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A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched.
Jane Mcgonigal / Game Designer
Availability
Decrease
Dramatic
Oil
Far-Fetched
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When I was a child, the idea of coming to Mumbai and becoming a singer was a far-fetched one.
Neeti Mohan /
Mumbai
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The occult - what do you mean, Jesus? That's occult to me. It's so far-fetched, it's ridiculous.
Glenn Danzig / Singer-Songwriter
Jesus
Mean
Occult
Ridiculous
Far-Fetched
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I didn't make movies when I was a kid, but I loved them. That was considered a far-fetched dream.
Pruitt Taylor Vince /
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The notion of getting the general public into low-Earth orbit I don't think is far-fetched at all.
Brian Binnie /
General Public
Notion
Orbit
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We all, as actors, have to fight these battles, where it's like, 'OK, that's a little far-fetched.'
Josh Bowman /
Battles
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I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.
Greta Gerwig / Actress
Dream
I Had A Dream
Work Out
Far-Fetched
Necessarily
Seemed
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There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.
Martin Freeman / Actor
Comedy
Disappointment
Familiar
Far-Fetched
Subject
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Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible.
Wentworth Miller / Actor
Believe
Capable
Impossible
Prison
Prison Break
Viewers
Michael
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It is interesting to come across people who feel that a ghost communicating via a spell-checker is less far-fetched than a software glitch.
Mary Roach / Author
Ghost
Software
People Feel Who
Far-Fetched
Via
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'E.T.' was far-fetched. 'E.T.' was this wimpy-looking kid that came to Earth to pick some plants, but he came from the Andromeda Galaxy to do that.
Seth Shostak / Astronomer
Galaxy
Far-Fetched
Plants
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I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.
Bryan Adams / Singer-Songwriter
Ideas
Mind
Stars
Entered
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I don't know - the idea of a specific wine paired with a specific piece of music seems a little far-fetched to me. But maybe I just need to be opened to it.
Mike D / Drums
Wine
Music Me Know
Far-Fetched
Opened
Piece
Specific
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While growing up, I always wanted to see myself on the big screen - more so because there were no laptops then, and viewing on mobile was a far-fetched dream.
Shweta Tripathi /
Big Screen
Laptops
Myself Always See
Far-Fetched
Viewing
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My kids listen to everything because I listen to everything, so it's not far-fetched to hear them playing Metallica and then playing A Tribe Called Quest or N.W.A.
Big Boi / Rapper
Kids
Metallica
Quests
Tribe Called Quest
Tribes
Far-Fetched
Hear
Quest
Tribe
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It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled by obvious thugs and crooks.
Thomas Pogge / Philosopher
Blame
Country
Crooks
Obvious
Persistence
Poverty
Severe
Thug
Far-Fetched
Ruled
Thugs
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I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning's line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express something which she found beyond expression.
Marie Corelli / Novelist
Agree
Obscurity
Stars
Entirely
Express
Far-Fetched
Mrs
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A Western-style democracy in Afghanistan is a dream. I don't see that as a reality anytime soon. But I think some form of representative political process is not that far-fetched.
Khaled Hosseini / Novelist
Afghanistan
Democracy
Process
Anytime
Far-Fetched
Political Process
Representative
Soon
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I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before.
Greg Egan / Fiction Writer
Nominations
Perspective
Seems
Winning
Far-Fetched
Hugo
Nominated
Obviously
Prospect
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When I was a kid, I loved Elvis, and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. But I had no connection to Hollywood - and being a movie star was such a far-fetched idea, growing up in Hawaii.
Dwayne Johnson / Actor
Movie
Growing Up
Hawaii
Hollywood
Indiana
Movie Star
Loved
Idea
Star
Connection
Elvis
Far-Fetched
Ford
Harrison Ford
Indiana Jones
No Connection
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When I was growing up in Ossining, N.Y., playing pool with the guys, the thought that any one of us might become an actor was as far-fetched as being knighted by the queen of England.
Peter Falk / Actor
England
Growing Up
Might
Pool
Actor
Far-Fetched
Guys
Queen
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Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.
Kaskade / Dj
Dance
Uplifting
Dance Music
Hymns
Spiritual
Together
Music Together People
Brings
Far-Fetched
Stretch
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I read 'Twilight' when I was overseas. I actually liked it. I didn't expect to, because I generally don't like fantasy like that because it's far-fetched, but I liked it. It's pretty good.
Sue Bird / Basketball Player
Twilight
Far-Fetched
Pretty Good
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I think the best wrestling always needs to pretend to be real, and Vince Russo's wrestling is so pathetically far-fetched and phony that I think he does a disservice to his wrestlers and the business.
Bret Hart / Writer
Disservice
Phony
Best Business Always
Be Real
Pretend
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Wrestlers
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I went to work for the Civil Service. I'd wanted to work for the Ministry of Defence because I had some far-fetched idea that it had something to do with the Avengers, but I ended up in Social Security.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Avengers
Civil Service
Defence
Ministry
Social Security
Civil
Ended
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'Star Wars' is a grand soap opera, and 'Star Trek' is about technology, they tried to explain the reality of it, as far-fetched as it might be. And that's why I've always liked the science behind the fiction.
Robert Kazinsky / Film Actor
Opera
Soap
Wars
Explain
Far-Fetched
Grand
Soap Opera
Star Trek
Trek
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Such crazy things happen on daytime TV; if you were to take a specific scene out of context, it can sound so far-fetched that you start laughing at the material... and that can take you out of watching the performance.
Kassie Depaiva / Actress
Crazy Things
Daytime
Things Happen
Context
Far-Fetched
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Before the advent of the Web, if you wanted to sustain a belief in far-fetched ideas, you had to go out into the desert, or live on a compound in the mountains, or move from one badly furnished room to another in a series of safe houses.
Ellen Ullman / Author
Advent
Belief
Desert
Safe
Series
Badly
Compound
Far-Fetched
Furnished
Houses
Room
Sustain
Web
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I don't believe it's too far-fetched to think that we as college football players can make a significant, positive difference in the youth culture of America simply by embracing the responsibilities that accompany this place of privilege.
Kirk Cousins / Football Player
Positive
Accompany
College
College Football
Football
Privilege
Significant
Youth
Youth Culture
Simply
Difference
Embracing
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Football Players
Responsibilities
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The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.
Michael Kinsley / Journalist
Medical
Commerce
Court
Interstate
Judging
Law
Logic
Marijuana
Thanks
Throwing
Wholesale
Affect
Clause
Conservatives
Far-Fetched
Grounds
Judges
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To read Transtromer - the best times are at night, in silence, and alone - is to surrender to the far-fetched. It is to climb out of bed and listen to what the house is saying, and to how the wind outside responds. Each of his readers reads him as a personal secret.
Teju Cole / Writer
Bed
Silence
Surrender
Wind
Climb
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Readers
Reads
Responds
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I had this little piece of me that always wanted to be an actress, but I would never say it out loud because it was kind of embarrassing because where in San Jose do you become an actress? You don't, really. It was very far-fetched. It was similar to me saying, 'I want to be a princess.'
Anjelah Johnson /
Embarrassing
Loud
Princess
Far-Fetched
Me Always Never
Little Piece
San
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The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
Walter Kirn / Novelist
Investment
Pitching
Schemes
Stamina
Weird
Caesar
Distant
Far-Fetched
Relatives
Salads
Sign
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It was no accident that I made 'Hoop Dreams' because it concerned a sport that I loved and hoped would be my dream, however far-fetched that turned out to be. Because of the success of that film, Hollywood pigeonholed me as a sports biopic guy, which led to 'Prefontaine' and two cable sports films.
Steve James /
Sports
Concerned
Film
Hollywood
Dreams Success Me
Accident
Cable
Loved
Sport
Far-Fetched
Films
Hoop
However
Led
Pigeonholed
Turned
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My four years in Russia end, then, in dramatic fashion: with a textbook Soviet-style expulsion. I am the first western staff correspondent to suffer this fate since the end of the Cold War. I'm stunned. But my expulsion is not, I reflect, a surprise. It's something I have always accepted as a real, if far-fetched, possibility.
Luke Harding / Journalist
Accepted
Cold
Cold War
Dramatic
Fate
Possibility
Russia
Staff
Stunned
Surprise
Western
Correspondent
Far-Fetched
Reflect
Suffer
Textbook
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