Imaginative Quotes - Page 7

• I always have done work on mythic relations since I started writing. I really want to be a novelist, or at least a writer of imaginative work... I do try to make my critical studies imaginative and try to write them in ways that are more like literature than philosophy, but I have disappointed myself because I am still so wedded to criticism.

  Marina Warner

  Philosophy, Writing, Criticism

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I see the carpet reflecting that narratological structure of the storytelling, with Scheherazade as the outside frame story on the outside, with the stories woven on the inside. It's also demonstrative of the infinity of it, with no beginning and no end. The carpet is also a kind of metonym for cinema, this idea that the flat surface carries a terrific depth of imaginative field while remaining totally flat.

  Marina Warner

  Ideas, Depth, Woven

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Form a small group. Five or six people, of people who think the way you do, and are willing to meet regularly, every week, and you will be surprised at what imaginative, gutsy thought and action comes out of that synergy. Takes a while, but there's something that every little group like that can do.

  Ray McGovern

  Thinking, People, Groups

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Real, Writing, Different

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think angels definitely offer all the imaginative possibilities that vampires do, and I think they've actually been popular in Western culture for longer than vampires have been. I hope they become a part of the culture again in a new way.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Angel, Thinking, Vampire

  Source: www.elle.com

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• [Science is] an imaginative adventure of the mind seeking truth in a world of mystery.

  Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

  Adventure, Science, Mind

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• [Reanu Reeves] is a very imaginative actor. He can have this wonderful balance of humor and fear. He's got these skills to be entertaining but also quite terrifying.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Skills, Balance, Actors

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• I'm dyslexic. If you can reconcile yourself to not being able to burn through books, which you shouldn't any way, you can slow the whole process down. Then, because of my disability, there is more for me in imaginative literature than there is for other people.

  Richard Ford

  Book, People, Literature

  "Richard Ford: Pulitzer winner, focused reader". Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. September 15, 2012.

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• I think I'd rather do [acting] in the real place. It requires different things, working with green screen, but its an imaginative exercise anyway, the whole business of acting, so it just gives you a bit more to feed the imagination. Unless it's really silly, just two of you stuck in a space with nothing but green screen that's got to be pretty difficult.

  John Hurt

  Real, Silly, Exercise

  Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

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• [John] Adams was the best and most colorful stylist among the Founders. Although [Tomas] Jefferson is widely regarded as the smoothest writer, Adams is by far the most engaging and imaginative.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Stylist, Founders, Tomas Jefferson

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• The best parts of any story to me are the unexpected things, and we have really imaginative, smart writers - I can't wait to see what they make with the ingredients they have on hand.

  Kirsten Vangsness

  Smart, Waiting, Unexpected

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• Thomas Berry calls the Ecozoic Era, a time when we recognize the imperative of caring for the planet as a means of compassionate survival. We do not know what the outcome is going to be, but we have an opportunity to make these kinds of creative and imaginative leaps of thought and actions both locally and globally. This is completely antithetical to the direction George W. Bush is leading this nation. I do trust that the open space of democracy is ultimately the open space of our hearts and that we can follow our own leadership that carries a long-term view way beyond "four more years."

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Heart, Mean, Caring

  Source: progressive.org

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• Motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson is a prime example of an American company that uses employment conditions to boost productivity. Current CEO James Ziemer - who started with the company while in high school has negotiated imaginative contracts with the unions representing Harley's workers, agreeing to keep production in the U.S. in exchange for constantly reducing total labor costs through automating tasks and changing work rules. Because Harley regularly reassigns workers whose tasks have been automated to other parts of the company.

  James O'Toole

  School, Motorcycle, Ceo

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I think the camera has got to be motivated. You can't have things arrived at gratuitously. Everything has to have an organic function, but the more comfortable I've become and the more imaginative and sophisticated and the more exploratory I've become at the medium, the more I've subtly deviated away from that in various ways.

  Mike Leigh

  Thinking, Sophisticated, Motivated

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If I'm ever working on a set and anyone talks about a master shot, I say there is no master shot. Before I even went to film school, I learned about movies by being in a British feature film, where everything was shot master shot, mid-shot, close-up. But I reject the idea of a master shot. You don't shoot everything mechanically; you find imaginative ways that serve the action.

  Mike Leigh

  School, Action, Film

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Some filmmakers don't want to just entertain, to play with the audience like a little ball and then dump them. They want you to be imaginative, and if you're intrigued, the work will grow on you and you're going to build your own interpretation.

  Emmanuel Benbihy

  Filmmaker, Intrigued, Audience

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• That's really the essence of what any fiction writer does. Some of it is research-based, but most of it is a really long-term, imaginative, empathetic effort to see the world the way someone whose experiences remote from yours might see it. Not every writer works that way; some writers make a wonderful career out of writing books that adhere very closely to how they view the world. The further I go with this, the more interested I get in trying to imagine my way into other perspectives that at first seem foreign to me.

  Jonathan Dee

  Book, Writing, Perspective

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Francis Scott Fitzgerald really read culture pretty damn clearly. It was he who understood that artistic achievement, really imaginative work, goes where the money is. Where people can afford to buy books and paintings. He linked money - not always in a positive way - to being able to encourage culture.

  Nancy Milford

  Book, People, Achievement

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Since I was a graduate student, I've done a lot of journalism on the side, for The Village Voice, The Nation etc. And my greatest passion, as a reader, has always been nonfiction, with its vast, often underestimated imaginative and formal possibilities and its aura of the real. I find that combination seductive.

  Rob Nixon

  Real, Passion, Seductive

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Millennials are first and foremost problem solvers. They are optimistic. They are well educated. They are creative. They are open to change. They are learners. They are technologically savvy. They are open-minded. They are imaginative. They think third-way. They want to achieve. They want to contribute. They are flexible. They are achievement oriented.

  Chip Espinoza

  Optimistic, Thinking, Achievement

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• There are some advantages to being a writer: you do generally get better as you get older. I think I understand things better. When I was a kid, I was kind of guessing at the emotion. Now I'm interested in writing more difficult books, books that confront the facts of life, of death and dying and failure - the majority of life. You write outwardly imaginative books when you're younger. When you're older you apply imagination to internal experience.

  Ethan Canin

  Book, Kids, Writing

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• On the spectrum of imagination, there are people who are more imaginative than others - I guess some kids are hardcore pretenders and have imaginary friends for years and other kids play and they have fun, but it's not quite as specific like that.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Fun, Kids, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Oliver [Goldstick] is a very dynamic and imaginative writer, so the stage directions were visceral and very clearly written.

  Tom Riley

  Stage, Visceral, Written

  Source: collider.com

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• I think [kids] enjoy reading, but it's a different world now. There are a lot of competitors for the imaginative attention.

  David Duchovny

  Reading, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• You ask why London has to 'stand for' anything. One response is that in fact it always inevitably does. One could say at the moment it stands for a complex mix of multiculturalism and financial power. Interestingly, that is a political mix of progressive and oppressive. What I'm arguing is simply that we should take responsibility for the effects of 'our place' around the world. To take responsibility for our embeddedness. If you don't want to, so be it. It does demand an imaginative engagement with our planetary interdependence and that can be quite challenging.

  Doreen Massey

  Responsibility, Political, Challenges

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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