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  • Beverly Cleary on hope

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    “I don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.” -Beverly Cleary

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  • Olivier Martinez on hope

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    “It’s not only imagination, it’s the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.” -Olivier Martinez

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  • Laura Hillenbrand on hope

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    “I’m looking for a way out of here. I can’t have it physically, so I’m going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it’s just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he’s breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives…

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  • Dave Attell on hope

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    “I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what’s going on.” -Dave Attell

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  • Tim Berners Lee on hope

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    “When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.” -Tim Berners Lee

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  • Jean Giraudoux on hope

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    “We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.” -Jean Giraudoux

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  • Patty Duke on hope

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    “I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.” -Patty Duke

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  • Joyce Cary on hope

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    “Love doesn’t grow on trees like apples in Eden – it’s something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.” -Joyce Cary

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  • Jerzy Kosinski on hope

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    “I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.” -Jerzy Kosinski

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  • Nellie Bly on hope

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    “How can a doctor judge a woman’s sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.” -Nellie Bly

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  • Bobby Seale on hope

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    “On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn’t observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.” -Bobby Seale

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  • Carly Rae Jepsen on hope

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    “I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they’ve experienced something.” -Carly Rae Jepsen

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  • Frederick Henry Hedge on hope

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    “Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.” -Frederick Henry Hedge

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  • James Broughton on hope

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    “I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.” -James Broughton

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  • Ronnie James Dio on hope

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    “Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I’ve learned in my own life.” -Ronnie James Dio

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  • Andrew Bird on hope

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    “My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.” -Andrew Bird

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  • Mark Haddon on hope

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    “Use your imagination, and you’ll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.” -Mark Haddon

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  • Mo Rocca on hope

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    “A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur that the computer mouse is a hotrod that the box is a cave that the rawhide is a torch… or a baton… or something.” -Mo Rocca

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  • Renny Harlin on hope

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    “You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination – at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.” -Renny Harlin

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  • Geraldine Brooks on hope

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    “The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.” -Geraldine Brooks

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  • William Godwin on hope

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    “There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.” -William Godwin

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  • Carlos Fuentes on hope

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    “I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.” -Carlos Fuentes

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  • Gary Ross on hope

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    “Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.” -Gary Ross

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  • John Berger on hope

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    “The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.” -John Berger

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  • Andrew Motion on hope

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    “I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I’m likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.” -Andrew Motion

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