Keith Johnstone Quotes
Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be ‘wrong’, which is what our education encourages us to believe.

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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
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I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.
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In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'
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I believe that first impressions are very important.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.
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Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
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No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.
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Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.
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I think the music comes first, then comes the fashion, and thus, the lifestyle. I believe it starts with music, and then the person delivering it delivers the lifestyle, the fashion. Madonna is a great example of that.
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If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
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Every thinking person fears nuclear war and every technological nation plans for it. Everyone knows it's madness, and every country has an excuse.
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They men have corrupted this God's supernatural order by making profane things what they should make of holy things, because in fact, we believe scarcely any thing except which pleases us.
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I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.
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I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.
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As an American, you have the right to protest me or another individual or a group, but I believe that protesting the United States for the mistakes it has made - when it gave you the freedom to do so in the first place - is disrespectful.
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You could fancy what you'd like, but as a woman, my mother always raised us to believe in ourselves. I am very grateful that my mother brought me up that way.
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I don't think I care about the hair as much as people think I do. It's just kind of there. It's not really a big deal to me. It actually drives me nuts. It's always in my face if I don't have a hat on. I might have to get rid of it.
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Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.
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It's all about giving it your best in whatever you've got.
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My very first scene on camera for anything was with Sarah Jessica Parker in the 'Sex and the City' movie, and she couldn't have been more lovely and beautiful and kind, and on top of that, she's just a killer actress.
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Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.
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Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be ‘wrong’, which is what our education encourages us to believe.