Imagine That Quotes - Page 8

• I like to imagine that all the choices you make during the day that you're doing a particular scene are going to feed into the creation of that scene. It's not a movie-by-movie or a part-by-part basis. It's a day-by-day thing, and sometimes an hour-by-hour thing.

  Thomas Jane

  Choices, Sometimes, Imagine

  Source: collider.com

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• They're people who probably imagine that they would have had a better time in the past. I wouldn't imagine you'd encounter a lot of black people saying 'Oh, the '50s, that was when America was great.' It's very dangerous because the past was imperfect, and you can't go back anyway.

  Christine Jennings

  Past, America, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For a while I just couldn't imagine that there was a place for me in nonfiction. I looked around at what we were calling nonfiction and I thought, "Maybe you do have to go to poetry in order to do this other weird thing in nonfiction."

  John D'Agata

  Order, Calling, Nonfiction

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• And Grandmother Hall really imagines that she can raise Eleanor and her two brothers differently than these children were raised. And if she is very strict and everything is very regimented and ordered and disciplined, that they will become the perfect children who her own children did not become.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Brother, Children, Grandmother

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have no idea why she quieted down on the subject. Maybe she was told to. I can imagine that it wasn't a very popular position in the Administration, with her own husband having ordered by executive order the internment. Maybe she was just told: "Look, we're in a war now. Turn off your social conscience."

  William A. Rusher

  Husband, War, Order

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Imagine that each time you inhale, that the universe is breathing into you, and as you exhale it is breathing out of you.

  Andrew Weil

  Breathing, Imagine, Inhale

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• I imagine that when I am creating a song or a project or an album or putting some clothing together or cooking a meal, whatever it is, I don't really have a recipe. The fun part is to throw that big piece of clay in the middle of the table as hard as I can, and whatever shape it takes, that's what shape it takes, and then I start to carve away.

  Erykah Badu

  Song, Fun, Creating

  Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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• It is a mistake to imagine that you can awaken in any kind of permanent way. There is only NOW and so you can only be awake now. Even the idea of permanence is an illusion. The question to ask is 'Am I awake and fully present NOW?' That question arises and is answered in perfect silence.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Mistake, Ideas, Perfect

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• When we fall in love and we have a first kiss with someone, we never ever imagine that someday that could be a last kiss.

  Taylor Swift

  Falling In Love, Kissing, First Kiss

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• Do not imagine that Art is something which is designed to give gentle uplift and self-confidence . Art is not a brassiere. At least, not in the English sense. But do not forget that brassiere is the French word for life-jacket.

  Julian Barnes

  Uplifting, Art, Self Confidence

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• Don't imagine that you'll discover {the truth} by accumulating more knowledge. Knowledge creates doubt, and doubt makes you ravenous for more knowledge. You can't get full eating this way.

  Laozi

  Truth, Doubt, Way

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• New things always have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow. It is sheer fantasy to imagine that the cause of socialism is all plain sailing and easy success, without difficulties and setbacks or the exertion of tremendous efforts.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Effort, Sailing

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.104, Lulu.com

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• I think we'd be very foolish to expect that we can just import everything from somewhere else and imagine that that's going to last for ever and ever and ever

  Prince Charles

  Thinking, Somewhere Else, Lasts

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• I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.

  Tony Hillerman

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone better qualified than me would come forward.

  John Amery

  Afterlife, Tonight, Radio

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• I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Effort, Humanity, Would Be

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.129, I.B.Tauris

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• Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.

  Helen Keller

  Heart, People, World

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.28, American Foundation for the Blind

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• I can imagine that if you're a kid growing up somewhere, where you might be gay or you think you're gay, but you don't know who else would be ... you become very closeted.

  Rib Hillis

  Growing Up, Kids, Gay

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• My [singing] style really has no style, because I try to sing each number differently. I’ve always believed that if style takes precedent over the words and music, the audience get’s cheated. It’s like when people see a fine play or movie. They imagine themselves in the leading role. I want them to imagine that they’re singing - not just listening to someone else.

  Judy Garland

  Play, Numbers, People

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• Imagine that you had discovered gold or oil on a certain property, and no one else knew about it. Can you see yourself being sad and feeling deprived for having to gather all your resources and sacrifice them in order to buy that property? Hardly. Now you know what it is like to deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Jesus.

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Order

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• When you think of the costs of cancer care, one can imagine that drugs like checkpoint blockers or transfer of these T lymphocytes are actually cost-saving, just as treatments for hepatitis C, while expensive, overall save money by preventing hepatitis and hep - hepatocarcinoma in patients.

  Laurie Glimcher

  Cancer, Thinking, Drug

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• I'll be the first to admit I wasn't very happy doing what I did [escorting] nor was I very talented at it, so perhaps that's what worked to make it boring for me. However it's hard for me to imagine that a lot of young women who would enjoy and be good at being an escort.

  Marie Calloway

  Firsts, Boring, Imagine

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mistake, Passion, Ambition

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• I'd say imagine that you wake up one morning when you're going through a midlife crisis. You're getting divorced. Your kids won't speak to you. Their faces are covered with acne, and you have to decide why you should get out of bed. That's the career you should pick. The one that keeps you going no matter what, even if your life is falling apart. That's how I feel about my career.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Morning, Fall, Kids

  "Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The “The African Americans” Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com. October 15, 2013.

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• To try and imagine that I'm another person is always going to be hard - whether I'm writing about a truck driver or someone who is gay, who's trans, who is of a different ethnicity or creed. But it would be boring if I always had to write about myself and my limited viewpoint.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Writing, Gay, Ethnicity

  "In a Galaxy Far, Far Away From Comic Book Bigotry, Black and Queer Heroes Rule". Interview with Miles E. Johnson, www.motherjones.com. December 17, 2015.

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