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• There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Challenges, World, Fantasy

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• I think it's too fast to say that all sci-fi ultimately winds up having some place in science. On the other hand, imaginative minds working outside of science as storytellers certainly have come upon ideas that, with the passing decades, have either materialized of come close to materializing.

  Brian Greene

  Thinking, Hands, Wind

  "Unraveling the 'Fabric of the Cosmos': Q&A with Brian Greene". Interview with Denise Chow, www.space.com. November 1, 2011.

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• Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding - and He has a sense of humor.

  Jean Webster

  Heaven, Understanding, Forgiving

  Jean Webster (2004). “Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy”, p.59, Penguin

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• We will destroy you,” the Flyboys droned. “You have no escape.” That was the most imaginative, threatening thing the whitecoats had programmed these ’droids to say? “Talk about lame,” Fang muttered.

  James Patterson

  Lame, Threatening, Fangs

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1”, p.672, Hachette UK

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• The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work.

  Matt Groening

  Hard Work, Drawing, Wish

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• My imagination? No, I don't think it's VIVID at all. On the contrary, it's not nearly potent enough. My poor imaginative faculties have always needed...extentions. That's why I'm here with you. You're smiling again, or rather you're SMIRKING. Funny word, smirk. Rather like an extraterrestrial surname. Simon Smirk. How do you think that sounds?

  Thomas Ligotti

  Thinking, Imagination, Sound

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• God is only a great imaginative experience.

  D. H. Lawrence

  God, Fake People, Atheism

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

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• So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

  John Drinkwater

  Kind, Failing, Mood

  John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”

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• When I was little, I put on plays for my family at Sunday dinner, and I would direct them and have all my cousins, my brother, and my best friends in it. I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera. It was like make-believe to me.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Brother, Cousin, Children

  "Kirsten Dunst Relies on Intuition and Years of Experience to Serve the Role". Interview with Jessica Gardner, www.backstage.com. November 2, 2011.

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• What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are constantly trying to give their children — concrete, imaginative, teaching general principles from particular instances, and seeking all the time to bring the children to appreciate and share the parent's own attitudes and view of life… The all-embracing principles of conduct

  J. I. Packer

  Children, Attitude, Teaching

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• One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Love, Time, Memories

  "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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• There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.

  Rita Mae Brown

  People, Creative, Fiction

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• And when I look at a history book and think of the imaginative effort it has taken to squeeze this oozing world between two boards and typeset, I am astonished. Perhaps the event has an unassailable truth. God saw it. God knows. But I am not God. And so when someone tells me what they heard or saw, I believe them, and I believe their friend who also saw, but not in the same way, and I can put these accounts together and I will not have a seamless wonder but a sandwich laced with mustard of my own.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Believe, Book, Taken

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.95, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

  Russell Banks

  Writing, Intelligent, Honest

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• It is possible to point to hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions of imaginative, courageous programs to reduce, recycle, and reuse - yet the overall trajectory of industrial civilization remains relatively unchanged.

  Richard Heinberg

  Civilization, Reuse, Courageous

  Richard Heinberg (2015). “Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels”, p.65, New Society Publishers

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• I've never put Northern Ireland into a novel because it's not my territory. I come from the South, so my imaginative territory is very much the Republic of Ireland rather than the North. Even though, if I wrote a novel about the North, it might sell more.

  Colm Toibin

  Territory, Republic, Might

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• Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Technology, Simple, People

  "Are we back to the 1930s again? Here's why we shouldn't panic" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2013.

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• As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

  Patton Oswalt

  People, Acting, Method

  "Patton Oswalt Talks YOUNG ADULT, Charlize Theron, Future Projects, and More at SBIFF". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 5, 2012.

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• The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Hands, Land, Ideas

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• It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

  Cesare Pavese

  Children, Believe, Imagination

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• The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.

  Cass Sunstein

  Blessed, Yale, Law

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• Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

  Margot Asquith

  Signposts, Symbols

  Margot Asquith (1933). “More Memories”

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• Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

  Walter Lippmann

  Understanding, Ideals, Desirable

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.392, Harvard University Press

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• Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.

  Peter Mullan

  Catholic, Church, Connections

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• I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.

  Mary Karr

  Smart, Enough, Form

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