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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

~Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Topics: Acts Also Begin Dress Fantasies Imagination More Performed Plans Reality Rehearsals Than Unpleasant World

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In theory, food writing is an aid or a prelude to actual meals: you read a recipe, and then you cook. In practice - in a 'paradox' that Michael Pollan, among others, has identified - our current gastronomic fantasies, particularly on TV, have coincided with a decline in home cooking.

~Bee Wilson

Topics: Actual Aid Among Cook Cooking Current Decline Fantasies Food Home Identified Meals Michael Others Our Paradox Particularly Practice Prelude Read Recipe Then Theory Tv Writing You

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People are attracted to entertainment, for sure, or jokes, excitement and romantically heightened stories that might be false, but are still attractive fantasies.

~Bennett Miller

Topics: Attracted Attractive Entertainment Excitement False Fantasies Jokes Might People Still Stories Sure

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Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on.

~Bob Balaban

Topics: Am Began Early Exciting Fact Fantasies Immediately Know Little Maybe Me Official Place Put Them Then Until Up Very Would Your

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It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.

~Brian Perkins

Topics: After Born Death Eternal Extinction Extraordinary Face Fantasies Fantasy People True Were

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I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy.

~Brion James

Topics: Always Bad Bad Guy Fantasies Guy Hate Love Negative Out People Play Remember

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I have a series of splintered relationships. Why should I get married again? It's a miserable compromise at best. But I believe in marriage and still have fantasies about it.

~Brooke Hayward

Topics: About Again Believe Best Compromise Fantasies Get Get Married Marriage Married Miserable Relationships Series Should Still Why I Believe I Believe In

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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: America American American Life Between Culture Direct Fantasies Gap Humanities Impact Knowledge Leftist Life Little Mass Mass Media Media Our Policy Problem Professors Public Public Policy Serious Whatever Which

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In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it.

~Camryn Manheim

Topics: Always Am Bones Even Fantasies Feel Grandmother Ingenue Play Playing Reality Safe Sure Used Wanted I Am I Can

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Very much as men project weird fantasies on women, the people in New York project weird fantasies on California.

~Carolyn See

Topics: California Fantasies Men Much New New York People Project Very Weird Women York

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