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Imagination Quotes
"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."
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"My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people."
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"Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination."
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"Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall."
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"Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things."
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"To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination."
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"Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times."
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"Have you ever pondered the miracle of popcorn? It starts out as a tiny, little, compact kernel with magic trapped inside that when agitated, bursts to create something marvelously desirable. It's sort of like those tiny, little thoughts trapped inside an author's head that-in an excited explosion of words-suddenly become a captivating fairytale!"
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"If there weren't so many interesting conversations taking place inside my head, I might venture to speak out loud."
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"Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers."
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"It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination."
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"Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit."
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"The imagination is man's power over nature."
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"We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark."
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"All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see. He said she came out of mirrors as if she were made of thin air, and that she lived with Satan himself in a palace at the bottom of a lake."
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"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."
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"He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts."
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"The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible."
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"One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet."
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"Float beyond the world of trees. Out into the whispering breeze, past the rushes, past the weeds, past the marsh's waving reeds."
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"A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination."
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"The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination."
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"Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe."
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"When you're young you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It's the best!"
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"When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed."
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"Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain."
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"The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future."
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"An idea is salvation by imagination."
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"My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!"
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"When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied."
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"Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop."
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"Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it."
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"For what is magic, but passion freed from reason?"
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"I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do."
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"Azdaha were no joke. ... Not much is known about this dragon [the aforementioned Gandarw], except that he apparently had yellow heels. I wonder why that was such an important detail. I mean if I were describing Godzilla, the color of his heels wouldn't be the first thing I would mention."
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"Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it."
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"The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized."
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"Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination."
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"He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart."
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"To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination."
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"The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem."
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"It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that."
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"If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be."
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"If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted."
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"I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination."
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"Never give up the freeness of your soul. Live your duty to mankind, nurture creatures of this world as a true mother of the earth, but never shut your imagination off from those desires that distinguish you from the ordinary. Never allow yourself to be sapped of that extraordinary energy that is the necessary ingredient for creating something new and progressive."
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