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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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		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. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				H. P. Lovecraft 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				L. Frank Baum 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				C. S. Lewis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		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 interested in that subject. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sam Raimi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Eddie Rickenbacker 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Washington Irving 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		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 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ian Frazier 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Damian Woetzel 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nassim Nicholas Taleb 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		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, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nathan Fillion 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gary Zukav 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		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 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edi Gathegi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				H. P. Lovecraft 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edmund Wilson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kate Bush 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lara St. John