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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.”

Ifs Thinking Way Should Reality Film Courses Differences Fantasy Insane Fantasy And Reality

Author:Martin Scorsese

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

Reality Fantasy Goes On Prove Contradiction Again And Again Prove It

Book:The towers of Toron

Source: The towers of Toron

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

Ifs Humans Ideas Existence Fantasy Mere Limitation Triumph Absurdity Accord Bad Ideas

Author:Anthony Daniels

“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.”

Want Giving Real Easy Common Fantasy Who You Are Versions Appreciated Give And Take Real Relationship

Author:Keri Russell

“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.”

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

Fantasy Source Draws

Author:Terry Pratchett

“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.”

Years Book Three Reading Stuff Fiction Fantasy Science Fiction Library Ran Three Years

Author:Terry Pratchett

“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.”

Mean Important Real Facts Dream Reality Fantasy Issues Tools Your Dreams Internals Exploring

Author:Tim Burton

“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.”

World Needs Sometimes Fun Acting Fantasy Alive Special Effects Special Effects

Author:Evangeline Lilly

“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.”

Mind Book Ideas Philosophy Reading Interesting Fantasy Particular Ancient Philosopher Mythology Genre Theme Leap Sci Fi Introducing Packs Rats Folklore Ancient History

Author:Terry Pratchett

“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.”

Men Running Half Fantasy Journey He Man Materials Female Trade Males Eight Faster Exhausting

Book:Eight and a half women

Source: Eight and a half women

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

Love Fantasy Affair Instance Beloved Love Affair

Book:The Dog of the Marriage: Stories

Source: The Dog of the Marriage: Stories

“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.”

Way Trying Years Kind Long Stills Different Past Turns Force Fantasy Forever Long Time Ideals Tales Fairy Just One Nurse Different Kinds Fairy Tale Hung Past Love

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“With all due respect, many in the entertainment industry are deep into mind-altering substance abuse, and when one's logic and intellectual calculating powers are replaced with dopey feel-good, fantasy-driven denial, the democratic party serves them well.”

“I leaned right over to kiss your stoney book A little jealous of the ships with whom you flirt A billion lovers with their cameras Snap to look and in my fantasy I sail beneath your skirt”

Looks Littles Book Fantasy Lovers Kissing Cameras Billions Ships Jealous Sail Flirting Snaps Skirts

Author:Andy Partridge

“Our guys working this area for a living all believe Chalabi and all those guys in their Bond Street suits are charlatans. To take them for a source of anything except a fantasy trip would be a real stretch. But it's an article of faith among those with no military experience that the Iraqi military is low-hanging fruit.”

Believe Real Would Be Guy Fantasy Streets Military Source Lows Areas Fruit Suits Articles Charlatans Military Experience

Author:Scott Ritter

“I grew up in the Valley, and I didn't know any of our neighbors. I think when you grow up like that, there's always sort of a fantasy of a place where everybody knew each other, and you had that safe sort of feeling.”

Thinking Knows Feelings Grows Fantasy Growing Up Grew Safe Grew Up Neighbor Valleys

Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and fantasies that radiate outward from the actual event.”

Reality Truth Fiction Fantasy Events Truth Is Stranger Legends Stranger Than Fiction

Author:Brock Yates

“I worked out a book which I thought was just straight science fiction -- with everything pretty much explained, and suddenly I got an idea which I thought was kind of neat for working in a mythological angle. I'm really struggling with myself. It would probably be a better book if I include it, but on the other hand I don't always like to keep reverting to it. I think what I'm going to do is vary my output, do some straight science fiction and some straight fantasy that doesn't involve mythology, and composites.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Book Ideas Hands Fiction Fantasy Struggle Science Fiction Mythology Angle Vary Neat Output Composites Reverting

Author:Roger Zelazny

“I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and fantasy, and I really don't think about these things when I'm writing. I'm just thinking about telling a story and developing my characters.”

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Author:Roger Zelazny

“The traditional American husband and father had the responsibilities-and the privileges-of playing the role of primary provider. Sharing that role is not easy. To yield exclusive access to the role is to surrender some of the potential for fulfilling the hero fantasy-a fantasy that appeals to us all. The loss is far from trivial.”

Father Easy Loss Responsibility Roles Fantasy Hero Husband Privilege Access Surrender Traditional Primaries Appeals Yield Fulfilling Exclusive Providers Husband And Father

Author:Faye J Crosby

“The rationalism of the creative minds was tempered by abundant fantasies, and the supreme beauty of the monuments was probably spoiled by the circumambient vanities and ugliness; in a few cases the Greeks came as close to perfection as it was possible to do, yet they were human and imperfect.”

Mind Humans Cases Fantasy Creative Perfection Supreme Vanity Greek Imperfect Ugliness Monument Spoiled Rationalism Creative Mind

Book:Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece

Source: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece

“I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels.”

Believe I Believe Fantasy Novel Lifetime Bottom Exposure Maximum Spanking Fantasy Novels

Author:James Nicoll

“Most of what I do is science fiction. Some of the things I do are fantasy. I don't like the labels, they're marketing tools, and I certainly don't worry about them when I'm writing. They are also inhibiting factors; you wind up not getting read by certain people, or not getting sold to certain people because they think they know what you write. You say science fiction and everybody thinks Star Wars or Star Trek.”

People Thinking Knows Writing War Certain Stars Fiction Worry Fantasy Wind Tools Science Fiction Marketing Factors Labels

Author:Octavia Butler

“There are details within details within details to anchor you in the fact that we are talking about the real world, not an illustrated children's book fantasy world.”

World Children Book Real Facts Talking Fantasy Details Real World Anchors Children's Books Fantasy Worlds

Author:Joe Rohde

“I've been involved with Fantasy Football for more than 10 years now, and I'll keep competing each year as long as I'm still having fun. I like to play sports, and I like to compete, but I also have a wife and three daughters. This lets me stay involved with the sport I love and still spend quality time with my family too.”

Years Long Stills Play Three Fun Sports Quality Fantasy Wife Football Involved Daughter My Family Let Me Having Fun Competing Quality Time Three Daughters Fantasy Football

Author:Stevie Richards

“Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities?”

Self Dream Artist Fantasy Serving Our Dreams Pretense Self Serving

Book:The Hero: Myth, Image, Symbol

Source: The Hero: Myth, Image, Symbol

“Fashion is, perhaps by necessity, in a world of its own - one that only rarely overlaps with anything resembling real life. This fantasy and exoticism is part of its appeal, of course.”

World Real Courses Fantasy Fashion Real Life Appeals

Author:Vince Aletti

“You cannot do silhouettes in fantasy. Ah, no, you must be faithful. It is, the art, a, what you call, paradox. It is always that you must be simple, and then, if you are simple, you will stimulate the imagination of the observer.”

Ifs Art Imagination Simple Fantasy Simplicity Faithful Paradox Observers Being Faithful Silhouettes

Author:Ugo Mochi

“I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense novel. Genres are mostly useful as a marketing tool, and to help booksellers known where to shelve a book.”

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Author:Elizabeth Hand

“As a child I used to watch clouds, and in them, see faces, castles, animals, dragons, and giants. It was a world of escape--fantasy; something to inject wonder and adventure into the mundane, regulated life of a middle-class boy leading a middle-class life.”

World Children Faces Used Animal Wonder Class Boys Watches Fantasy Middle Adventure Clouds Giants Middle Class Dragons Castles Mundane Middle Class Life

Author:Barry B. Longyear

“I try not to do the fantasy thing. If I didn't get hurt, what would I be? Who knows? When I look back on my career, from the hard work I put in, I got everything I deserved.”

Ifs Knows Trying Looks Hard Hurt Careers Fantasy Hard Work

Author:Gilbert Arenas

“I loved fairy tales as a kid. I've always been drawn to fantasy. They're always exciting. There's never a dull moment. I just love the embellishments and the magical stuff. It's such fun to work with and to re-imagine your own way.”

Way Moments Kids Fun Stuff Fantasy Imagine Exciting Tales Fairy Dull Fairy Tale Embellishment

Author:Gail Carson Levine

“Now that I had actually made love, more astonishingly now that I had been made love to, the fantasies were subtly undermined.”

Made Fantasy

Book:The folding star

Source: The folding star

“I have a lot of fantasies about being tied up and spanked. I suppose it isn't very liberated, is it? What kind of fantasies do feminists have?”

Kind Fantasy Feminist Tied Liberated Tied Up

Author:J. F. Lawton

“I go to Las Vegas--or at least I went to Las Vegas--because even though I knew everything that was sinister, calculating, and evil about it, I loved Las Vegas. Only in Vegas could I dare to fantasize that I was a Friend of Frank. Or that I was throwing the dice at Dino's favorite table. Or that I might luck out and sip bourbon with Rickles after his last lounge show. The D.I. oozed that kind of heady fantasy.”

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Author:Marc Cooper

“When adults come together to form an intimate relationship, each person releases into it unresolved issues from their trans-generational pool of unconscious fantasies. Partners are often chosen to actualize certain potentialities for each other, and the unborn baby becomes party to their drama.”

Source: Pregnancy: The Inside Story

“Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.”

Art Imagination Creativity Fantasy Former Latter Daydreaming

Author:Fausto Cercignani

“A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are meaningless. What you call individual rights are merely the cultural fantasy of a failed civilization.”

Source: Blade of Tyshalle

“For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of "zero tolerance" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug addiction to lousy teaching can be solved by pouring on the punishment. Even without a Commander in Chief who pledges to rid the world of evildoers, smoke them out of their holes and the like, we would be vulnerable to the temptation to brush aside frustrating complexities and relieve intolerable fear (at least for the moment) by settling on one or more scapegoats to crush. To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.”

“Don't accuse anyone with the temerity to question your sad supernatural fantasies of having a 'closed mind' or being 'blind to possibilities'. A closed mind asks no questions, unthinkingly accepting that which it wants to believe. The blindness is all yours.”

Want Mind Believe Asks Accepting Fantasy Possibility Blind Blindness Closed Mind

Author:Charlie Brooker

“To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly inconceivable fantasy.”

Feels Seems Fantasy Infinite Patterns Explanation Melody

Author:Isak Dinesen

“Fantasy is an 'F' word that hopefully the five second delay won't do anything with.”

Fantasy Five Hopefully Delay

Author:Peter Jackson

“The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the aesthetic of undermining and creative alienation that I really go for.”

Reason Fantasy Creative Horror Science Fiction Wings Aesthetic Alienation Surrealism Undermining Pulp

Author:China Mieville

“I know for a fact that this idea of the Jews causing the war and the Jews being so all important is nonsense. But that was Hitler's idea, and...was pure fantasy. As I say, Hitler is a riddle to me and will always remain so.”

Knows Important Ideas War Facts Fantasy Pure Jew Nonsense Riddle

Author:Joachim von Ribbentrop

“In reality, a person questioning the existence of the Satanic conspiracy is merely pointing out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. In that case, one can understand why the emperor's tailors get upset and suggest the person doing the pointing is a tool of the devil. Then the question comes down to one of whether the crowd will believe the evidence they have before them, or if they will buy into the tailors' fantasies.”

Ifs Believe Persons Reality Existence Cases Fantasy Clothes Devil Evidence Tools Crowds Upset Conspiracy Questioning Pointing Emperor Satanic Tailors

Author:Michael A. Stackpole

“Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.”

Artist Imagination Fantasy Taste Enormous Composition Good Taste Scientific Knowledge

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.”

Cases Fantasy Worst Horror Genre Scenarios Worst Case Scenario

Author:Brian K. Vaughan

“The reinvention of American culture as purely the self catapulted Las Vegas to prominence. The city took sin and made it choice -- a sometimes ambiguous choice, but choice nonetheless. Combined with a visionary approach to experience that melded Hollywood and Americans' taste for comfort and self-deception, Las Vegas grew into the last American frontier city, as foreign at times as Prague but as quintessential as Peoria. In Las Vegas, you can choose your fantasy; in the rest of America, you don't always get to pick.”

“Ultimately, all I wanted was for players to feel like they were in the real world. I wanted them to be able to apply real world common sense to the problems confronting them, and I thought recreating real world locations would encourage that kind of thinking. There's also just a real power, a real thrill, when you fire up a game and see a place you've been or want to go, and then get to do all the stuff you WANT to do there but know you'll get arrested if you try! If that isn't the stuff of fantasy - far more than exploring some goofy dwarven mine or alien spaceship - I don't know what is!”

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