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• As the worldly philosophers of the past affirmed, the goal of economics is to improve the way society functions. In The New Financial Order, Robert Shiller joins this proud tradition by directing his brilliant economic skills toward the creation of financial institutions designed to reduce the risks an unknown future visits on most members of our society and others. Shiller's imaginative and compelling analysis will appeal to all readers who share his passion for initiating not only a richer, but a better, century.

  Peter L. Bernstein

  Passion, Past, Order

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• Every movie I do is challenging for me. There is some element of imaginative that you wouldn't have in a typical movie.

  Michel Gondry

  Challenges, Typical, Elements

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• A lot of people ask, "What do you pull on in your own life from your character?" In all honesty, it's not something that really works that way for me. I tend to look at these things as an imaginative process and a challenge of imagination and empathy, to some degree. I get much more out of meeting people who have lived these lives than I do digging around in my own limited experiences.

  Edward Norton

  Honesty, Character, People

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• That requires quite an imaginative leap because it's hard for me to imagine that my biography would be of much interest to anyone, and because I'm a fairly private person, the notion doesn't appeal to me.

  Debra Dean

  Would Be, Biographies, Imagine

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I always have done work on mythic relations since I started writing. I really want to be a novelist, or at least a writer of imaginative work... I do try to make my critical studies imaginative and try to write them in ways that are more like literature than philosophy, but I have disappointed myself because I am still so wedded to criticism.

  Marina Warner

  Philosophy, Writing, Criticism

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I see the carpet reflecting that narratological structure of the storytelling, with Scheherazade as the outside frame story on the outside, with the stories woven on the inside. It's also demonstrative of the infinity of it, with no beginning and no end. The carpet is also a kind of metonym for cinema, this idea that the flat surface carries a terrific depth of imaginative field while remaining totally flat.

  Marina Warner

  Ideas, Depth, Woven

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I prefer poems that occupy an imaginative sphere. When I lived in Cincinnati, I was occasionally referred to as an "Ohio Poet;" this made me uneasy, not only because I think of myself as a generally American poet but also because I like to think I write out of the country of my own mind.

  Cate Marvin

  Country, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• I definitely go through periods where I'm in a particular mood, or there's a consistent imaginative context that I feel I'm in, and I'm drawn to certain things. I can sometimes feel it when I'm moving away from something that I was once interested in - an idea or an exploration of particular relationships. I go, 'Well, I think I've done that and I don't want to do it again.'

  Tom Hiddleston

  Moving, Thinking, Ideas

  "The Characters of Tom Hiddleston". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 22, 2015.

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• History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

  Voltaire

  History, Invention, Series

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• The nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our imaginative experience.

  Kenneth Clark

  Beauty, Body, Doe

  Kenneth Clark (2015). “The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form: A Study in Ideal Form”, p.370, Princeton University Press

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• That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.

  Graham Greene

  Character, Instinct, Inherent

  "Getting to Know the General: the Story of an Involvement". Book by Graham Greene, 1984.

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• We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least.

  Paul Goodman

  Men, Imagination, Groups

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.89, New York Review of Books

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• Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of institutional art teaching to produce a fine-arts culture given over to information and not experience. This faithfully echoes the drain of concreteness from modern existence- the reign of mere unassimilated data instead of events that gain meaning by being absorbed into the fabric of imaginative life.

  Robert Hughes

  Art, Teaching, Inspiration

  Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.89, Vintage

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• Acting is an imaginative leap, really. And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it's being able - I can't tell you how one does, but one tries to read those circumstances correctly.

  John Hurt

  Imagination, Trying, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The less you offer, the more readers are forced to bring the world to life with their own visual imaginings. I personally hate an illustration of a character on a jacket of a book. I never want to have someone show me what the character really looks like - or what some artist has decided the character really looks like - because it always looks wrong to me. I realize that I prefer to kind of meet the text halfway and offer a lot of visual collaborations from my own imaginative response to the sentences.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Hate, Book, Character

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2007.

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• All the preparation in the world doesn't avail you if you can't make that imaginative leap and put yourself in the position of the characters you've created, to imagine what it's like to be somebody else.

  Michael Chabon

  Character, Preparation, World

  Interview with Elizabeth Benefiel, www.avclub.com. July 5, 2007.

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• I love writing literary stuff. My favorite writer is definitely Edgar Allan Poe - so imaginative and prolific. My second favorite writer would have to be Shakespeare - I love the emotion and human truths he touches on so beautifully.

  MC Lars

  Writing, Stuff, Emotion

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• In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time . . . and yet people seem to be reading [books] as much.

  Douglas Coupland

  Book, Reading, People

  Source: feathertale.com

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• Time and time again we forget all too easily that nonviolent action embraces a wide and imaginative range of behavior which can always be stepped up.

  Petra Kelly

  Action, Forget, Behavior

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• The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.

  Susanna Moodie

  Eye, People, Political

  Susanna Moodie, John Wedderburn Dunbar Moodie (1968). “The Victoria magazine, 1847-1848”

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• History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points of view, belief in simple solutions, lack of balance of mind, absence of an imaginative understanding.

  Geoffrey Elton

  Simple, Views, Understanding

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• I have a personal definition of cartooning, which is, simply, "imaginative drawing." Anything you're drawing that is not in front of you but is a mental construct that you want to express in a drawing is, to me, a cartoon.

  Jim Woodring

  Drawing, Cartoon, Definitions

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com.

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• People who cannot think in an orderly way are apt to suppose themselves more imaginative than others.

  George Albert Wells

  Thinking, People, Way

  George Albert Wells (1991). “Belief and make-believe: critical reflections on the sources of credulity”, Open Court Pub Co

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• No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Streets, Offers

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• The Vores Third Quartet is a terrific piece that brings disparate components into harmony. . . it's celebratory, imaginative, touching, and fun.

  Richard Dyer

  Fun, Touching, Pieces

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