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• I don't really like watching my stuff. It makes me feel sick. You imagine you look a certain way in your head, and when it looks even the slightest bit different from what you imagine, you go, 'Rubbish!'

  Robert Pattinson

  Careers, Sick, Acting

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• There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood what women want and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic.

  Germaine Greer

  Coffee, Home, Men

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• We intend to make this world the most beautiful, glorious planet that any human being can imagine and, really, beyond anything any human being can imagine.

  Hafsat Abiola

  Beautiful, Black History, World

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• One of the pitfalls about writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise-beyond-their-years creatures or these sad-eyed tragic people. And the truth is, people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer. They're every bit as funny and complex and diverse as anyone else.

  John Green

  Wise, Cancer, Writing

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• Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.

  Paracelsus

  Writing, Fruit, Grapes

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.117, Princeton University Press

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• A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.

  John Irving

  Jobs, Memories, Writing

  John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket

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• Contrary to what many of you may imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that one is frequently called upon to sit down and write.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Careers, Letters

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.161, Vintage

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• Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Writing, Looking Back

  Journal, July 1922

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• To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.

  Eudora Welty

  Writing, Story Writers, Doe

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• In literature, you know only what you imagine

  Carlos Fuentes

  Writing, Literature, Knows

  Carlos Fuentes (2012). “This I Believe: An A-Z of a Writer's Life”, p.339, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed in 1913-14. In blitz games he gave all the St. Petersburg players odds of five minutes to one - and he won.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Player, Thinking, Odds

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• The majority of people imagine a chess master as being a townsman who passes his life in an atmosphere of smoke and play in cafes and clubs: a neurasthenic individual, whose nerves and brains are continually working at tension: a one-sided person who has given up his whole soul to chess.

  Richard Reti

  Play, People, Soul

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• Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Black And White, Reality

  Ansel Adams (1975). “The role of the artist in conservation”

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• Like everyone else in the world, I've been devastated by the loss and suffering of so many in South Asia....As a mother, I cannot imagine the pain that they are experiencing. We can all see that it's going to take a long time for those people to rebuild their lives, and they will need our help for years to come.

  Celine Dion

  Mother, Pain, Loss

  "Brad Pitt bars international journalists; Donald Trump's exes say 'no' to wedding invite; fifth time the charm for David Carradine?". Daily Dish, www.sfgate.com. January 13, 2005.

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• Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Giving Up, Book, White

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.43, Random House

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• I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me.

  Carl Jung

  Tasks, Answers, Might

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• Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And - since women are a majority of the population - we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Life, Brother, Book

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.207, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power.

  Edward Bernays

  Life, Freedom, Exercise

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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• The liberals who demanded equality of taxation on behalf of the poor, for instance, did not imagine that they would obtain progressive taxation to the disadvantage of the well-off, and that they would end up with an arrangement in which taxes are voted by those who do not pay them.

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Philosophy, Progressive Taxation, Political

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• I feel we are so blessed to live in a country where we enjoy so many rights that other countries cannot even begin to imagine. However, it terrifies me that we seem to have lost touch with our connection to the earth. I am concerned that we have risen to such heights of arrogance in our refusal to acknowledge that our earth is rapidly changing in ways that might affect us catastrophically but instead, we hold steadfast to our belief that nothing can happen to us as a people.

  Sheryl Crow

  Country, Blessed, Rights

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• When you imagine that if all these 9 billion people claim all these resources, then the earth will explode.

  Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

  People, Earth, Global Warming

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• Remember always that there not so very much difference between various people as we seem to imagine. Maps and atlases show us countries in different colors. Undoubtedly people do differ from one another, but they resemble each other also a great deal, and it is well to keep this in mind and not misled by colors on the map or by national boundaries.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Country, Color, Differences

  Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi (1963). “India's quest: being letters on Indian history from 'Glimpses of world history.'”, Asia Publishing House

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• For the first time in history, my community has had to use air conditioners. Imagine that, air conditioners in the Arctic.

  Sheila Watt-Cloutier

  Air, Community, Use

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• Imagine if we succeed in inspiring our audiences to reduce their own impacts on climate change by just 1 percent. That would be like turning the state of California off for almost two months.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Inspirational, Impact, Two

  "Rupert Murdoch launches effort to green News Corp.’s operations and programming". grist.org. May 9, 2007.

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• Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control almost like God creating something.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Views, Hands

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