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• We are a nation of physical animals who have forgotten how much we enjoy being that. We are cushioned by this kind of make-believe, unreal world and have no idea what we can survive because we are never challenged or tested.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Believe, Animal, Ideas

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• I have always loved reading. Ever since I was a young girl I had a book by my bed and would get lost in the world of make believe.

  Lauren Conrad

  Girl, Believe, Book

  EY Interview, hillsfreak.blogspot.com. March 13, 2012.

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• There is need for some kind of make-believe in order to face death unflinchingly. To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for.

  Eric Hoffer

  Death, Real, Believe

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• To sit on the front steps — whether it's a veranda in a small town or a concrete stoop in a big city — and to talk to our neighborhoods is infinitely more important than to huddle on the living-room lounger and watch a make-believe world in not-quite living color.

  Harvey Milk

  Believe, Color, Cities

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• It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play, that the greatest change is evident. In the place of traditional, sometimes ancient childhood games that were still popular a generation ago, in the place of fantasy and make- believe play . . . today's children have substituted television viewing and, most recently, video games.

  Marie Winn

  Children, Believe, School

  Marie Winn (1983). “Children Without Childhood”, New York : Pantheon Books

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• I'm a lucky guy. I get to sit around every day and indulge in make believe and get paid for it.

  Garrison Keillor

  Believe, Indulge In, Guy

  Source: jonathanlowe.wordpress.com

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• In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Religion, Balance, Church

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.92, BookBaby

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• Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.

  Patrick MacGill

  Workout, Believe, Exercise

  MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.37, Read Books Ltd

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• In a world where celebrity equals talent, and where make-believe is called reality, it is most important to have real love, truth and stability in your life.

  Bernie Brillstein

  Real, Believe, Important

  Bernie Brillstein, David Rensin (2004). “It's All Lies and That's the Truth: and 49 More Rules from 50 Years of Trying to Make a Living in Hollywood”, p.4, Penguin

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• Falling in love with love
  Is falling for make-believe.

  Lorenz Hart

  Falling In Love, Believe, Love Is

  "Falling in Love with Love" (song) (1938)

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• Horror films are art, it's all make believe. It's great if a filmmaker can try to push boundaries and see how much an audience can take and see what happens. It's fun to be able to do that.

  Tom Six

  Art, Fun, Believe

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Tact, the kind of tact you should cultivate, is not a form of deception or make-believe, but a cultivated taste which gives fine perception in seeing and doing what is best under all circumstances. There is nothing which will so readily bring you into favor, or disarm an opponent, as the right use of tact.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Believe, Giving, Deception

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• I think that movies are really fake; they should be fake. I don't think my way is any better than anybody else's way, but I know they're not real. I like to lean into the make-believe aspect of movies. That's why they're better than real life.

  Steven Conrad

  Real, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Westerns are fun. I wish more of them would be made. When you're out there on a set, carrying a gun, riding a horse, you kind of get lost in that make believe world.

  Ricky Schroder

  Horse, Fun, Believe

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• If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you'll get a rough picture of what life in a corporation is like.

  Lee Iacocca

  Block, Believe, Class

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• All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's make-believe, it nevertheless is coming out of the deepest recesses of myself.

  Paul Auster

  Believe, Character, Fiction

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 5, 2009.

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• Novelists are people who have discovered that they can dampen their neuroses by writing make-believe. We will keep on doing that no matter what, while offering loftier explanations.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Believe, Writing, Offering

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• I've said that movies are the highest stakes make-believe game in the world, and this is truly the most highest stakes.

  Channing Tatum

  Believe, Games, World

  Source: collider.com

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• Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself - a game of make-believe, or re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Believe, Eye

  Willa Cather (1988). “Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art”, p.125, U of Nebraska Press

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• There is no make-believe about heaven, future bliss, and compensation, to alleviate the bitter majesty, but only utter darkness, the void of unfulfillment, to receive and eat back the lives that have been tossed forth from the womb only to fail.

  Joseph Campbell

  Believe, Heaven, Darkness

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.20, New World Library

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• I've always felt that acting is acting at the end of the day, so whether you're doing comedy or heavy drama or anything else in between, you always have to bring a semblance of honesty to it. It's all make believe.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Honesty, Drama, Believe

  Source: collider.com

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• Having children has helped me become a better actor because they remind you to play make believe. It's the ease and naturalness of their beings. They just play and it's completely real for them at the time. As an actor, if we do it well, we make you believe.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Children, Real, Believe

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• Regarding green screen, green screen is really like doing some stage work. You have to make believe that there is a window, make believe that something is there that is really not there and convince the audience. It's part of acting.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Believe, Acting, Green

  "Benicio del Toro Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 9, 2010.

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• I like playing make-believe. And my brothers do it with me, so its fun. Its almost better than chocolate ice cream.

  Madylin Sweeten

  Brother, Fun, Believe

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• Where our knowledge of beauty harmonizes with the ludus naturae, sorcery begins.No, not spoon-bending or horoscopy, not the Golden Dawn or make-believe shamanism, astral projection or the Satanic Mass--if it's mumbo jumbo you want go for the real stuff, banking, politics, social science--not that weak blavatskian crap.

  Hakim

  Real, Believe, Dawn

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