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  • J. C. Watts on hope

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    “In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts – in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma – would someday be called Congressman.” -J. C. Watts

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  • Sam Levenson on hope

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    “One of the virtues of being very young is that you don’t let the facts get in the way of your imagination.” -Sam Levenson

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  • Juliette Gordon Low on hope

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    “To put yourself in another’s place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.” -Juliette Gordon Low

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  • Jennifer Lopez on hope

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    “You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That’s what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don’t go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they’re not going to have that imagination.” -Jennifer Lopez

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  • Henry James on hope

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    “The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.” -Henry James

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  • James Buchan on hope

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    “In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.” -James Buchan

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  • Stephen Sondheim on hope

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    “Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience’s imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there’s no fourth wall.” -Stephen Sondheim

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  • Vanessa Hudgens on hope

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    “Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like ‘The Grudge’, I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.” -Vanessa Hudgens

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  • Rod Serling on hope

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    “Imagination… its limits are only those of the mind itself.” -Rod Serling

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  • Charles Horton Cooley on hope

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    “If we divine a discrepancy between a man’s words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.” -Charles Horton Cooley

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  • Louis Aragon on hope

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    “Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason’s imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.” -Louis Aragon

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  • Charles de Gaulle on hope

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    “You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.” -Charles de Gaulle

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  • Maria Callas on hope

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    “An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I’ve left the opera house.” -Maria Callas

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  • Christopher Fry on hope

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    “Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.” -Christopher Fry

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  • Christina Ricci on hope

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    “Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.” -Christina Ricci

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  • Robert Carlyle on hope

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    “I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.” -Robert Carlyle

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  • Billy Connolly on hope

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    “I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.” -Billy Connolly

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  • Alan Rickman on hope

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    “One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.” -Alan Rickman

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  • Meryl Streep on hope

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    “I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.” -Meryl Streep

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  • Doris Lessing on hope

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    “What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, ‘Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,’ reducing it to a simple formula.” -Doris Lessing

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  • Jason Statham on hope

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    “If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors.” -Jason Statham

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  • Nicole Kidman on hope

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    “My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn’t be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.” -Nicole Kidman

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  • Kristen Stewart on hope

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    “I don’t want to discredit people’s individuality, but I think people are pretty much the same. People are very similar. If you have a good enough imagination then you can feel things that you personally have never done before. That’s acting.” -Kristen Stewart

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  • Rashida Jones on hope

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    “Well, I’m not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.” -Rashida Jones

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  • Ralph Fiennes on hope

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    “Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it’s a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you’re not playing yourself.” -Ralph Fiennes

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