Make Believe Quotes - Page 7

• I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.

  Laura Marling

  Jobs, Believe, Sound

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

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• There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep.

  Rich Mullins

  Believe, Sleep, Differences

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• I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

  Ruth Benedict

  Believe, World, Desperation

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.140, Transaction Publishers

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• But how ridiculous that I should bereft simply because I couldn’t spend hours in my world of make-believe! Wasn’t the reality of my life interesting enough? This is surely the time to let go of grievances, I told myself sternly. What good does it do to dwell on them? Brooding on a nest of grudges will only hatch more grief.

  Liza Dalby

  Letting Go, Grief, Believe

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• Adults trying to protect children from reality, right? And adults always trying to fill children with fantasy - the tooth fairy, Santa, make-believe games, etc. But kids are really smart, I think they know from an early age about death, this void and hole they are immediately traveling toward.

  Shane Warren Jones

  Children, Smart, Believe

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance.

  Eric Hoffer

  Real, Believe, Self

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

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• Jesus did not send us into the world to make believers but to make disciples.

  Shane Claiborne

  Jesus, World, Believer

  Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo (2012). “Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?”, p.9, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• As soon as you start doing that - changing things - it seems self-evident to me that you've entered the world of make-believe. If you pretend that it's true, and use your own name, you are misleading people. Fiction is looser and wilder and sometimes in the end more self-revealing, anyway.

  Nicholson Baker

  Believe, Names, Self

  "Nicholson Baker Navigates The Buffet". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 16, 2013.

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• According to a recent survey, kids are receiving an average of 40 cents less from the tooth fairy. That's right, the economy is so bad that even make-believe people are feeling the pinch.

  Conan O'Brien

  Believe, Kids, Average

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• I never wore a stich of make-up until I got to America. I lived in a world of fantasy it was made up of imaginary friends and make believe lovers. I was also teased a lot for being different because I was shy, solitary, distant and melancholic.

  Pamela Anderson

  Believe, America, Being Different

  Interview with Savi Kuruppu, cargocollective.com.

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• I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights.

  Lusia Strus

  Respect, Believe, Character

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  The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Quoted in Providence Journal-Bulletin, 8 June 1994

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• To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.

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• Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest on.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Believe, Roots, People

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• Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Honesty, Believe

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.97, Cambridge University Press

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• As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

  Jim Henson

  Children, Believe, Imagination

  Jim Henson (2007). “Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider”, p.49, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.

  Aldo Leopold

  Believe, Doctors, Land

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.165, Oxford University Press

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• None of us wants to admit that we hate someone... When we deny our hate we detour around the crisis of forgiveness. We suppress our spite, make adjustments, and make believe we are too good to be hateful. But the truth is that we do not dare to risk admitting the hate we feel because we do not dare to risk forgiving the person we hate.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Hate, Believe

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• I'm probably more personal when I'm acting than at any other time. More open, more direct. Because it allows me to be something that I can't always feel comfortable with when I'm living my own life, you know? Because it's make-believe.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Believe, Acting, Feels

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

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• Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

  Stephen Leacock

  Christmas, Believe, Essence

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• No to spectacle no to virtuosity no to transformations and magic and make believe no to glamour and transcendency of the star image no to the heroic no to the anti-heroic no to trash imagery no to involvement of performer or spectator no to style no to camp no to seduction of spectator by the wiles of the performer no to eccentricity no to moving or being moved.

  Yvonne Rainer

  Stars, Believe, Moving

  Yvonne Rainer (1999). “A Woman Who--: Essays, Interviews, Scripts”, p.16, JHU Press

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• There seems to be within all of us an innate yearning to be lifted momentarily out of our own lives into the realm of charm and make believe.

  Dorothy Draper

  Life, Dream, Believe

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• Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn - and fairy tales come true. Fantasyland is dedicated to the young-in-heart, to those who that when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Stars, Believe

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