Imagination Quotes
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Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.
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A reader's own imagination is a far more powerful form of CGI than anything any movie can provide because it's unique. In your own imagination, you can enter all sorts of worlds, and they are unique to you because no other reader will interpret a book the same way.
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There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before him. A science-fiction writer envisions another world, and then some space probe finds it. If you believe in something strongly enough, I think you can make it happen.
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
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The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream - he awoke and found it truth.
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Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.
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I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'
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Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.
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I don't agree with the sentiment 'write what you know.'... I think one should write what one doesn't know. The world is bigger and wider and more complex than our small subjective selves. One should prod, goad the imagination.
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I don't see any point. I'm not sort of playing him as much as I am Glenn's interpretation of him, ... Both Joe and Allison's personalities act as springboards for Glenn's imagination. I don't think we are meant to ape them, or ape their lives.
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I have an active imagination.
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It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.
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Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.
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Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.
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I sometimes think that so much of our life takes place inside our heads - in memory or imagination or interpretation or speculation - that if I really want to change my life, I might best begin by changing my mind.
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How long an actress lives professionally depends on her stamina, the extent of her masochism, her imagination, and her yearning for recognition or approval.
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L'imagination m'apportait des délices infinies. En recouvrant ce que les hommes appellent la raison, faudra-t-il regretter de les avoir perdues...? My imagination gave me infinite delight. In recovering what men call reason, do I have to regret the loss of these joys?
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My job is to make sure there's something about each dress that ignites the bride's imagination.
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Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.
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I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.
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I'm always looking for something to engage my imagination and take me on a little mental voyage. I just want a new topic in my life.
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I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.
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Hunger, inadequate medical care, poor housing, and inferior schools are enemies of the sense of wonder. It is easier and less expensive in the long run to prevent a loss of imagination by providing adequate nutrition, housing, medical care, and schooling than it is to try to restore that loss.
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Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.
