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Imagination Quotes
"Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon."
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"A little imagination goes a long way in Fes."
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"I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can."
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"To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another."
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"You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination."
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"You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination."
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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."
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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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"I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can't be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself."
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"Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it."
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"You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me."
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"People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up."
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"If it's possible in the mind, then it's possible anywhere."
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"The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination."
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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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"For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity."
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"No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination."
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"Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of 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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"There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory."
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"The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships."
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"Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense."
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"The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination."
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"I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention."
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"I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you."
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"Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell."
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"The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination."
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"Mr. Freeman sighs. 'No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!"
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"I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it."
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"My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people."
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"Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether."
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"Who says you cannot hold the moon in your hand?Tonight when the stars come out and the moon rises in the velvet sky, look outside your window, then raise your hand and position your fingers around the disk of light.There you go . . . That was easy!"
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"Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only."
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"Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!"
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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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"Fiction is necessary to life - not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning."
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"He wanders, like a day-appearing dream,Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined."
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"Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination."
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"In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted."
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"A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination."
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"We forget that what matters begins with the imagination."
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"Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever."
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"The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece."
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"I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination."
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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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"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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"Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did."
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