Nina Blackwood Quotes
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
W. Somerset Maugham
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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
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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.
Nathan Fillion
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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.
S. E. Hinton
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I started gigging when I was about 16, and I was way too young to be in the clubs.
Imelda May
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Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. 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.
Eddie Marsan
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I played the young Reese Witherspoon in 'Sweet Home Alabama' when I was 7, and the boy who played the young Josh Lucas was 10.
Dakota Fanning
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I think 'Eerie, Indiana' is a show for young people.
Omri Katz
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Victor Hugo
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Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.
Gail Carson Levine
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Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts its premises must consent to limit his imagination to a depressing casuistry regarding the formal requirements of modernism.
Harold Rosenberg
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I hope that with our music we can inspire other people to be creative and to use their imagination, because it is something that is so lacking nowadays. You have virtual reality, MTV, video games and VCR's. Nobody really wants to think about things or create things. You have programs on a computer which will write a poem for you.
Brian Hugh Warner
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Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.
Bertrand Russell
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What can they do besides exile me or make me disappear? They have no imagination or creativity.
Ai Weiwei
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Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
Bill Hicks
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There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.
Bill Hicks
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I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great thoughts which will speak to the imagination and the heart and will arouse all that is noblest and best in man.
George Frederic Watts
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I happen to agree with many of President Obama's policies, but in our system, it is often as important how you do something as what you do.
Jonathan Turley
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Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way that's really daunting.
Alan Cumming
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I think that the practice of religion allows one to discover emotional and psychological truth of a kind not available in the secular world.
Jay Parini
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When you are young your imagination is so clear.
Nina Blackwood