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A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched. -- Jane McGonigal
We all, as actors, have to fight these battles, where it's like, 'OK, that's a little far-fetched.' -- Josh Bowman
I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched. -- Greta Gerwig
There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with. -- Martin Freeman
Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible. -- Wentworth Miller
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
Benidorm' is such a great show. There's nothing else like it. You might think the characters are far-fetched, but then you get out here and it's bang on. It's about real people, real relationships and people believe in the actors. It's got heart and it's hilariously funny. When we're filming, we're lazing in the sun. It's hardly working, is it? -- Sheridan Smith
History is nothing if not far-fetched. -- Albert O. Hirschman
Too far-fetched to believe, too obvious to ignore. -- Nicholas Sparks
Unfortunately for novelists, real life is getting way too funny and far-fetched. -- Carl Hiaasen
I still don't believe I won the U.S. Open. It's so far-fetched for me. -- Andy Roddick
My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures. -- Henry David Thoreau
When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become. -- Carlos Castaneda
Was it really so far-fetched to think that words had a way of shaping a person's whole life? -- Kami Garcia
It's possible, although far-fetched, that in the future we could think of cancer being used as a therapy. -- Eva Vertes
The possibility of a war under the current circumstances is not far-fetched and there is some evidence for that. -- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
I have always been the type of person to want to reach a goal no matter how far-fetched it was. -- Rahki
It's not far-fetched that almost everywhere in the world where you have volcanoes you have mythologies or new gods being created. -- Werner Herzog
Anything is possible - even the most far-fetched idea can come to being through a series of seemingly small decisions and actions. -- Kandyse McClure
Christ was a Jew, and God, he is supposed to have made the universe. That's a little far-fetched because if God made the world, who made God? -- Julius Streicher
I obviously wanted to play for the Kansas City Royals. (Laughter) I also knew that was far-fetched. The truth is I don't really know what I wanted to do. -- Josh Earnest
It doesn't sound so far-fetched, right? When two people love each other? While a part of me still wants to believe it's possible, I know it's not going to happen -- Nicholas Sparks
Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. Its far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, its not a big stretch from hymns. -- Kaskade
It is not far-fetched to draw a line from Operation Ajax through the Shah's repressive regime and the Islamic Revolution to the fireballs that engulfed the World Trade Center in New York. -- Stephen Kinzer
However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own religious promptings because of a childish passion for rational enlightenment. -- Carl Jung
Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance. -- Henry Watson Fowler

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