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• Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

  Margot Asquith

  Signposts, Symbols

  Margot Asquith (1933). “More Memories”

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• We will destroy you,” the Flyboys droned. “You have no escape.” That was the most imaginative, threatening thing the whitecoats had programmed these ’droids to say? “Talk about lame,” Fang muttered.

  James Patterson

  Lame, Threatening, Fangs

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1”, p.672, Hachette UK

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• Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Technology, Simple, People

  "Are we back to the 1930s again? Here's why we shouldn't panic" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2013.

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• My own way of thinking is very conservative, very linear and not particularly imaginative, but if I look for things in different places, sometimes things happen.

  Christopher Walken

  Thinking, Different, Looks

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• Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding - and He has a sense of humor.

  Jean Webster

  Heaven, Understanding, Forgiving

  Jean Webster (2004). “Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy”, p.59, Penguin

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• Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through.

  James Wolcott

  Blow, Years, Wish

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• And when I look at a history book and think of the imaginative effort it has taken to squeeze this oozing world between two boards and typeset, I am astonished. Perhaps the event has an unassailable truth. God saw it. God knows. But I am not God. And so when someone tells me what they heard or saw, I believe them, and I believe their friend who also saw, but not in the same way, and I can put these accounts together and I will not have a seamless wonder but a sandwich laced with mustard of my own.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Believe, Book, Taken

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.95, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I've never put Northern Ireland into a novel because it's not my territory. I come from the South, so my imaginative territory is very much the Republic of Ireland rather than the North. Even though, if I wrote a novel about the North, it might sell more.

  Colm Toibin

  Territory, Republic, Might

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• I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.

  Mary Karr

  Smart, Enough, Form

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• There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.

  Rita Mae Brown

  People, Creative, Fiction

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• So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

  John Drinkwater

  Kind, Failing, Mood

  John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”

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• When I was little, I put on plays for my family at Sunday dinner, and I would direct them and have all my cousins, my brother, and my best friends in it. I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera. It was like make-believe to me.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Brother, Cousin, Children

  "Kirsten Dunst Relies on Intuition and Years of Experience to Serve the Role". Interview with Jessica Gardner, www.backstage.com. November 2, 2011.

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• Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber, a handsome and imaginative landscape, crowded with constant small changes of scene and full of little creeks winding with pools where shiners, crappies and catfish hover.

  Paul Engle

  Country, Small Changes, Iowa

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• There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Challenges, World, Fantasy

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• Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Reading, Active

  "Khaled Hosseini on And the Mountains Echoed". Interview with Lois Alter Mark, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2013.

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• God is only a great imaginative experience.

  D. H. Lawrence

  God, Fake People, Atheism

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

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• Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

  Walter Lippmann

  Understanding, Ideals, Desirable

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.392, Harvard University Press

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• For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much.

  Hilary Mantel

  Too Much, Facts, Presses

  "On the one hand ..." by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2007.

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• As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.

  Meredith Monk

  Artist, Thinking, Challenges

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• Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.

  Peter Mullan

  Catholic, Church, Connections

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• As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

  Patton Oswalt

  People, Acting, Method

  "Patton Oswalt Talks YOUNG ADULT, Charlize Theron, Future Projects, and More at SBIFF". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 5, 2012.

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• It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

  Cesare Pavese

  Children, Believe, Imagination

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• I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.

  Harold Prince

  Emotional, Nine, Saws

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• A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.

  Percy Ross

  Clever, Humorous, Doors

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• I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.

  Zoe Saldana

  Beautiful, Girl, Fiction

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