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"I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist."
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"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."

"Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel."

"Never tell to much. The monster is always scarier when it is still under the child's bed."

"How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all."

"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

"Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It's just in their head. They're all the time talkin' about it, but it's jus' in their head."

"My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men."

"Sci-fi opens the way in mind for the new science."

"Those first few weeks are an unearthly season. From the outside you remain so ordinary, no one can tell from looking that you have experienced an earthquake of the soul. You've been torn asunder, invested with an ancient, incomprehensible magic. It's the one thing that we never quite get over: that we contain our own future."

"As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope."
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"I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family."


"If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family. And that makes you at home in that world and not fearful. So really it's very self-serving."


"It is a different world than when I was growing up, and you started to just kind of maintain at thirty-five and just hope you can hope it together. People are a lot more vital than I am and doing all kinds of things and leading really important movements."


"Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibility."


"So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality."


"Just because I haven't yet had any project surgery, I'm not going to knock it, because I think women have the right to do whatever they want to their bodies that make them feel good about themselves."


"We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States."
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