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There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

Quote by Ralph Fiennes about writers, world

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about risk, commerce, writers

The folk-origin of ballads and the multiple authorship of epics are heresies worse than the futilities of the Baconians; at any rate, they are based on the same resolute omission, and build on it a wilder fantasy.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about origin

It's a fantasy that we could have a president who could actually make choices based on what's right, rather than having to weigh the political fallout. But that's sort of what we're showing. And you can dream.

Quote by Geena Davis about dream, rightness

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a...

Quote by Eminem about school, home, life

There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the...

There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.

Quote by Sean Connery about things

I think a bit of me on the Harry Potter set is like a kid...

I think a bit of me on the Harry Potter set is like a kid sort of entering into the fantasy set when You're young.

Quote by Ralph Fiennes

I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that...

I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.

Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev about purpose

Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy...

Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.

Quote by Dustin Hoffman about myth

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real...

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.

Quote by Grace Jones about art, magic, real estate, people

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come...

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

Quote by Paracelsus about dream, inspiration

Every person should have their escape route planned. I think everyone has an apocalypse fantasy, what would I do in the event of the end of the world, and we just basically me and Nick said what would we do, where would we head.

Quote by Simon Pegg about apocalypse, events, heads, people, end, world

Is that romantic fantasy real, um, after kids, no. Take...

Is that romantic fantasy real, um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know, depends.

Quote by Robin Wright Penn about real estate

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, ...

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

Quote by Walt Disney about opinion, nature

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The...

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

Quote by Jean Iris Murdoch about reality, world, life

When I started writing this, I found that I simply...

When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.

Quote by Piers Anthony about literature, writing

I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the worlds and the characters.

Quote by Margaret Weis about opinion, artists, fiction, science

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

Quote by Giacomo Girolamo Casanova De Seingalt about love, immortality, pleasure, real estate

The game of fantasy accompanied me all my life.

The game of fantasy accompanied me all my life.

Quote by Ion Hobana about fantesy, games, life

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