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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

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

— Vanessa Paradis

#fantastic #how #i #many #ny times

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

— Alan Price

#classical #emotional #fantastic #music #themes

I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#appreciated #candidate #disrespectful #especially #fantastic

I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated. ↗

— Barbara Hershey

#australian #australian film #between #characters #crew

I had a fantastic mother who taught me self-confidence. ↗

— Anna Torv

#had #i #me #mother #self-confidence

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them. ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

#create #facts #fantastic #hard #illness

Psychic change, as Todorov has recognized, subverted the genre in another way, by revoking the cultural taboos, the social censorship, that had prohibited the overt treatment of psychosexual themes, which then found covert expression in the supernatural tale. 'There is no need today to resort to the devil [or to posthumous reverie] in order to speak of excessive sexual desire, and none to resort to vampires in order to designate the attraction exerted by corpses: psychoanalysis, and the literature which is directly or indirectly inspired by it, deal with these matters in undisguised terms. The themes of fantastic literature have become, literally, the very themes of the psychological investigations of the last fifty years. ↗

— Howard Kerr

#fantastic #fantasy #horror #psychological #psychology

Nevertheless, the potential and actual importance of fantastic literature lies in such psychic links: what appears to be the result of an overweening imagination, boldly and arbitrarily defying the laws of time, space and ordered causality, is closely connected with, and structured by, the categories of the subconscious, the inner impulses of man's nature. At first glance the scope of fantastic literature, free as it is from the restrictions of natural law, appears to be unlimited. A closer look, however, will show that a few dominant themes and motifs constantly recur: deals with the Devil; returns from the grave for revenge or atonement; invisible creatures; vampires; werewolves; golems; animated puppets or automatons; witchcraft and sorcery; human organs operating as separate entities, and so on. Fantastic literature is a kind of fiction that always leads us back to ourselves, however exotic the presentation; and the objects and events, however bizarre they seem, are simply externalizations of inner psychic states. This may often be mere mummery, but on occasion it seems to touch the heart in its inmost depths and become great literature. ↗

— Franz Rottensteiner

#fantastic #fantastique #fantasy #genre #golem

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#confidence #emotions #fantastic #felt #freedom