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What I'm looking for is a self-promoting film; a movie which immediately gets people's imagination is something I can promote - a project which writes its own publicity.
- Jeremy Thomas
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I'd stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans. People would roll down their windows saying, 'Isn't she cute'. I had a vivid imagination. I always pretended it was some big stage.
- Missy Elliott
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For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.
- Pete Hamill
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If you have a good inner life, you don't get lonely. I've got a good imagination. I don't miss romance.
- Diana Rigg
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I think I've got a decent imagination. I hope some of my stories inspire other young imaginations.
- Tony DiTerlizzi
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We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
- Jack Williamson
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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.
- Kate Klise
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Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can 'grow' longer, to Barbie and her fashionable sisters, dolls do double duty as child's play and the focus of adult art and adult fear.
- Ellen Datlow
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If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.
- Geoffrey S. Fletcher
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I don't know exactly how I end up with some of these roles. It mystifies me sometimes, but I am a fan of sci-fi. I love being taken into a strange world, and when it's told with imagination and credibility, I love being taken on that trip. I always have.
- Christopher Lloyd
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I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.
- Edi Gathegi
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I don't think it's any sort of stretch of the imagination to say that, very, very realistically, each single bitcoin, if bitcoin becomes popular, will have to be worth at least tens of thousands of dollars.
- Roger Ver
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Mine is not an autonomous imagination.
- Jay McInerney
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
- Floyd Skloot
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Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and there is already a narrative arc. What makes it harder is that you are not free to use your imagination and creativity to fill in any missing gaps within the story.
- Amy Bloom
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When James Bond presses the watch and the car explodes, the writer doesn't go into the science of it. One should leave it to the leap of faith. I have tried to explain as much as possible, and what I can't, I have left it to people's imagination.
- Ravi Subramanian
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I gather inspiration from all aspects of my life and things I see: love, heartache, mistakes, hopes, regrets, successes and faith. And it helps to have a wild imagination.
- Wendy Higgins
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Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.
- Joyce Carol Oates
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Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.
- Timothy Spall
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So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.
- Michio Kaku
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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
- Quintilian
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If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors.
- Jason Statham
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When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination.
- Nina Jacobson
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The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.
- Jean Piaget
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I've developed a theory that there's an inverse relationship between money and imagination. That if you've got lots of imagination then you don't really need much money, and if you've got lots of money then you won't bother with much imagination.
- Alan Moore
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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.
- Salman Rushdie
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Often you hear stories about never working with children. I disagree because children still have that residual magical thinking. They haven't had their imagination knocked out of them by turning into adults and life experiences.
- Nicolas Cage
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Dollar bills have absolutely no value except in our collective imagination, but everybody believes in the dollar bill.
- Yuval Noah Harari
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If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination.
- Michael Moriarty
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
- Joseph Joubert
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Illustrations can be a big window: a looking glass into the author's imagination.
- Tony DiTerlizzi
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There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
- William Godwin
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J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the imagination by pummelling it, bombarding it with powerful stimuli, in a rapid pace, with plenty of emotional rewards.
- Michael O'Brien
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There are two - parallel - universes of science. One is the actual day-to-day work of scientists, patiently researching into all parts of the world and sometimes making amazing discoveries. The other is the role science plays in the public imagination - the powerful effect it has in shaping how millions of ordinary people see the world.
- Adam Curtis
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His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.
- Algernon Blackwood
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If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.
- Hedy Lamarr
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In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.
- Damian Woetzel
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Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.
- John le Carre
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I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch.
- Chris Hemsworth
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One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.
- George Lucas
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Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it's always been there. It's been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had.
- Janet Jackson
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There aren't any fences to the imagination, and so there shouldn't be any for books.
- Matt Haig
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Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.
- Robinson Jeffers
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Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
- Mason Cooley
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Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.
- Jack Williamson
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In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.
- J. C. Watts
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Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.
- Orlando Bloom
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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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When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.
- Daniel Espinosa
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Listen to great storytellers; slowly, you will learn about voice, timing, tension, structure, climax - all the things you need to tell stories that will capture the imagination of your audience.
- Carmen Agra Deedy
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As an actor, you always want to reach back to being a child and having the spontaneity and the imagination of a child.
- Wes Bentley
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I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.
- Whoopi Goldberg
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I think that a good deal of poetry and art gives us some sense of access to another's voice, perception, texture of thought, imagination. Sometimes it gives us better access to the strangeness in ourselves.
- Mary Szybist
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With me, writing is 60% imagination, 30% people you know and 10% you don't know where it comes from.
- Terrence McNally
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I think cinema is the memory and the imagination of the country. Take the memory and imagination out of an individual, and he stops being an individual. I think it's the same thing for a country.
- Philippe Falardeau
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I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.
- Carly Rae Jepsen
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Businessmen are not in business to lose customers, and schools do not exist to free their clients from the agencies of mass persuasion. School and media possess a productive monopoly upon the imagination of a child.
- Jonathan Kozol
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One thinks of toys and play as an area of great novelty and potentiality where all sorts of responses can be developed. The fact that adults are allowing their imaginations to have activity through toy kinds of objects is a further reflection of the belief in the imagination of the adult mind.
- Brian Sutton-Smith
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The human imagination can connect to practically anything.
- Amy Gerstler
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I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it.
- Zooey Deschanel
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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
- Wallace Stevens
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Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
- Malachy McCourt
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I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.
- Janet Jackson
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Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.
- James L. Farmer, Jr.
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My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.
- Richard Russo
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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
- William Morris
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Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
- Marquis de Sade
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You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.
- David Garrick
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As children, we have vivid imaginations. We stay up late waiting for Santa Claus, dream of becoming president, and have ideas that defy physics. Then something happens. As we grow older, we start editing our imagination.
- Brian Chesky
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I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.
- Salman Rushdie
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The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don't have a problem with it because of the way this character's been written.
- Jeri Ryan
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Imagination is a screen onto which the evil spirits can 'project' images, temptations presented as stimulating entertainments, offering us pleasurable rewards if we give in to the temptation.
- Michael O'Brien
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I think New York is a good place to write in general because it's a grid. It's organized. You know where you are on the map. That centers you, and your imagination is perhaps freer to roam.
- Alex Turner
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My role as a novelist is to explore ideas and imagination, and hopefully that will inspire people from my world to continue dreaming and to believe in dreams.
- Alexis Wright
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
- Karl Kraus
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There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.
- Sean O'Faolain
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Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.
- Shirley Hazzard
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Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
- Annie Dillard
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Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
- Vladimir Nabokov
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That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
- George Berkeley
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You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
- Henri Bergson
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A writer loses possession of her work as soon as it's reaches its audience. Each reader brings his own experience and prejudice and imagination to the work. Television adaptation just goes one step further, and the novelist has to learn to let go.
- Ann Cleeves
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
- Daniel Espinosa
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On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.
- Sam Shepard
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The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.
- Steve Wozniak
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
- Eduard Hanslick
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My role models came in my imagination, from what I'd heard on the radio or on record... Vera Lynn I loved, but I'd only ever heard her on the radio. Gospel singers, Bessie Smith, Mahalia Jackson. So it was in my head that I visualised the emotion but no way to see how people do it.
- Judith Durham
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For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
- Maxwell Maltz
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I don't profess to be Shonda Rhimes by any stretch of the imagination, or Dick Wolf. They're icons. I'm a filmmaker.
- Lee Daniels
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The novel and the film of 'The Color Purple' are both works of the imagination that make claim to historical truth.
- Darryl Pinckney
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
- Yael Naim
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Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it's a good starting place for me.
- Alan Lightman
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I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it.
- Bill Plympton
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All of the Antilles, every island, is an effort of memory: every mind, every racial biography culminating in amnesia and fog. Pieces of sunlight through the fog and sudden rainbows, arcs-en-ciel. That is the effort, the labour of the Antillean imagination, rebuilding its gods from bamboo frames, phrase by phrase.
- Derek Walcott
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I can be fascinated with very little things. The clouds stimulate my imagination, and sometimes I just sit somewhere and go on dreaming for a long time. Your head is also a computer. When you're dreaming, you are simulating a world in which you are living.
- Theo Jansen
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I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.
- Nate Lowman
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If we find it hard to believe that winning millions might not be so lucky after all, we just don't have a good enough imagination. If I fantasise about winning the lottery, it doesn't take long before all sorts of worrisome potential consequences occur to me.
- Julian Baggini
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We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.
- Ariel Dorfman
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Browsing for books with a mouse and screen is not nearly as joyful an act as wandering the stacks and getting lost in the labyrinthine corridors of knowledge. The best libraries are places of imagination, education and community. The best libraries have mystery to them.
- Sam Weller
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