My Imagination Quotes - Page 13

• I don't like super-descriptive modern fiction. I like, "Here's what was happening in 1582 all over the planet." Then that gets my imagination going.

  Andrew Bird

  Imagination, Fiction, Modern

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

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• I don't really know what Americans are like. I've no idea. I know a few things about them. In my imagination, they have warm peachy hearts, whereas the English have horrible spiteful withered hearts - success in England inspires envy - in America, it inspires hope.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Heart, Ideas, America

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I have something to work against, it liberates my imagination. I believe very much in authentic inspiration. I'm not about calculation.

  Jørgen Leth

  Believe, Inspiration, Imagination

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Dreams are more powerful than facts.

  Robert Fulghum

  Hope, Dream, Powerful

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.8, Ivy Books

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• My mother's people, the people who captured my imagination when I was growing up, were of the Deep South - emotional, changeable, touched with charisma and given to histrionic flourishes. They were courageous under tension and unexpectedly tough beneath their wild eccentricities, for they had and unusually close working agreement with God. They also had an unusually high quota of bullshit.

  Willie Morris

  Mother, Growing Up, Emotional

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• Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Wild Imagination, Vivid Imagination

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• You can say the president's private life takes up so much of his time that he doesn't focus on his job, so therefore he's terrible. But in my imagination, the 23 hours of the day that we don't experience, he's very hard at work. He's quite an effective and successful president - in my narcissistic imagination.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Jobs, Successful, Imagination

  "President Fitz (R-Scandal) Explains What’s Wrong With the Republican Party". Interview with Patrick Caldwell, www.motherjones.com. September 24, 2014.

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• My imagination is more tweaked by imagining the lives of the people who were there before us. I don't need to give myself the willies. I'm quite good at that - I can freak myself out wherever I am.

  Gillian Flynn

  People, Giving, Imagination

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Liars, Science, Imagination

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.96, 谷月社

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• The greatest experience I've ever had in a movie theater was watching "Star Wars." It shaped how I look at the world. My imagination was so small before I went in that theater and there was an explosion in my head. I just couldn't figure out how someone came up with it.

  Will Smith

  Stars, War, Imagination

  "Will Smith Returns as Agent J in ‘MIB3’". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. May 14, 2012.

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• My being Indian is possibly the biggest thing that influences my stories. Not just in terms of settings - most of the settings in my stories are Indian - but also in terms of characters and plot. I think growing up in India grew my imagination in certain ways that would not have happened in any other place. I'm also fascinated by the idea of India, and writing stories allows me to explore this. As for thematic elements, they are probably pretty obvious in my stories. I also hope that my stories bust stereotypes at least to a modest extent.

  Vandana Singh

  Growing Up, Writing, Character

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• I wanted to write something visual that I could read to the children. This was when I created the idea of Redwall Abbey in my imagination. As I wrote, the idea grew, and the manuscript along with it.

  Brian Jacques

  Children, Writing, Ideas

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• I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

  Derek Jacobi

  Imagination, Actors, World

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• In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.

  Hari Kunzru

  Imagination, Fiction, Teens

  "When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock" by Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2011.

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• I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Believe, Imagination, Costumes

  "Alessandro Nivola Talks Janie Jones and Redemption". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 01, 2011.

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• Name it... and if you can dream it... you can achieve it.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (2016). “Being in Balance: 9 Principles for Creating Habits to Match Your Desires”, p.26, Hay House, Inc

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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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• 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 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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• 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 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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• The fear and anxiety of baring my soul is transcended by the thrill and honor and wonderfulness of being able to touch and affect so many people... having people look into my mind, my imagination... into my heart and soul.

  Elizabeth Kim

  Heart, People, Imagination

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• I've turned down a lot of stuff. I've read several scripts and said "That's not me, I'm not interested in doing that." It's got to be something that inspires me and captures my imagination. I want to be able to say "There's a challenge.".

  Karl Urban

  Book, Reading, Imagination

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• I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Home, Imagination, Development

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• People were doing business with one another through the Internet already, through bulletin boards. But on the Web, we could make it interactive, we could create an auction, we could create a real marketplace. And that's really what triggered my imagination, if you will, and that's what I did.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Real, People, Imagination

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