Simone Weil (Simone Adolphine Weil) Quotes
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I'm the youngest of four, but my closest sibling is 10 years older. I had a lot of imagination. I was running around playing little games by myself. But I never thought I was going to be an actor.
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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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Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.
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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.
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I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.
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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
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I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
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I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.
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The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
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It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.
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Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.
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Action set pieces are my absolute favorite thing to write. I'm pretty much always in the mood to do them, but music certainly helps the process. I usually brainstorm out the dynamics and choreography of a fight to music beforehand - it gives me the little sparks of imagination when I get to the gaps in my own creativity.
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Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination.
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I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
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If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
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What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.
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Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.
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Intelligent design is consistent with any faith system I can think of, because most faith systems believe that there is a creator.
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What is working in the economy is a natural comeback plus some effects of the policies we've been following. But I'm sort of worried about the long term effects.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
