My Imagination Quotes - Page 14

• I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.

  Michel Gondry

  Technology, Thinking, Ideas

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• London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Book, Character, Imagination

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

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• I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.

  Gillian Flynn

  Kids, Secret Places, Ideas

  "Bringing Dark Places to Film: An Interview with Gone Girl Author Gillian Flynn". Interview with Kristin Fritz, www.signature-reads.com. June 29, 2012.

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• I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.

  Lisi Harrison

  Athlete, Imagination, Focus

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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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• I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living.

  Ishmael Beah

  Boys, Imagination, Age

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• I tell my students one of the most important things they need to know is when they are at their best, creatively. They need to ask themselves, What does the ideal room look like? Is there music? Is there silence? Is there chaos outside or is there serenity outside? What do I need in order to release my imagination?

  Toni Morrison

  Order, Imagination, Silence

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• I don't know where creativity comes from, but I think everybody has the ability to be creative. I think what's important about creativity starts when you're very young and how we're allowed to experience our imagination. The people who bring us up and teach us are fundamental in either encouraging creativity or discourging creativity. My imagination was always encouraged.

  Lyle Lovett

  Creativity, Thinking, Imagination

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• Women alone stir my imagination.

  Virginia Woolf

  Imagination

  Virginia Woolf (2014). “Three Guineas (Annotated)”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Why, why, when one writes, does a sort of shackle bind one's imagination? I become conscious of a deadening mediocrity, perhaps a form of mental cowardice, and I long to break free, to let my imagination take wings. It doesn't - yet.

  Winifred Holtby

  Writing, Wings, Long

  Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”

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• These visions which I saw were not in sleep nor in dreams, nor in my imagination nor by bodily eyes or outward ears nor in a hidden place; but in watching, aware with the pure eyes of the mind and inner ear of the heart.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Dream, Heart, Sleep

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• I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.

  Dawn French

  Writing, Past, Imagination

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