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Imagination Quotes
"Everyone knew what he was thinking. Certainly there were demons in the world. But they were like Tehlu's angels. They were like heroes and kings. They belonged in stories. They belonged out there. Taborlin the Great called up fire and lightning to destroy demons. Tehlu broke them in his hands and sent them howling into the nameless void. Your childhood friend didn't stomp one to death on the road to Baedn-Bryt. It was ridiculous."
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"Lunar Eclipse doesn't that sound like a car you can only drive at night?"
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"Politics is the enemy of the imagination."
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"Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality."
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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."
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"If it's possible in the mind, then it's possible anywhere."
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"To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination."
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"Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster."
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"It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world."
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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."
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"Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,' he said.'That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,' said Abrenuncio. 'If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur."
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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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"I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination."
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"Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have."
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"At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration."
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"The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?"
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"For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity."
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"The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer."
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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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"You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination."
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"Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything."
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"Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!"
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"In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination."
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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."
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"I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive."
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"Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination."
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"My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people."
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"My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."
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"Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination."
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"There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny."
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"Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow."
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"Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin."
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"People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go."
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"Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character."
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"Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts."
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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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"Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination."
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"Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life."
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"I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything."
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"Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination."
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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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"Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination."
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"A book had always been a door to another world... a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy.And that love could fill the real world with magic."
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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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"Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it."
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"Lies can open up the doors to imagination."
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