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“Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.”

Artist Fantasy Periods Disease Critics Brands Hips Sixty Cult Transforming Curator

Author:Jerry Saltz

“I think over the course of 14 films, I'm returning to a place that I know to tell a story... the same way Spielberg returned to fantasy, Lucas returned to the 'Star Wars' saga, or John Ford returned to the western.”

Thinking Knows Way War Stories Film Courses Stars Fantasy Western Saga

Author:Gus Van Sant

“I had this fantasy that in a democracy the government was the population. So I came to America and got a big slap in my face... Americans were not what I thought. I thought I was going to see bastards and I saw nice people, very friendly to me.”

People Bigs Government America Faces Fantasy Democracy Saws Nice Population Friendly Slap Nice People

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?”

Should Ideas Different Fantasy Subjects Inspire Strange Poet Guilty Flames Treatment Composer

Author:Franz Schubert

“I do have a fantasy life in which I can grout bathrooms - but not for a living.”

I Can Fantasy Bathroom Fantasy Life

Author:Will Self

“We all get stuck. We all lose ourselves a little bit in a fantasy or in our jobs and forget how we feel about other things. It's really important to check yourself, to spend some time alone.”

Feels Littles Important Jobs Bits Loses Forget Fantasy Little Bit Stuck Checks Alone Time Amanda Check Yourself

Author:Amanda Seyfried

“I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.”

Bits Fiction Fantasy Fans Huge Horror Science Fiction Scared Science Fiction And Fantasy

Author:Michael Sheen

“My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.”

Ends Running Film Fiction Fantasy Drama Taste Lows Science Fiction Budgets

Author:Michael Sheen

“You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I'm given. Because when one can control things, one is limited to one's own vision.”

Knows World I Can Given Vision Fantasy Grace Kitchen Kitchen Sinks

Author:Kiki Smith

“In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons.”

Different Real Reason Black Community White Fantasy Comedy Jokes Real Life Boards Neighborhood Appreciated

Author:Will Smith

“Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.”

People Stills Book Joy Reading Fantasy Missing Reading Books Cambridge Posh

Author:Zadie Smith

“Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.”

Wells Fantasy Animation

Author:Steven Spielberg

“That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain.”

Knows Years Brain Fantasy Decided Studios Finished Touring

Author:Ringo Starr

“About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.”

Half Fantasy Fashion Design Percent Madness Bread Controlled Fashion Designer Bread And Butter Fashion Design

Author:Manolo Blahnik

“One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.”

Has Beens Film Fantasy India Cameras Access Campaigns Granted Iran Crossings Back In Time Persia Go Back In Time

Author:Oliver Stone

“I am sensual and very physical. I'm very erotic. But my sexuality exists on a sort of a fantasy level.”

Levels Fantasy Sexuality Sensual Erotic

Author:Donna Summer

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”

Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

“Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.”

Life Wisdom Fantasy Anger Affair Rings Subtle Fellowship Wizards Dresden Harry Dresden Meddling Fellowship Of The Ring Middle Earth Lord Of The Ring Fantasy Novels

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.”

Has Beens Play Whole Character Careers Fantasy Childhood Soldier Fulfilling Fatherhood Knights Larger Than Life

Author:Orlando Bloom

“Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.”

Firsts Real Earth Film Class Fantasy Audience Imagine Journey Middle Flight Cinema Be You Imagine That Tickets First Class Middle Earth Fantasy Films

Author:Orlando Bloom

“Stop doing things that waste time. Don't replace time with your family or things that you need to do. I needed to put together two fantasy teams this weekend because that's something I enjoy, but I did stop playing Nintendo Wii for hours on end.”

Needs Two Ends Together Enjoy Hours Fantasy Team Needed Waste Wasting Time Weekend Nintendo Wii

Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“I have an airplane hangar with 17 cars in it. That's no joke. I have a 'half pipe' in there, too - you know, like a big ramp, where I skateboard. It's awesome. It's the ultimate fantasy.”

Knows Bigs Half Fantasy Car Jokes Ultimate Airplane Pipe Ramp

Author:Paul Walker

“Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.”

Love Two Reality Love Is Fantasy Opposites Exciting Attraction Commercial Art Polar Opposites Two Opposites Fantasy Love

Book:The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

“The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.”

Two Fantasy Opposites Exciting Attraction Commercial Art Polar Opposites Complete Opposites Two Opposites Reality Of Love Fantasy Love

Book:The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

“My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute.”

Ifs Children Real Play Home Would Be Millions Fantasy Rings Noses Festivals Mobile Hippie Flutes Hippi Dreadlocks

Author:Rachel Weisz

“I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called my name from the stage. 'Dookie' was the first album I ever bought. I covered the whole of 'Nimrod' and he'd heard it. That was like the 11-year-old girl dreamed.”

Years Firsts Whole Girl Names Fantasy Heard Stage Goes On Green Albums Covered

Author:Florence Welch

“I love fantasy. I love horror. I love musicals. Whatever doesn't really happen in life is what I'm interested in. As a way of commenting on everything that does happen in life, because ultimately the only thing I'm really interested in is people.”

People Way Doe Happens Life Is Fantasy Horror

Author:Joss Whedon

“We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.”

Reality Fantasy Endure

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.”

People Ifs World Want Feels Real Actors Acting Fantasy Honest Figures Fine Being Honest Breasts Being Real Plastic Feel Better Surgery Plastic Surgery Implants Fantasy Worlds Breast Implants

Author:Kate Winslet

“I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, 'OK, this is what I'm going to do for a living and I'm going to be Weird Al.'”

Said Stars Fantasy Rocks Singing Mirrors Als Bathroom Rock Star Weird Al

Author:Al Yankovic

“I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.”

Way Science Understanding Technology Fantasy Easier Myth Internals Intuitive Science And Technology Folklore

Author:Sarah Zettel

“I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.”

Believe Made Dream Reality I Believe Fantasy Rich Vip

Author:Rachel Zoe

“I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.”

Want Writing Challenges Fantasy Novel Wilderness Fantasy Novels

Author:Felicia Day

“Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.”

Way Should Firsts Real Fantasy Childhood First Time Fulfillment Asia Southeast Asia South Asia

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. In my little room at home, I felt that I was somewhere else. In Paris, for instance.”

Littles Home Dream Felt Rooms Fantasy Dresses Instance Paris Somewhere Else Sketching

Author:Alber Elbaz

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

World War Literature Brain Fantasy Cruelty War Of The Worlds Toxic

Book:Bowen's Court & Seven Winters

Source: Bowen's Court & Seven Winters

“Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.”

Kind Film Actors Imagination Fantasy Directors Hatred Majority Settling Locked Layers

Author:Danny Boyle

“Most of my short stories are fantasy.”

Stories Fantasy Short Story

Author:Ray Bradbury

“I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I'm researching and writing.”

Writing I Can Belief Hours Fantasy Environment Week Months Breathe Aspiration Forty Topics Indulge Eighteen Transport Unwind Happy Place Business Environment

Author:Ashwin Sanghi

“Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'”

Long Has Beens War Stories Stars Fiction Fantasy Shadow Science Fiction Genre Hybrid Fiction Stories

Author:Brian K. Vaughan

“I started making houses for ants because I thought they needed somewhere to live. Then I made them shoes and hats. It was a fantasy world I escaped to where my dyslexia didn't hold me back and my teachers couldn't criticize me. That's how my career as a micro-sculptor began.”

World Made House Careers Fantasy Teacher Needed Shoes Hats Criticize Ants Sculptors Hold Me Fantasy Worlds Dyslexia

Author:Willard Wigan

“Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.”

Soul Fantasy Brighter Porcelain

Author:Pat Conroy

“His laughter echoed through my mind. I have a beautiful woman in my arms, and am taking her back to my home, where she and I will be alone and able to indulge whatever fantasies we choose. What is there not to enjoy?”

Mind Home Able Beautiful Enjoy Fantasy Arms Laughter Indulge Beautiful Women

Author:Katie MacAlister

“the year she had run fleetly through the dewy grass under the moon- the night of wine, when dreams condensed out of thin air like the nightmilk of fantasy.”

Years Dream Running Night Fantasy Air Moon Wine Grass Thin Air

Book:The Stand

Source: The Stand

“I never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women.”

Littles Strong Fantasy Craving Little Women

Author:Anne Lamott

“Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.”

Ifs Reason Lying Simple Fantasy Flight Dimensions Convincing Disney Company

Author:Walt Disney

“In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos.”

Soul Dream Faces Spirit Vision Fantasy Divine Daughter Mythology Greek Mythology Lifting Radiance Maidens Opium Airy

Book:Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Source: Tales of Mystery and Imagination

“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”

Science Fantasy Too Much Drug Discworld Small Gods Good Omens

Book:Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)

Source: Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)

“It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant technologies devoted to trivia like instant cameras and space spectaculars that should have stayed in the pages of Science Fiction . . . some of the last Presidents of the U.S.A. seemed to have been recruited straight from Disneyland.”

“Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.”

Ifs Memories Fantasy Legends Triviality

Book:Nowhere Man

Source: Nowhere Man

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