imagination
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘imagination’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.” -William C. Bryant
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“Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.” -Bruce Catton
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“I’ve always had an active imagination.” -Rickie Lee Jones
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“The Grateful Dead, they’re my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.” -Bill Walton
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“Well, I think that – I think leadership’s always been about two main things: imagination and courage.” -Paul Keating
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“Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination… a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there’s still time to influence how that future will play out.” -Karen Thompson Walker
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“Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.” -Julianna Baggott
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“You never quite know what’s going to strike your imagination, or something that won’t going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.” -Peter Shaffer
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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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“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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“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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“Busted is not the ideal band I’d like to be in by any stretch of the imagination.” -Charlie Simpson
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination.” -Rob Walton
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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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“I’ve never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.” -Garry Trudeau
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“I’ll confess right here that I secretly wish I’d have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.” -Berkeley Breathed
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“I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.” -Terry Brooks
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“Imagination comes of not having things.” -LeRoy Neiman
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“It’s what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it’s never been before. There’s nothing better than that.” -Robin Wright Penn
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“They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director’s imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.” -Toby Jones
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“I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.” -Cornelia Funke
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“Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.” -Georg Brandes
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“I hope that I’m sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now. I think a lot of girls in the public eye, especially musical artists, are just kind of objectified a little bit and wearing super-skimpy outfits and leaving nothing to the imagination.” -Emmy Rossum
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“It’s a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don’t have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.” -Julian Schnabel
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“The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.” -James Weldon Johnson
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“But I’m never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.” -Abel Ferrara
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“You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.” -Peter Mullan
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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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“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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“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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“I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.” -Michel Gondry
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“When we were filming ‘The Darkest Hour,’ we didn’t even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn’t even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you’re just generating them from your own imagination.” -Olivia Thirlby
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“I believe that imagination inspires nations. It’s something that I live by.” -Janelle Monae
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“Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.” -Doris Day
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“Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.” -Arthur Keith
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“I always believe it’s better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.” -Trevor Nunn
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“I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I’ll never lose my imagination and my passion. That’s really what it is. I’m still passionate about what I do.” -Teena Marie
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“Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.” -Gaston Bachelard
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“It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.” -Kevin J. Anderson
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“Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.” -Yann Martel
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“Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.” -Evelyn Underhill
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“I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I’m basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.” -Rufus Sewell
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.” -Tim Berners Lee
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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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“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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“I’m an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.” -Erin Morgenstern
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“I write from my imagination, not from what I’ve read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.” -Dirk Benedict
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“Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.” -Paul Wolfowitz
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“I don’t like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it’s your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination.” -Mark Ruffalo
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“The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we’re disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.” -Richard Powers
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“I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that’s in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that’s why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I’m really…
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“Our imagination just needs space. It’s all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.” -Glen Hansard
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“One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We’re not scientists. We don’t always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.” -Stella Adler
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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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“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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“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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“I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.” -Carlos Fuentes
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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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“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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“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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“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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“My books are elegiac in the sense that they’re odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.” -Richard Russo
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“You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people willing to turn in some work next to nothing, you going to have a feature. But you can’t get beyond how expensive marketing the movie is, it’s so crushing.” -Kevin Smith
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“All my life I’ve had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.” -Tommy Lee Jones
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“My imagination functions much better when I don’t have to speak to people.” -Patricia Highsmith
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“I can’t work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth and then I can fly free.” -Andrew Wyeth
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“The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.” -Ai Weiwei
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“I suppose I’m proudest of my novels for what’s imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.” -John Irving
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“A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.” -Percy Ross
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“I’ve been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It’s up to you, the only limit is the imagination.” -Steve Lacy
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“Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, ‘Just watch!’” -Bill Bradley
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“Imagination is the air of mind.” -Philip James Bailey
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“The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.” -Vladimir Kramnik
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“It’s through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.” -Alexander McCall Smith
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“He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.” -Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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“The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.” -Van Morrison
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“Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin’s ‘Courant,’ it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America’s last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.” -Eric Alterman
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“There’s the argument that you can relate to someone who’s completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.” -Idris Elba
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“It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.” -Ursula K. Le Guin
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“My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.” -Tom Waits
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“Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.” -Rita Dove
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“Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You’re constantly depicting something that doesn’t exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.” -Ron Perlman
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“To me, it’s far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It’s far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.” -Michael Haneke
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“I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.” -Amy Tan
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“I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me,…
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“I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.” -Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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“The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.” -Henry George
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“I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.” -Joe Rogan
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“What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.” -Wynton Marsalis
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“Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it’s some kind of quality isn’t it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.” -Jarvis Cocker
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“For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it’s essential to be free.” -Manuel Puig
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“To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.” -Quintilian
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“I’m not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.” -Courteney Cox
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“There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.” -Jonas Salk
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“I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it’s great to be a part of and watch.” -Chris Hemsworth
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“Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.” -Annie Dillard
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“I wouldn’t say that I’ve had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.” -Duncan Sheik
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“A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.” -Russell Page
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“There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.” -Sean O’Faolain
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“Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.” -Eartha Kitt
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“Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.” -Joyce Carol Oates
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“I guess I’m a very keen observer, and I’d like to think I have a good imagination.” -Eric Bana
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“I don’t think it’s possible to touch people’s imagination today by aesthetic means.” -J. G. Ballard
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“Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it’s just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.” -Joaquin Phoenix
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“If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old – somebody who takes good care of things and of people.” -Connie Nielsen
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“To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.” -Wallace Stevens
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“The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.” -Eddie Rickenbacker
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“The English language is nobody’s special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.” -Derek Walcott
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“It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.” -Martha Gellhorn
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“People can die of mere imagination.” -Geoffrey Chaucer
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“I’ve got quite a vivid imagination and I’m easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a ghost – I think I’m probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.” -Florence Welch
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“It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.” -Paul Farmer
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“I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.” -Whoopi Goldberg
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“The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.” -Jessamyn West
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“You experience the films through the actors, so they’re all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.” -Danny Boyle
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“The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.” -Bryan Cranston
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“Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it’s a challenge to the moral imagination.” -Al Gore
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“Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.” -Mike Krzyzewski
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“I don’t want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.” -Steven Patrick Morrissey
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“My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.” -Elizabeth Wurtzel
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“I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it’s not imagination. It’s just a way of watching.” -Haruki Murakami
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“Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.” -Cyril Connolly
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“Essentially, I’m untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I’m going to be playing.” -Christian Bale
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“I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.” -Man Ray
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“I had a good imagination and I still have one a child-like imagination that hasn’t gone away.” -Laura Linney
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“I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.” -Franz Schubert
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.” -Alan Rickman
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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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“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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“Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.” -Christina Ricci
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“Imagination… its limits are only those of the mind itself.” -Rod Serling
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“This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.” -Adam Smith
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“I think what’s really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.” -Shigeru Miyamoto
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“My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I’ve always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.” -Kim Elizabeth
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“It’s a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I’ve never had any trouble identifying with the character that I’m playing.” -Jack Nicholson
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