My Imagination Quotes - Page 12

• My imagination is more tweaked by imagining the lives of the people who were there before us. I don't need to give myself the willies. I'm quite good at that - I can freak myself out wherever I am.

  Gillian Flynn

  People, Giving, Imagination

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• You can say the president's private life takes up so much of his time that he doesn't focus on his job, so therefore he's terrible. But in my imagination, the 23 hours of the day that we don't experience, he's very hard at work. He's quite an effective and successful president - in my narcissistic imagination.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Jobs, Successful, Imagination

  "President Fitz (R-Scandal) Explains What’s Wrong With the Republican Party". Interview with Patrick Caldwell, www.motherjones.com. September 24, 2014.

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• Dreams are more powerful than facts.

  Robert Fulghum

  Hope, Dream, Powerful

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.8, Ivy Books

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• My mother's people, the people who captured my imagination when I was growing up, were of the Deep South - emotional, changeable, touched with charisma and given to histrionic flourishes. They were courageous under tension and unexpectedly tough beneath their wild eccentricities, for they had and unusually close working agreement with God. They also had an unusually high quota of bullshit.

  Willie Morris

  Mother, Growing Up, Emotional

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• Part of what I love about television is that my imagination gets to keep going. It doesn't stop.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Imagination, Television, Keep Going

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm always looking for something to engage my imagination and take me on a little mental voyage. I just want a new topic in my life.

  Steve Martin

  Imagination, Want, Littles

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• I wish I'd known at the beginning that all I really had to do is trust myself. Everything would work out as if by magic once I actually leaned back into my imagination and just let it work, and not question it and not fret about it.

  Peter Straub

  Work Out, Imagination, Magic

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The illusion of control has to be there, but mostly I'm following characters and the consequences of their own decisions, because a lot of the time they made decisions about what to do or how to behave that I had no idea were coming down the pike. As I would sit and try to inhabit a character, they themselves in my imagination would have quite a bit of free will.

  Bob Shacochis

  Character, Imagination, Decision

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What I do is, I'm like a disease that infects real people and I take them over. We can start off in a very journalistic mode describing a character and observing a character - and that's what I do with a lot of characters in my books. And then my imagination eats them alive.

  Bob Shacochis

  Real, Book, Character

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I grew up going to the theater. That was one of the nice things my mom did was she took us to plays and symphony concerts and to the museums. Theater captured my imagination. I just loved the idea of that box, which is essentially what a stage is from a certain distance, a box with all this life going on in it. So, I was eleven when I wrote my first play. Of course, it was horrible.

  David Small

  Mom, Nice, Distance

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• With films it's not usually that I have a particular character I'm looking for; I'll read the character and my imagination will start spinning and I'll go, "Yes, definitely." I'm thinking it would be nice to keep challenging myself.

  Lydia Wilson

  Nice, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I do sculpting sometimes when I have the time, and the first thing I sculpted was a bust of [Albert] Einstein. It still sits on my table and still inspires me. He was a person who triggered my imagination and my ideas.

  Vandana Shiva

  Ideas, Imagination, Inspire

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I love that I live a creative life. It is in the work that I do - acting, writing, and directing. It's also in the mindfulness of every part of my life, from a meal that I prepare for family and friends to putting my imagination to work in a garden.

  Regina Taylor

  Writing, Garden, Imagination

  "Golden Globe and NAACP Image Award winner Regina Taylor: Living a creative life". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It is a bit more challenging for the simple fact that now the stories I am writing are relying more on my imagination than on facts, more on research than on memory; so it is basically a slower writing process, more reading, more exploring. On the other hand, this approach is a little bit relieving too, since many times while writing [How the Soldieer Repairs the Gramophone] I felt too close and equal to my character.

  Sasa Stanisic

  Memories, Reading, Character

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was never a big reader as a kid. My imagination wasn't captured by books very often. It was captured more often by boys and partying and riding horses.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Horse, Party, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm not a scientist. I just read articles that are interesting and that capture my imagination, but I think there's a reason why there's so much faith placed in science.

  Kevin Feige

  Thinking, Imagination, Interesting

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be an integral part of all God's joyous world.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Imagination, Mind, World

  Leo Tolstoy (1998). “The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories”, p.312, Oxford University Press, USA

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• When I have something to work against, it liberates my imagination. I believe very much in authentic inspiration. I'm not about calculation.

  Jørgen Leth

  Believe, Inspiration, Imagination

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The greatest experience I've ever had in a movie theater was watching "Star Wars." It shaped how I look at the world. My imagination was so small before I went in that theater and there was an explosion in my head. I just couldn't figure out how someone came up with it.

  Will Smith

  Stars, War, Imagination

  "Will Smith Returns as Agent J in ‘MIB3’". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. May 14, 2012.

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• I remember when I was a kid, when I just used to love listening to something again and again and over and over. You know, everybody else got sick of it, but I loved that discovery of music and what it did to my world, to my imagination. And so I started really considering, "Yeah, I've got to do more," for kids, particularly.

  Cat Stevens

  Kids, Discovery, Sick

  Source: www.spin.com

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• Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.

  Jan de Bont

  Creativity, Imagination, Exciting

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• For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth of the Christian horror. Then I said: "It is a lie, and I hate your religion. If it is true, I hate your God." From that day I have had no fear, no doubt. For me, on that day, the flames of hell were quenched. From that day I have passionately hated every orthodox creed. That Sermon did some good.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Christian, Religious, Pain

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• An everlasting tranquility is, in my imagination, the highest possible felicity, because I know of no felicity on earth higher than that which a peaceful mind and contented heart afford.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Heart, Imagination, Heaven

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• An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancyfor building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Islands, Imagination, Mysterious

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.243, Princeton University Press

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• The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but is an instinct. It appeared more beautiful to live low and farehard in many respects; and though I never did so, I went far enough to please my imagination.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Animal, Imagination

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.131, Graphic Arts Books

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