#fantastic

I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#amazing #america #because #conversation #defending

How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic. ↗

— Vanessa Paradis

#fantastic #how #i #many #ny times

I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for that. When I'm acting, I feel great. It's not to be famous. ↗

— Christopher Parker

#craving #emotions #famous #fantastic #feel

Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works, it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work, it's almost just as fascinating. ↗

— Julia Roberts

#almost #along #challenge #coming #communication

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#fantastic #i #prose #sophisticated #stories

Children seem to need, then, a delicate balance between the realistic and the fantastic in their art; enough of the realistic to know that the story matters, enough of the fantastic to make what matters wonderful ↗

— Eric S. Rabkin

#fantastic #fantasy #art

A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift their emphasis towards something to which they can be true; namely, certain wistful or restless moods of the human spirit, wherein it seeks to weave gossamer ladders of escape from the galling tyranny of time, space, and natural law. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#fantasy #genre #horror #supernatural #writing

Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to using their brains. ↗

— Robert Musil

#fantasy #experience

But the recurrent ambiguity of the American tale of the supernatural reveals both a fascination with the possibility of numinous experience and a perplexity about whether there was, in fact, anything numinous to be experienced. Writers often delighted in leading readers into, but not out of, the haunted dusk of the borderland. ↗

— Howard Kerr

#fantasy #horror #numinous #supernatural #experience

They say all foxes are slightly allergic to linoleum, but it's cool to the paw, try it. They say my tail needs to be dry cleaned twice a month, but now it's fully detachable, see? They say our tree may never grow back, but one day, something will. Yes, these crackles are made of synthetic goose and these giblets come from artificial squab and even these apples look fake—but at least they've got stars on them. I guess my point is, we'll eat tonight, and we'll eat together. And even in this not particularly flattering light, you are without a doubt the five and a half most wonderful wild animals I've ever met in my life. ↗

— Wes Anderson

#life