"Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you."

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Source : Anna Deavere Smith (2008). “Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind”, p.76, Anchor

Anna Deavere Smith

#Fantasy Quotes

“I believe in my privacy. I always have, and I always will. I don't think that my private life needs to be on display for me to get a better response at the box office or for me to get a better choice of movies.”
“It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.”

Source : Georges Bataille (1985). “Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939”, p.5, U of Minnesota Press
“Not watching the path where his legs took him, he walked on because he knew he had to walk ahead, leaving his past behind.”
“Herbert, my father, was born in Britain but went out to Africa in his teens to join his father and built up an 18,000-acre ranch in what was then Northern Rhodesia, providing work for the locals. He was my hero when I was a boy.”
“...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.”
“In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us.”
“I'm a much better writer for being a father.”

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