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“For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I'm writing, I simply read my way out of being stuck. You can never waste time reading.”

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Author:Cynthia Kadohata

“Come, enter into my imagination and see me as I truly am.”

Imagination My Imagination

Book:Never Let Go

Source: Never Let Go

“I feel like my imagination was crafted by Tolkien. He seemed to tap into that childhood intrigue of secret doors and hidden worlds.”

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Author:Richard Armitage

“No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.”

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Book:Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Hayward Gallery, London, 11 February to 29 March 1981 : a selection from the exhibition Edward Hopper, the art and the artist held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from 16 September 1980 to 25 January 1981

Source: Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Hayward Gallery, London, 11 February to 29 March 1981 : a selection from the exhibition Edward Hopper, the art and the artist held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from 16 September 1980 to 25 January 1981

“The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination.”

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Author:Ashleigh Brilliant

“Films are dreams. Many, many critics say to me that my films are not good because they are too unbelievable, but this is my style. I tell stories like they are dreams. This is my imagination. For me, it would be impossible to do a film that is so precise, that resembles real life.”

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Author:Dario Argento

“Being on set and seeing all that green screen, and how it activated my imagination, was amazing to me. I fell into that world very easily, and it was incredible to be a part of.”

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Author:Dennis Haysbert

“I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.”

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Author:Stanley Kubrick

“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.”

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Author:Linda Woolverton

“I guess I'm not really involving my imagination to that of a circumstance or happening - I'm just kind of acknowledging it as an existence.”

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Author:Keanu Reeves

“My imagination creates my reality.”

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Author:Walt Disney

“One time my mom tried to send me to my room for a time-out when I was 5 or 6, and I was like, "Fine! I like my room! All my imagination and toys are in my room!" I will never forget that. And she will never forget that.”

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Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.”

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Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“Part of what I love about television is that my imagination gets to keep going. It doesn't stop.”

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Author:Katee Sackhoff

“The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations.”

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Author:Robert Collier

“I'm always looking for something to engage my imagination and take me on a little mental voyage. I just want a new topic in my life.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“On the other hand, although I have a regular work schedule, I take time to go for long walks on the beach so that I can listen to what is going on inside my head. If my work isn't going well, I lie down in the middle of a workday and gaze at the ceiling while I listen and visualize what goes on in my imagination.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.”

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Author:Lauren Bacall

“I get to draw what I like to draw, basically people hangin' around, and write very humanistic kinds of situations and characters. But I do also like to draw adventure stories - more in terms of drawing them than writing them - and letting my imagination go wild.”

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Author:Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

“I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from reading novels. The understatements in the tenor saxophone of Lester Young, the crystal, haunting, forever searching sounds of John Coltrane, and the softness and violence of Count Basie's big band - all have fired my imagination as much as anything in literature.”

“Although I get a lot of ideas from things that have happened in my life, I see the final product as a place where my imagination meets my experience. What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems.”

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Author:Laurel Nakadate

“Ideas for songs can come from something as simple as a photograph and letting my imagination run wild on an old photograph that I found, or to a film that I have seen or to just most of the time, just daily walking through life and keeping your eyes open.”

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Author:PJ Harvey

“I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with my imagination, ever since I was a kid.”

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Author:Peter Robinson

“At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in my imagination. If the notion is good enough, if it truly belongs to you, then you can't forget it-it will haunt you till it's written.”

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Book:Truman Capote: Conversations

Source: Truman Capote: Conversations

“I hate to recreate the whole world into my imagination.”

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Author:Ludivine Sagnier

“I'll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated than just that it seems like it would make a good story.”

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Author:Jim Shepard

“Growing up, Catholic church really was such an incubator for my imagination, because all of those mysteries felt embedded in this insanely green, tropical landscape: the ocean nearby, the giant banyan trees. It all felt part of one seamless mystery to me.”

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Author:Karen Russell

“I love young adult fantasies. While I say that, I have not seen all of the Twilight and Harry Potter movies. But I've read all of the books, and I love them. I love them because I enjoy being transported to a different world and having my imagination challenged. That's a huge part of what we do as actors. We have to imagine ourselves in a different world. And when you are in a young adult fantasy, it challenges you in the best way.”

“My fictional worlds were those of a fabulist, of an intellectual fantasist. I was the lawgiver, and the countries and inhabitants of my imagination were answerable to me. If I wished for a man to levitate; to enter another's story by rowboat or by intoning a sentence or by performing a shadow-puppet play; if I wanted him to become a swarm of intelligent elementary particles and enter the Internet and travel into the past and far into the future, it was so.”

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Author:Norman Lock

“When my youngest daughter got married, I designed her wedding dress and I really let my imagination and energy go crazy! All the journalists seemed to love that dress.”

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Author:Kansai Yamamoto

“Of course, I had a paradigm of a certain city in my head when I wrote these stories, a city that inspired my imagination, but it was only inspiration.”

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Author:Said Sayrafiezadeh

“I was never a big reader as a kid. My imagination wasn't captured by books very often. It was captured more often by boys and partying and riding horses.”

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Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell

“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”

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Author:Francis Bacon

“It is a bit more challenging for the simple fact that now the stories I am writing are relying more on my imagination than on facts, more on research than on memory; so it is basically a slower writing process, more reading, more exploring. On the other hand, this approach is a little bit relieving too, since many times while writing [How the Soldieer Repairs the Gramophone] I felt too close and equal to my character.”

“I love that I live a creative life. It is in the work that I do - acting, writing, and directing. It's also in the mindfulness of every part of my life, from a meal that I prepare for family and friends to putting my imagination to work in a garden.”

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Author:Regina Taylor

“I need paper and pen to release my imagination. I can't create on a machine.”

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Author:Brian Pinkerton

“I just try to put myself in the sense of being a character, sometimes male. I suppose I just like the idea of trying to be different people coming from all kinds of different angles. Most of it was just from my imagination.”

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Author:Kate Bush

“When I got the beat, in my imagination I was catapulted into this club where all the boys and girls are looking hot and wearing amazing clothes, and there's this girl dancing and looking better than me.”

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Author:Katy B

“I love working with technology because it allows me to follow my imagination and to invent new things.”

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Author:Tod Machover

“I was very withdrawn and definitely played with dolls well into eighth grade. But I was the oldest of nine, and that grounded me in a way that I don't think I would have been grounded otherwise. So I was able to - or forced to - function practically. But I think, by nature, I was someone who lived in my head, in my imagination.”

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Author:Susan Sarandon

“Philip Larkin didn't write for several years before his life ended. And when he was asked why he didn't write, he said the muse deserted him. And when I read that, it really had a profound effect upon me, sort of scared me. So that's why I think I have no right to assume that some thought is going to come... But I think, in my imagination, if it is it, there will probably be something else I'm interested in.”

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Author:Paul Simon

“I do sculpting sometimes when I have the time, and the first thing I sculpted was a bust of [Albert] Einstein. It still sits on my table and still inspires me. He was a person who triggered my imagination and my ideas.”

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Author:Vandana Shiva

“I find that biographical material holds me back, hampers my creative process, cramps my imagination.”

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Author:Yuriy Tarnawsky

“All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.”

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Author:Tommy Lee Jones

“With all the movies I've made about history, it's not really fun because you're trying to get it right. You've got history telling how it was, and then my imagination is telling me how I wish it had been, but I can't go there, so I have to censor myself. I'm very good about stopping myself from creating history that never occurred, but it's frustrating.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“I think my imagination and my passions are still firing away, but it's really the body that starts to make up the rules. It's not a major problem; it's just when you get a little older you realize how much your body thanks you when you are good to it.”

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Author:Rufus Wainwright

“Imagination is the eye of the soul.”

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Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.”

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Author:Joseph Joubert

“A man said to me, "You talk to your dead guru?" And I said, "Yeah." He said, "That's in your imagination." And I said, "Yeah!" Because my guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere.”

Men Said Imagination Yeah My Imagination Guru

Author:Ram Dass