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I fell in love with David Bowie in 'Labyrinth'. That's probably the initial fantasy movie that I saw and fell in love with.
- Lauren Schmidt Hissrich
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Lots of times when you watch anime, the characters all have white skin - all the characters in fantasy stories all have white skin, which I never liked.
- Shinichiro Watanabe
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I think when you're young, being in love for the first time is like this fantasy.
- Noah Centineo
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I find the comic book audience a lot more intense than the fantasy one, definitely.
- Finn Jones
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The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel.
- Kate Forsyth
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I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.
- Billy Crudup
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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
- Lloyd Alexander
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Urban Fantasy is a subgenre pretty much designed for teenagers. It's pretty twee, but I adore it. I've been trying to come up with an Urban Fantasy comic ever since I'd read the Nancy Collins 'Sonja Blue' series years ago.
- Ted Naifeh
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My favorite Kanye album is 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.'
- Sasheer Zamata
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Fantasy isn't something I put into the pictures; I don't try and inject them with a sense of play. But it's about being an honest photographer; a photograph is as much of a mirror of the photographer as it is the subject.
- Tim Walker
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Fantasy is the tendency of Americans, going back to colonial times, to look at the Middle East as a type of fractured mirror of the United States - a type of mirror that could look a lot more like the United States, if, say, a Middle Eastern George Washington would emerge.
- Michael Oren
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I didn't want to write a pure fantasy novel, though I love those and grew up on J. R. R. Tolkien and Ursula LeGuin.
- Jeff Giles
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Horror is edgier. Dark fantasy feels mushier to me. Finding the difference - it's an instinct. And they overlap a lot.
- Ellen Datlow
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My wife and I have always thought it odd that, on social occasions, couples play the 'hot tub fantasy' game where you're allowed to pick a celebrity you'd like to share a hot tub with.
- Lee Mack
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But to me, 'Worlds' is meant as kind of an appreciation of fiction and stories and escapism and fantasy.
- Porter Robinson
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Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.
- Noel Fielding
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Playing football and being a tight end scoring points, it's awesome to see so many members throughout the United States join to play fantasy football, to expand the sport, to make the game more interesting while you're watching.
- Rob Gronkowski
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Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it.
- George R. R. Martin
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I read anything and everything. Comfort food for my brain is fantasy fiction or science fiction.
- Sonali Bendre
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I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.
- Gale Anne Hurd
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It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.
- Julie Burchill
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If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.
- David Gemmell
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Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The Child Garden' is exquisite and utterly beguiling. Mervyn Peake's 'Gormenghast' trilogy is an astonishing piece of multi-faceted storytelling. So quality of writing does not condemn the genre.
- David Gemmell
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This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.
- David Gemmell
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Fantasy football is good for the fans and good for the game.
- Jason Witten
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For those of you looking for your action-packed read, check out 'Red Queen' by Victoria Aveyard and 'Vengeance Road' by Erin Bowman. One's a fantasy and one's a Western, but they both feature strong leading ladies and some harrowing twists!
- Alexandra Bracken
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I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world.
- Mary Lynn Rajskub
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As a kid, I harbored this fantasy of starting a company. I looked at the entrepreneur column in Forbes. I looked at it every month and thought, 'I want to be that guy.'
- Jeremy Stoppelman
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'Primeval' is very similar to 'Footballers' Wives' - it's pure fantasy.
- Laila Rouass
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The idea of a film staying in theaters for a year is something of a fantasy today.
- Henry Thomas
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I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene.
- Maggie Gyllenhaal
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I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it.
- Bill Plympton
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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.
- Paul Walker
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Honestly, I'm living my fantasy. It's being with my family, preferably on a snowy afternoon with a fire going, cuddled up in blankets, playing a game.
- Meredith Vieira
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In my job, the not working is real and the actual work is just fantasy.
- Sacha Dhawan
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I've always been a huge fantasy fan. I was always interested in fairy tales and anything with magic or dragons... I was always drawn to those types of stories.
- Sarah J. Maas
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I really don't care about fantasy football.
- Teddy Bridgewater
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Ray Bradbury's connections to fantasy, space, cinema, to the macabre and the melancholy, were all born of his years spent running, jumping, galloping through the woods, across the fields, and down the brick-paved streets of Waukegan.
- Sam Weller
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People often ask me if fantasy is about escapism, and I personally don't think it is.
- Lauren Schmidt Hissrich
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I mean, I am my own fantasy.
- Marc Bolan
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With 'Fantasy Factory,' I want to take skating beyond the Tony Hawk generation and represent the street-skating generation.
- Rob Dyrdek
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I still tend to read more urban fantasy and romance than science-fiction, but every once in a while, a couple of books will come along and knock my socks off.
- Shiloh Walker
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I have no regrets of fighting for four years to get 'Sordid Lives' on the small screen. It was a fantasy. I mean, I got to work with amazing actors like Rue McClanahan!
- Del Shores
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Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.
- James Earl Jones
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Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.
- Robin Wright
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Building on the work of George Macdonald, William Morris and Edward Plunkett, what became known as high fantasy was more or less invented by J. R. R. Tolkien.
- Adrian McKinty
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But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elements and how people relate when they're in a dire situation or comedic situation.
- Fisher Stevens
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You can't have whatever you want. But to a child who must ask permission for every single thing, adulthood looks like a constant parade of every desire's satisfaction. It is a heady and terrifying place. It is the Otherworld. It is Fairyland. In fantasy, we make this literal.
- Catherynne M. Valente
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In the fantasy, sci-fi world, the fans are so discerning and they're so tough and they're so intelligent, and they're so critical.
- Scott Bakula
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I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up.
- Maya Rudolph
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It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy.
- Diana Wynne Jones
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I think one of things is that all fantasy it seems to me works the way your brain basically works. This is perhaps a startling concept, but I think it's true.
- Diana Wynne Jones
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Fantasy isn't something you run out of.
- Nancy Friday
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We have witnessed Chernobyl, Bhopal, Challenger, Seveso, Amoco Cadiz, Three Mile Island and have still not wakened from our fantasy that large organizations can carry out complex technologies on a huge scale with total perfection.
- Donella Meadows
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Everyone seems to be fleeing from the responsibilities that come from being who you are. I think that is why the blogosphere is thriving. It allows people to develop a fantasy self.
- Lee Siegel
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I actually enjoy the fantasy world quite a bit. You have no boundaries.
- Ramin Djawadi
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I think fantasy thrillers excite audiences as, inherently, people have a fascination for the unknown and the unexplained.
- Krystle D'Souza
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I secretly harbor the fantasy of becoming an action star at any moment. I know I'd be great at it.
- Elizabeth Banks
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I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.
- Patrick Troughton
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What's interesting to me is how many vampire/urban fantasy authors are writing young adult series as well, often set in the same world as their adult books, but focused on a younger audience.
- Carrie Vaughn
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I didn't plan to write YA - I had a story that simply wasn't working as a straight-up fantasy novel.
- Carrie Vaughn
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My parents are both huge science-fiction and fantasy fans - I was fed it.
- Carrie Vaughn
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Everyone likes fantasy to get away from everyday life, but I think 'Game of Thrones' is not like fairies and unicorns. It's very relatable to everyday life. It's not too fantastic - just a little bit.
- Kristian Nairn
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I've spoken often of how the fantasy genre is able to, with the greatest freedom among all the genres, take a metaphor and make it real. But of course that's only the starting point.
- Steven Erikson
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My biggest fantasy was to have a pie thrown in my face, and I always said whoever did that, that's the guy I'd marry.
- Sarah Shahi
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The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.
- Paolo Bacigalupi
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
- Gail Carriger
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I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
- Gail Carriger
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As for genre, my adult books are usually filed under science fiction / fantasy, although some stores put them into romance, and few have stuck them into horror. I consider all my books a mix of steampunk and urban fantasy.
- Gail Carriger
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I'm passionate about fantasy movies. I'm passionate about comic book movies. I'm passionate about superheroes. And movies about vengeance. And all of that - the stuff that I grew up reading.
- Josh Keaton
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Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience - to see something that's not nighttime fantasy. People watch daytime because it's like their lives.
- Erika Slezak
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I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.
- Jennifer Connelly
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Arsene Wenger has not just brought success to Arsenal. He is a very creative manager, producing almost fantasy football.
- Jupp Heynckes
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In a global world, nationalism is a fantasy, and it's poison. It used to be appropriate, but it's not anymore, and we haven't learned that lesson yet.
- Tim Minchin
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I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.
- Nathan Fillion
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In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.
- Jonathan Carroll
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The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.
- Sam Harris
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It felt like a pretentious fantasy to say, 'I want to be an actress.'
- Pom Klementieff
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I didn't really distinguish between genre and not-genre as a kid, until I made the transition to adult fantasy via Terry Brooks.
- Marie Brennan
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I read a lot of the 'Pern books' growing up - basically up through 'All the Weyrs of Pern,' maybe a couple after that. As far as formative dragon influences are concerned, she's probably one of the top ones; I know I read other fantasy novels that had them, but none particularly stick in mind.
- Marie Brennan
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I honestly think anthropology is one of the most useful fields a fantasy writer can study, more so even than history.
- Marie Brennan
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A fantasy is a world where anyone fits in.
- Anya Chalotra
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I wasn't a huge fan of the fantasy genre. I love 'Harry Potter'.
- Anya Chalotra
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The time for invisible boundaries that guard the 'purity' of gaming as a niche subculture is over. The violent macho power fantasy will no longer define what gaming is all about.
- Anita Sarkeesian
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I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.
- Kevin J. Anderson
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Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.
- Jasper Fforde
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What I personally gravitate toward tends to be fantasy, medium dark - not too dark - fairy tales and sci fi. Stop-motion takes something on the page that's really dark and adds a little sweetness to it, a living toys realm.
- Henry Selick
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
- D. B. Weiss
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Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds.
- Scott Ian
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With fantasy and sci-fi, it's based in a real fandom. You're presenting to experts, and their source material is really important to them. They'll come up and ask: 'so when you turned your head slightly in that scene, what were you thinking?'
- Lena Headey
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Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.
- Jim Capaldi
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It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them.
- Matthew Modine
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As someone who has been playing 'Final Fantasy' since before I could walk on two legs, I was particularly disgusted by 'Final Fantasy XIII-2's soundtrack.
- Jason Schreier
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I never dreamed in a million years that 'The Lord of the Rings' would be nominated for an Oscar. Those types of fantasy movies never got nominations.
- Peter Jackson
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When George Graham was there they complained, harking back to better days, but I think that's a fantasy.
- Alan Hansen
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'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom.
- China Mieville
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Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.
- China Mieville
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There's nothing experimental about 'Kaashmora,' as it's a blend of fantasy and entertainment. The only experiment we did was with my makeover in the film.
- Karthi
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I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy.
- Joseph Fiennes
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Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.
- John Howe
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