Mary Pope Osborne Quotes
I get ideas from my own personal experiences, from my imagination, and from my research and from old stories.
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No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful - a record against which must be pitted the depressing spectacle of impossibly flattened bulldogs, grotesquely elongated dachshunds, hideously shapeless and shaggy Airedales, and the like.
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We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
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One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
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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.
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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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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.
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I'm just the second Bodhi. I think there will be more. I have the feeling this is only the first re-imagination of 'Point Break'.
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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.
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I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things.
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I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.
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Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
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There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
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I think acting is a work of imagination.
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These creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chronological order, since the latest science replaces what went before. But the arts are another story - a story of infinite addition. We must find order in the random flexings of the imagination.
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I hated Kerner, and one day I met him and we became friends. He was young and gloriously melancholy because his spirits were so high and life had so much in store for him. Yes, he was almost riotously sad. That was his youth. When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Ralph is a man of courage and a man of great conviction. For more than 23 years he has acted in the best interest of his constituents back home and has always put country before politics.
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I get ideas from my own personal experiences, from my imagination, and from my research and from old stories.
