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Imagination Quotes
"On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer."
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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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"We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the 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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood."
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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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"Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination."
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"Everyday, Jay would sit under a giant elm tree and imagine the adventures his life might bring."
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"Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry.Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more ammunition.Now it can build castles and cities and whole ice continents with your breath's vapor.In a few blinks you can almost see the winter fairies moving in . . .But first, you hear the crackle of their wings."
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"I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be."
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"Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave."
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"You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance."
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"I could write paper people and I would love them too, I could make them almost real."
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"Lies can open up the doors to imagination."
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"This morning I lay in the bathtub thinking how wonderful it would be if I had a dog like Rin Tin Tin. I'd call him Rin Tin Tin too, and I'd take him to school with me, where he could stay in the janitor's room or by the bicycle racks when the weather was good."
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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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"It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today."
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"Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly."
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"But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there."
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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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"Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination."
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"I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings."
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"Imagination is the true magic carpet."
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"You cannot control faeries. Can. Not. They aren't logical or rational. They don't obey the same laws (physical, social, emotional, traffic - you name it) that we do."
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"The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination."
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"Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination."
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"Persons curious in chronology may, if they like, work out from what they already know of the Wimsey family that the action of the book takes place in 1935; but if they do, they must not be querulously indignant because the King's Jubilee is not mentioned, or because I have arranged the weather and the moon's changes to suit my own fancy. For, however realistic the background, the novelist's only native country is Cloud-Cuckooland, where they do but jest, poison in jest: no offence in the world."
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"Live with a pure and open heart and mind. Quiet all the rest. Our biggest obstacle was always ourselves. Thoughts that come from a place of love: are never wrong."
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"How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination."
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"Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect."
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"But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination."
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"When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment."
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"Emily wondered whether Artie would be so carefree if he knew The Book Club was performing grand theft imagination."
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"It's just a way of trying to get to a third thing that's not particular to any quote-unquote genre. It's been great for me; it's really opened me up and gotten me to use that part of my imagination. It's very scary in a lot of ways, and just as exciting."
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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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"There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory."
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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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"It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own."
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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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"Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?"
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"People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up."
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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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"And from the midst of cheerless gloomI passed to bright unclouded day."
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