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• My own way of thinking is very conservative, very linear and not particularly imaginative, but if I look for things in different places, sometimes things happen.

  Christopher Walken

  Thinking, Different, Looks

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• I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.

  Zoe Saldana

  Beautiful, Girl, Fiction

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• As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.

  Meredith Monk

  Artist, Thinking, Challenges

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• For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much.

  Hilary Mantel

  Too Much, Facts, Presses

  "On the one hand ..." by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2007.

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• A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.

  Percy Ross

  Clever, Humorous, Doors

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• I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.

  Harold Prince

  Emotional, Nine, Saws

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• Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through.

  James Wolcott

  Blow, Years, Wish

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• Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Reading, Active

  "Khaled Hosseini on And the Mountains Echoed". Interview with Lois Alter Mark, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2013.

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• Humans in modern societies are driven by a perhaps desperate hope that they might find some way of mobilizing their theoretical and empirical knowledge and their evaluative systems so as both to locate themselves and their projects in some larger imaginative structure that makes sense to them. ... Furthermore, many modern agents would like it to be the case that the form of orientation which their life has is, if not true, at least compatible with the best available knowledge.

  Raymond Geuss

  Agents, Might, Way

  "Philosophy and Real Politics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2008.

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• I come from theater, and doing period stuff is so whimsical and imaginative and so outside any frame of reference than I have ever had so I prefer that just in terms of fun factor.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Fun, Stuff, Whimsical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My home is such a powerfully imaginative place that the space is almost irrelevant. I think the house I live at on the Hudson is where I belong because it's the only place where I am that I never think about when I'm leaving.

  Toni Morrison

  Home, Thinking, Space

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• Its always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.

  David Almond

  Children, Different, Want

  "A hit from a myth" by Kit Spring, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2003.

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• The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. ... The letter, written in absorbed solitude, is an act of faith: it assumes the presence of humanity: world and self are generated from within: loneliness is courted, not feared. To write a letter is to be alone with my thoughts in the conjured presence of another person. I keep myself imaginative company. I occupy the empty room.

  Vivian Gornick

  Loneliness, Writing, Empty Rooms

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• a scientist or a writer is one who ruminates continuously on the nature of physical or imaginative life, experiences repeated relief and excitement when the insight comes, and is endlessly attracted to working out the idea.

  Vivian Gornick

  Science, Ideas, Work Out

  Vivian Gornick (2013). “Women in Science: Then and Now”, p.30, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Of all the arts the living of a life is perhaps the greatest; to live every moment of life with the same imaginative commitment as the poet brings to a special field.

  Kathleen Raine

  Art, Commitment, Special

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• [Children] use up the same part of my head as poetry does. To deal with children is a matter of terrific imaginative identification. And the children have to come first. It's no use putting off their evening meal for two months.

  Libby Houston

  Children, Two, Matter

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• Much as being active in the antislavery movement of the last century involved more than not engaging in slavery oneself, so joining in an antiviolence movement has to go beyond opting for nonviolence in one's personal life. It calls for engaging in imaginative and forceful practices of nonviolent resistance to violence, including taking a stand toward entertainment violence.

  Sissela Bok

  Joining In, Practice, Movement

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• The nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our imaginative experience.

  Kenneth Clark

  Beauty, Body, Doe

  Kenneth Clark (2015). “The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form: A Study in Ideal Form”, p.370, Princeton University Press

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• The best possible solutions come only from a combination of a rational analysis based on the nature of things, and imaginative reintegration of all the different items into a new pattern, using non-linear brain power

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Brain, Different, Analysis

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• Nevertheless, hateful as saying 'No' always is to an imaginative person, and certain as the offence may be that it will cause to individuals whose own work does not require isolated effort, the writer who is engaged on a book must learn to say it. He must say it consistently to all interrupters; to the numerous callers and correspondents who want him to speak, open bazaars, see them for 'only' ten minutes, attend literary parties, put people up, or read, correct and find publishers for semi-literate manuscripts by his personal friends.

  Vera Brittain

  Book, Party, People

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• It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think the convention a silly one. No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and often far more) worth reading at the age of fifty-except, of course, books of information. The only imaginative works we ought to grow out of are those which it would have been better not to have read at all. A mature palate will probably not much care for crème de menthe: but it ought still to enjoy bread and butter and honey.

  C. S. Lewis

  Children, Reading, Silly

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Not to Learn Irish is to miss the opportunity of understanding what life in this country has meant and could mean in a better future. It is to cut oneself off from ways of being at home. If we regard self-understanding, mutual understanding, imaginative enhancement, cultural diversity and a tolerant political atmosphereas a desirable attainments, we should remember that a knowledge of the Irish language is an essential element in their realisation.

  Seamus Heaney

  Country, Mean, Home

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• History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

  Voltaire

  History, Invention, Series

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• An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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• I said earlier that I do not believe an artist's life throws much light upon his works. I do believe, however, that, more often than most people realize, his works may throw light upon his life. An artist with certain imaginative ideas in his head may then involve himself in relationships which are congenial to them.

  W. H. Auden

  Believe, Artist, Ideas

  "Forewords and Afterwords" by W. H. Auden, ("The Greatest of the Monsters"), (p. 247), 1973.

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