Jessamyn West

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

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Claude Bernard

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

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Danny Boyle

Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

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Danny Boyle

You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

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Elizabeth Wurtzel

It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.

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Elizabeth Wurtzel

My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.

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Haruki Murakami

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.

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Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind.

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Jessica Hagedorn

My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.

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Cyril Connolly

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

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Bryan Cranston

The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.

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Connie Nielsen

If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.

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Eddie Rickenbacker

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

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Joyce Carol Oates

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.

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Janet Jackson

Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it's always been there. It's been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had.

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Janet Jackson

I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.

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Derek Walcott

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

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Martha Gellhorn

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

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John le Carre

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

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J. G. Ballard

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

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Wallace Stevens

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

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George Meredith

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

People can die of mere imagination.

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Eric Bana

I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.

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Joaquin Phoenix

Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.

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Lawrence Durrell

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

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Florence Welch

I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.

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Florence Welch

It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.

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Florence Welch

I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.

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Paul Farmer

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

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Javier Bardem

I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.

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Jarvis Cocker

Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.

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Karen Armstrong

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

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Chris Hemsworth

I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch.

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Courteney Cox

I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.

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Barbara Corcoran

My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?

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Bela Lugosi

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

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Annie Dillard

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

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Duncan Sheik

I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.

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George Henry Lewes

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

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Anna Deavere Smith

I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.

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Russell Page

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

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Sean O'Faolain

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

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Manuel Puig

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

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Jonas Salk

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

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Eartha Kitt

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

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Ella Maillart

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

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Jane Campion

I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?

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Jane Campion

There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats can redeem them, in their fantasy or imagination, in the future. I think Keats' poem 'Endymion' is a really difficult poem, and I'm not surprised that a lot of people pulled it apart in a way.

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Jane Campion

I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.

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