David James Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of making my own rules as well as utilizing everything that I love or inspires me. It's very freeing to know you can write a story that can be as big as your own imagination.
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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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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.
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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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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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Writing for children isn't easy. Kids will abandon a story that doesn't interest, enchant, delight, thrill, or terrify them. But when you can find a way into a young reader's imagination through something as simple as words on paper, well, there's nothing more satisfying.
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I balance with prayer and music. I sing every day.
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In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life.
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Companies like Google and Facebook may offer jobs allowing or requiring imagination and creativity, but the whole of Silicon Valley accounts for only 3 percent of national income and a smaller percentage of national employment.
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When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
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We're living in what I like to call the 'Thank You Economy,' because only the companies that can figure out how to mind their manners in a very old-fashioned way - and do it authentically - are going to have a prayer of competing.
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Are you there? Say a prayer for the pretender who started out so young and strong only to surrender
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We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.
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I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.
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If you're not a daydreamer, you haven't got any imagination.
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I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.
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My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.
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If there would be a recipe for a poem, these would be the ingredients: word sounds, rhythm, description, feeling, memory, rhyme, and imagination. They can be put together a thousand different ways, a thousand, thousand...more.
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The cutthroat part of it is that professional wrestling has no union. There are a number of people that are taken advantage of on a daily basis.
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Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
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Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom discover, till too late, how I ought to act.
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A fly rod extends a fly fisher's being as surely as do imagination, empathy or prayer.
