“I have been moving around all my life. Going to different schools, living in different houses, shedding old roles, assuming new ones. This way of life is as natural to me as staying in one place is for other people. I do variations on the theme. I return to places where I used to be. I find my old personas. I try them on. If they still fit, I wear them out to a party or a show. If they begin to restrict my movements, I take them off. I am a human being, capable of mimicking anything I see or remember or can imagine.” PeopleIfsWayTryingHumansHas BeensStillsDifferentShowsSchoolRememberMovingLife IsUsedHouseNaturalHuman BeingsPartyRolesImagineMovementIdentityReturnFitCapableAssumingUsed To BeThemeStayingVariationPersonaMimicking Book:Falling Through Space Source: Falling Through Space
“I used to be and I still am into psychology. I would like to be able to pursue something like that, but I don't know. The older I've gotten, the more endearing this business has become and I can't really imagine leaving it” KnowsStillsI CanAbleUsedPsychologyImagineLeavingPursueUsed To BeEndearing Author:Lindsey Shaw
“For what I can imagine and feel and think and hear, I can hardly do anything on the acoustic bass. It used to be just pure frustration of imagining so much more and being able to get to a certain level of execution.” ThinkingFeelsI CanAbleUsedCertainLevelsImaginePureUsed To BeFrustrationExecutionBassAcoustics Author:Esperanza Spalding
“It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.” UsedCultureImagineConversationUsed To BeGenesGenetics Author:Nicholas A. Christakis
“Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.” UsedImagineInfluenceEnglandUsed To BeFranceDiplomats Author:Nadine Gordimer
“So much of what we understand comes from knowing what something is and what that something used to be, which allows us to figure out, or at least imagine, what happened in between.” UsedKnowingImagineHappenedFiguresUsed To Be Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson