My Imagination Quotes - Page 15

• My best investment is my imagination because it has never failed to bring me my greatest return.

  Randy Castillo

  Imagination, Return, Investment

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• I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.

  Sam Raimi

  Imagination, Monsters, Stories

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• It wasn't until I had performed by first autopsy that I realized that even the drabest human exteriors could contain the most beautiful viscera. After that, I would console myself for the plainness of my fellow bus-riders by dissecting them in my imagination.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Beautiful, Imagination, Firsts

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• I always drink at lunchtime. It helps my imagination.

  Colin Dexter

  Imagination, Helping, Drink

  "Fictional character: Chief Inspector Morse". "Inspector Morse/ The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn", www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• Words, words, word. Once, I had the gift. I could make love out of words as a potter makes cups of clay. Love that overthrows empire. Love that binds two hearts together, come hellfire & brimstone. For sixpence a line, I could cause a riot in a nunnery. But now -- I have lost my gift. It's as if my quill is broken, as if the organ of my imagination has dried up, as if the proud -illegible word- of my genius has collapsed.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Heart, Two, Broken

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• That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes. I closed my eyes, sick of the riddles, and to my surprise all I could see were dandelions-as if they had been painted on the fields of my imagination, a hundred thousand suns. And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mistake, Eye, Men

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• It's no good. I've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour, and I can't. Writing here is a sort of drug. It's the only thing I look forward to. This afternoon I read what I wrote... And it seemed vivid. I know it seems vivid because my imagination fills in all the bits another person wouldn't understand. I mean, it's vanity. But it seems a sort of magic... And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did

  John Fowles

  Writing, Mean, Sleep

  John Fowles (2010). “The Collector”, p.165, Random House

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• I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Imagination, Alive, World

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• I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

  Edi Gathegi

  Thinking, Imagination, Preparation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent.

  Frank Abagnale

  School, Son, Boys

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• I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

  Chris Cooper

  Imagination, Research, Life Experience

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• I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

  Andrew Bird

  Imagination, Literature, Dry

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.

  Judy Blume

  Ideas, Imagination, Seems

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• From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.

  Hayley Atwell

  Imagination, Age, Stories

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• I've always loved comic books. As a kid, I used to read cowboy stories and historical comics about other worlds, unknown places that would take me out of myself and which helped to develop my imagination.

  James Herbert

  Book, Kids, Cowboy

  "Cultureshock: Novelist James Herbert and daughter Casey exchange experiences". www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2006.

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• To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.

  Andre Breton

  Betrayal, Mean, Justice

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• I wasn't born in New York and I may never live there again, and just thinking about it makes me melancholy, but I was changed forever by it, my imagination is manacled to it, and I wear its mark the way you wear a scar. Whatever happens, whether I like it or not, New York City is fated always to remain my home.

  Luc Sante

  New York, Home, Thinking

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• I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.

  Michel Gondry

  Technology, Thinking, Ideas

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• London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Book, Character, Imagination

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.

  Gillian Flynn

  Kids, Secret Places, Ideas

  "Bringing Dark Places to Film: An Interview with Gone Girl Author Gillian Flynn". Interview with Kristin Fritz, www.signature-reads.com. June 29, 2012.

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• Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

  Criss Jami

  Life, Imagination, Missing

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.61, Criss Jami

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• I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.

  Amy Waldman

  Writing, Character, Years

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• Christ himself came down and took possession of me. . . I had never foreseen the possibility of that, of a real contact, person to person, here below, between a human being and God. . . in this sudden possession of me by Christ, neither my sense nor my imagination had any part: I only felt in the midst of my suffering the presence of a love.

  Simone Weil

  Real, Imagination, Christian Love

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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• I really like dating stories, like in Betty and Veronica comics; I like David Lynch and H.P. Lovecraft for the dark gut-wrenching stuff, and I'm inspired by Miyazaki's films for the subtle heart-warming moments, as well as the moments that blew up my imagination.

  Fred Seibert

  Heart, Dark, Imagination

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