

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• Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.

  Jim Capaldi

  Song, Pieces, Paper

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• It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy.

  Terence Stamp

  Movie, Beauty, Thinking

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• I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

  Anita Desai

  Romance, Telling The Truth, Aim

  Baruch College Class Interview, www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.

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• Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Real, Book, Home

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• When you talk about the Final Fantasy series, the series started selling better after 7, and that was the base idea for the center of the set list for the LA concert.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Ideas, Finals, Lists

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• When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting, he finds in this expression the same effect - I would even say the same picture - that he had unconsciously acquired by his habit to experience reality intensely.

  Pierre Alechinsky

  Reality, Thinking, Expression

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• So to keep a fantasy, do not peer too closely at the world; fuzzy vision suits you best. Your creative power, turned away, is aimed inside to juggle fantasies, to solve the problems of a child's intrigue.

  Arthur J. Deikman

  Children, Suits You, Creative

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• If you notice an unconscious fantasy coming up within you, you would be wise not to interpret it at once. Do not say that you know what it is and force it into consciousness. Just let it live with you, leaving it in the half-dark, carry it with you and watch where it is going or what it is driving at.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Wise, Dark, Leaving

  Marie-Louise von Franz (2017). “The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition”, p.107, Shambhala Publications

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• Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.

  George R. R. Martin

  Inspirational, Courage, Fear

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.26, Bantam

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• People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there.

  Andy Warhol

  People, Giving, Problem

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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