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"I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me."
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"I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend..."
"...in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist."
"The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies."
"Few people have the imagination for reality."
"But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else. I could never have imagined Margo's anger at being found, or the story she was writing over. But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in."
"I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the world that contained even the imagination of FA¡fnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever the cost of peril."
"Says, Rahula! Rahula! Face of Glory! Universe chawed and swallowed!"
"The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led."
"The world cannot be translated, It can only be dreamed of and touched."
"The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords."
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"People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there."
"I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older."
"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."
"I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do."
"Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person."
"Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me."
"Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference."
"Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there."
"I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work."
"My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that."
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