#fantasies

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#define #eaten #fantasies #i #into

I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character. ↗

— Joel Edgerton

#boyhood #character #digging #fantasies #getting

I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear - I don't need people feeding their fantasies into my vision. ↗

— Lydia Lunch

#brain #clear #fantasies #feeding #hear

Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation. ↗

— Alice Miller

#child #childhood #desperate #disease #fantasies

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

— Marilyn Monroe

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I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#avoid #avoiding #encouraged #ever #fantasies

I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet nudity and male fantasies have become emblematic of my work. ↗

— Greta Scacchi

#become #element #fantasies #few #film

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while. ↗

— Anna Magnani

#exist #fantasies #great #great passions #last

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

#born #death #eternal #extinction #extraordinary

One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#actual #alexander #back #been #camera