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The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

At its best, fiction cultivates fantasy and compassion; at its worst, memoir provokes schadenfreude and prurience. The ugly truth, I fear, is that many people are drawn to sensational memoirs for the same reason they watch 'The Apprentice': they like to witness actual suffering, before-your-very-eyes humiliation.

Yeah, and I went straight into a fantasy world. Just stepped straight into the abyss. You know, I was gone and kids used to walk past my front room, cause I lived on the green.

I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.

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

With any sci-fi fantasy storytelling, you must have rules be very clear, otherwise you lose people, like 'OK, they can fly; now they can't fly.'

As long as we depend on other women for self-esteem, using them as bad examples or fantasy versions - special, powerful - of ourselves, they remain stuck in a narcissistic version of themselves, too.

The Perfect Dog is an enticing fantasy pooch. It's the dog that instantly learns to pee outdoors, never menaces or frightens children, plays gently with other dogs, won't jump on the UPS guy, never rolls in gross things, eats only the appropriate food at the right time, and never chews anything not meant for him. This dog does not exist.

Fantasy-based ideologies invariably have neat happy endings where all the bad people and all the bad behavior goes away when the volume is turned up and enough force is applied.

'Filk' is the folk music of the science fiction and fantasy community - you get parodies, you get traditional music that's had the words slightly modified, and you'll also get just original works that have been written about science fiction and fantasy works, or with science fiction and fantasy themes.

To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.

I always think the recipe for success for a game or any sort of a fantasy experience is to think of a character that hasn't really been explored before, who is unique and has special abilities that not everybody has, and plop them into whatever is the most interesting situation to plop them into.

Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.

That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are.

I've always liked fairy tale and spectacle. I wouldn't say I was a fantasy fan, but anything beyond reality I've always found exciting - the work of David Lynch, the work of Tim Burton. But for me, I also love those things that are absolutely about human relationships.

I was lucky enough to be able to do comedies, dramas, completely different parts. At the beginning, when you start you have a fantasy that you could be somebody else. Which is absurd. That's part of being an actor. It's your voice, it's the way you move, it's your body, even if you transform it, you play with it.

I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.

The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered.

The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.

With high fashion, it's a performance. You're trying to interpret a fantasy in a very physical way, and you really are playing a character. I've played men, dead people, famous people, historical icons, and it's no mean feat. It's quite an insular experience even though the crowd is in front of you and there's an expectation.

Thierry Mugler is about the power of glamour and walking straight into the future. He's been a god for successive generations in the fashion industry. He fused pop and high fashion, told a story in style and combined fantasy with reality.

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.

I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them.

I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now.

I think about that all of the time and I have this fantasy that I am going to work at a museum someday! I would love to do something like that!

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.

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

I don't like fantasy where a king snaps his fingers and suddenly a whole army appears and goes off to war - he's got to feed them, he's got to pay them, he's got to take care of the camp followers and the gamblers and the people who cause disorder.

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

Thank you... fantasy football draft, for letting me know that even in my fantasies, I am bad at sports.

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.

To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.

Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those truths are complex and morally difficult. It offers a different route to creating something which will resonate with readers, in a way which resists the erasure of privacy and autonomy which pervades our modern world.

One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me

I went in and auditioned for one of the main guys for 'The League' when it was first casting, and I was so excited because I was like, 'Oh my God, this is my life!' I love fantasy football, and I play with my buddies, and my wife is frustrated with it.

Ive never seen myself as a fantasy writer-ever.

When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.

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.

I'm a sci-fi guy. But I like fantasy too.

I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.

I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.

This is the fantasy of every woman - to hold at our feet servile and tame slaves, like in Roman times. And the worse we treat them, the more passionate they become.

Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.

But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.

There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.

I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy in my life. I am kind of like that at home. Do I have the full hair and makeup? No. But I might have the nice dress on.

I read all the time. I love it. My fantasy would be to be locked into a library. I'd be very, very happy.

There is magic in my universe, but it's pretty low magic compared to other fantasies.

I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.

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

I like dresses for night; I like after-party more than party. I like the mystery; I like the dream, like fantasy dresses. I think, also, that you make women dream.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

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.

There's a very fine line between one person's reality and another person's fantasy.

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

Whether you're a history buff or a fantasy fan, Druon's epic will keep you turning pages. This was the original game of thrones. If you like 'A Song of Ice and Fire', you will love 'The Accursed Kings'.

Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre.

I suppose when I was writing 'V for Vendetta' I would in my secret heart of hearts have thought: 'Wouldn't it be great if these ideas actually made an impact?' So when you start to see that idle fantasy intrude on the regular world... It's peculiar.

The technocracy of professional sport has managed to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute strength: a soccer that negates joy, kills fantasy and outlaws daring.

I played one year of fantasy football in high school. You really get into it. It makes more fans of the NFL, and people love talking about it. They'll come up to me and say, 'Why did you throw an interception? You ruined my fantasy team!' Or they're happy because they got you for a bargain.

While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.

I had to say no to 'Fantasy Island' back when I was doing 'Bosom Buddies.'

People say to me, 'Are you still excited when you go on tour?' Should I be excited about leaving my family? No, and no one should. It's as simple as that. If you put aside the fantasy of it, it is what it is and has to be done. And that's fine, and I pour my entire energy and enthusiasm into it, but of course, I'm of two minds about the whole idea.

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.

I always had this New York fantasy of living in a glass high-rise.

I did a 'Love Boat!' And based on my trip on the 'Love Boat,' I said, 'I'd just as soon not do 'Fantasy Island.''

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

What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.

A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.

Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value, but psychologists say it is a fantasy based on ruling-class ego and guilt.

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.

I do get invitations all of the time to play actual fantasy football, by the way, but I get the feeling that I'd like it too much. I have enough demands on my time. My fans would kill me.

The fantasy I've always had is that somehow I could move back in time. I would like to be there when Susan B. Anthony was dying, or someone like that. I would say to her, 'You won't believe what's going to happen.' And then I would tell her.

Streaking through a large crowd has always been a secret fantasy of mine.

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

When I was growing up, there were so many musicals you could watch. I like the fantasy of musicals and I love music.

I think there is a long exploration in American drama of women in particular who, by force of circumstances or because they are predisposed to, choose fantasy over reality.

The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.

I know people sometimes have this fantasy about Cornwall. But the Cornish are so grounded.

When you talk to people who play, the fantasy-baseball player tends to be more ardent than the fantasy-football player. Baseball is a game that is played every day, and baseball as a game in fantasy has so many more permutations than does fantasy football.

Whether the NFL wants to admit it, betting is also a part of why people watch football, ... I think fantasy football is probably a variation of that.

When we get the main part of Fantasy Island under control, then we can turn our direction to do something that would accommodate the novice rider. But right now, nothing's settled.

What's not to like? I love fantasy books. I love magic and dragons.

With 'The Mummy' it was a fantasy action adventure. You get taken away for a few hours and come out and feel revamped and ready to go into the world and enjoy your next day at work.

I have all these weird fantasies. Going coast-to-coast on my motorcycle and having random barbecues all over America. No show, no nothing.

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

I shoot fantasy. If you want reality, ride the bus

I draw on my memories but blended with a lot of fantasy...

Fashion is magical, a fantasy. It's madness, and it doesn't last. It's changing all the time.

The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us.

The Magician's Land is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade.

Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.

I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.

One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at its best completely its own end and also metaphorically and symbolically laden.

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.

In the recession people are going to be looking even more at what movie stars are wearing, as it provides a fantasy outlet.