My Imagination Quotes - Page 18

• I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can fly free.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Feet, Imagination, Bits

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• I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Lying, Imagination, Expectations

  "The Heidi chronicles and other plays". Book by Wendy Wasserstein, November 18, 1988.

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• I was always fascinated by the absurdities and luxuries and the snobbism of the world that fashion magazines showed. Of course, it’s not for everyone...But I lived in that world, not only during my years in the magazines business but for years before, because I was always of that world-- at least in my imagination.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Years, Luxury

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• My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive.

  Haruki Murakami

  Animal, Imagination, Alive

  "Haruki Murakami: 'My lifetime dream is to be sitting at the bottom of a well'" by Marta Bausells, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2014.

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• I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons.

  Billy Collins

  Brother, Creativity, Thinking

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• Certainly I've lived my whole life through my imagination. But the world of imagination is there for all of us--a sense of play, of pretending, of wonder. It's there with us as we live.

  Jim Henson

  Play, Imagination, World

  Jim Henson (2007). “Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider”, p.49, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer. Ions might charge the air but they fell flat when it came to charging the imagination - my imagination, anyway.

  David Sedaris

  Air, Ions, Imagination

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.

  Idris Elba

  Character, Imagination, Dumb

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• On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.

  Emile Hirsch

  Self, Imagination, Acting

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• I don't suppose that hard work, discipline, and a perfectionist attitude toward my work did me any harm. They are a big part of my makeup today, as any of my co-workers will tell you. And when life seemed unbearable, I learned to live in my imagination, and to step inside other people's skins- indispensable abilities for an actress.

  Lucille Ball

  Attitude, Hard Work, Makeup

  "Love, Lucy" by Lucille Ball, (pp. 9-10), 1996.

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• My imagination has always been inspired by nature’s vision

  Gregory Colbert

  Imagination, Vision, Inspired

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• All i have in my life is my imagination

  Woody Allen

  Imagination, Life Is

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• Thought for Today: I dream big! I let go of any limitations on my imagination, and I give voice to my inner wisdom and creative impulses. I shed past fears and doubts, replacing them with courage and love. I nurture my future with the same care that I would give to a newborn baby.

  Doreen Virtue

  Letting Go, Dream, Baby

  FaceBook post by Doreen Virtue from Dec 09, 2012

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• All my desires are born of my dreams. And I have proven my love with words. To what fantastic creatures have I entrusted myself, in what dolorous and ravishing world has my imagination enclosed me? I am sure of having been loved in the most mysterious of domains, my own. The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love. My amorous imagination has always been constant and high enough so that nothing could attempt to convince me of error.

  Paul Eluard

  Dream, Errors, Imagination

  Paul Eluard, “At The Window”

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• I have the world's best job. I get paid to hang out in my imagination all day.

  Stephen King

  Jobs, Best Job, Imagination

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• Religion and anger has gone together a lot, historically. My father, being very religious and angry, was trying to reconcile the ideas of love and forgiveness with damage in his own heart. We historically create God in the image of someone who will redeem us, or someone who has damaged us. A lot of my imaginations of God was a projection of my own damage because of my father. God is good but he has a lot of expectations, of which I have failed -- just like my dad. But I don't think it's truthful to create God as a projection of either our damage or our altruism.

  William P. Young

  Religious, Dad, Father

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• I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

  Beverly Cleary

  Book, Imagination, Stories

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• There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present.

  Washington Irving

  Morning, Book, Home

  Washington Irving (1843). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq. (Wasington Irving)”, p.172

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• Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by Bach, Telemann, and the like.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Imagination, Chamber Music

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

  Cornelia Funke

  Dragons, Years, Imagination

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• I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

  Leslie Banks

  Writing, Imagination, Genre

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• I've basically made a career out of my imagination. I feel very lucky.

  Kat Dennings

  Careers, Imagination, Lucky

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

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• I was brought up in a very open, rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phones. If your lights went out, you were lit by candlelight for a good four days before they can get to you. And so, my imagination was crazy.

  Juno Temple

  Crazy, Phones, Light

  "Juno Temple Talks LITTLE BIRDS, Sexuality vs. Violence in Film, and Playing a Fairy in MALEFICENT" by Christina Radish, collider.com. August 28, 2012.

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• The first draft you're pretty much on your own, so I love that. I can let my imagination go wild. I just go crazy. Then, over the years - it takes years to write these things, to make these things come to pass - there are many, many, many drafts. For Maleficent, there were at least 15.

  Linda Woolverton

  Crazy, Writing, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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