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  • Michael Tippett on hope

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    “Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.” -Michael Tippett

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  • Gustavo Dudamel on hope

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    “In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it’s real.” -Gustavo Dudamel

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  • Sam Rockwell on hope

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    “I’ve studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. It’s mainly about daydreaming. And the technique’s really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene.” -Sam Rockwell

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  • Richard Wright on hope

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    “The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.” -Richard Wright

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  • Jeri Ryan on hope

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    “The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn’t leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don’t have a problem with it because of the way this character’s been written.” -Jeri Ryan

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  • Margaret Mahy on hope

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    “They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.” -Margaret Mahy

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  • Lionel Trilling on hope

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    “There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.” -Lionel Trilling

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  • Dweezil Zappa on hope

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    “I didn’t really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, ‘Where’s the rest of it?’ It didn’t have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination…

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  • Dougray Scott on hope

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    “You’d have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don’t make movies we do.” -Dougray Scott

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  • Rob Walton on hope

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    “I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination.” -Rob Walton

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  • Jack Vance on hope

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    “Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn’t a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.” -Jack Vance

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  • Emile Hirsch on hope

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    “On ‘Into The Wild’ I spent months risking my life and on ‘Speed Racer’ I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.” -Emile Hirsch

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  • Joshua Bell on hope

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    “For some reason I can’t explain, artist and musicians tend to look younger than our age. Being in music, you need this youthful sense of discovery and wonder for what you’re doing and keep your imagination open. That’s a youthful way of looking at life and I think that reflects in how you age.” -Joshua…

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  • Richard Eyre on hope

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    “A place makes a deep impression on you when you’re young. It lives with you. It’s like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.” -Richard Eyre

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  • Sean Hannity on hope

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    “My life has been a gift up to this point, and I’ve been blessed beyond my wildest imagination. And wherever this ride takes me is where I’m going.” -Sean Hannity

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  • Mary Wesley on hope

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    “Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I’ve fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.” -Mary Wesley

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  • Edouard Manet on hope

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    “It is not enough to know your craft – you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.” -Edouard Manet

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  • James Van Der Beek on hope

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    “I’ve never really had a problem with the imagination level of an audience. They’re always smarter and savvier than any studio exec will give them credit for.” -James Van Der Beek

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  • Brian Cox on hope

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    “Charles Laughton, who’s a great hero of mine, only ever made one film and it happens to be one of the great films ever, which is ‘The Night of the Hunter.’ It’s full of his kind of imagination and creation and how you do things and just in the way he used the studio, I…

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  • Charlie Simpson on hope

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    “Busted is not the ideal band I’d like to be in by any stretch of the imagination.” -Charlie Simpson

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  • Kate Atkinson on hope

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    “Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination – they don’t conform to the reality that’s around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.” -Kate Atkinson

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  • Susan Sarandon on hope

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    “I think I’m an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.” -Susan Sarandon

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  • Dennis Hastert on hope

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    “President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.” -Dennis Hastert

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  • Ashley Judd on hope

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    “Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.” -Ashley Judd

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  • Barry Cornwall on hope

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    “Death is the tyrant of the imagination.” -Barry Cornwall

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