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Source: John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets

“I know how to make films and now I'm able to make films with the resources and the tools that match my imagination, and what filmmaker doesn't want to do that? I feel very fortunate to have that. I don't take it for granted.”

Knows Want Feels Able Film Imagination Know How Resources Tools Granted Fortunate Filmmaker My Imagination

Author:Ava DuVernay

“Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.”

Men Needs Reality Imagination Blind My Imagination Bulbs Blind Man

Author:Tom Waits

“After I had known [Barack Obama] for a while, I remember saying to my partner, "You know, this guy is really ambitious, I think he wants to be Mayor of Chicago." That was the limit of my imagination.”

Thinking Knows Want Remember Guy Imagination Known Limits Partners Barack Chicago Ambitious This Guy My Imagination Mayors

Author:Bill Ayers

“I never start with what lots of people think of as a subject or a theme. They're school words, not art words. So, writing essays busts my arse because the art is in addressing the subject. I find it really difficult and monstrously time-consuming. In an essay I need to employ my imagination but it's indentured in a way it's not when I'm free to make everything up.”

People Thinking Way Needs Writing Art School Difficult Imagination Subjects Art Is Theme Essays My Imagination Consuming Arses Time Consuming Writing Essays

Author:Tim Winton

“The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.”

Men Inspirational Science Opportunity Imagination Imagine Thousand Ten Composer My Imagination Fiddlers

Book:Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering

Source: Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering

“I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.”

Way Feels Reality Imagination Developing Muscles My Imagination

Author:Brit Marling

“The spirit's there and that's not just my imagination. I think if you look at surveys and attitudes among young people, you see it.”

People Ifs Thinking Looks Young Spirit Imagination Attitude My Imagination Surveys

Author:Barack Obama

“It's not only that I want to get things right when I'm composing but that my imagination often gets lost, and then I have to wait until I come back to the path. I think there's an internal force that makes a piece logical from beginning to end; I like to tell stories in music that are unexpected but also logical.”

Thinking Want Ends Stories Lost Force Waiting Imagination Path Pieces Unexpected Internals Logical My Imagination Composing

Author:George Benjamin

“With films it's not usually that I have a particular character I'm looking for; I'll read the character and my imagination will start spinning and I'll go, "Yes, definitely." I'm thinking it would be nice to keep challenging myself.”

Thinking Character Film Imagination Challenges Nice Being Nice My Imagination

Author:Lydia Wilson

“My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.”

Men Said Would Be Parent Imagination Nice Actresses They Said My Imagination

Author:Nicole Kidman

“I have friends say, "Don't you want to have a little you?" The jury's still out on that for me. I don't have a definitive answer, but I do know that I can look back on some of the things I've worked on and some of the things that have literally come out of my imagination and be just as proud of it as if I had created a person. I feel like that shouldn't be of any less value. It can't be because it's what my life is, and I don't want to make it smaller or more palatable just because society tells you to. If you can get comfortable with sacrifice, then you are having it all.”

Values Imagination Sacrifice Proud My Imagination

Author:Sarah Paulson

“I grew up going to the theater. That was one of the nice things my mom did was she took us to plays and symphony concerts and to the museums. Theater captured my imagination. I just loved the idea of that box, which is essentially what a stage is from a certain distance, a box with all this life going on in it. So, I was eleven when I wrote my first play. Of course, it was horrible.”

Imagination Nice Mom Distance My Mom Horrible My Imagination

Author:David Small

“Narrative nonfiction was not my forte. I always wanted to let my imagination run free, and the facts sometimes got in the way. At one point I wanted to illustrate Jack Prelutsky's enchanting poems. Unable to do that, I started devising and improvising my own poems, very raw at first. I immersed myself in verse, writing reams of stuff until it gelled.”

Writing Sometimes Running Imagination Verses My Imagination Enchanting

Author:Douglas Florian

“I myself was terrified during the Second World War. The war started when I was six, and I was so sure that we were going to be bombed and killed. My imagination is my biggest plus and my worst minus.”

World War Imagination Worst War Of The Worlds My Imagination Second World War

Author:Patricia Reilly Giff

“Usually when I'm painting something it takes a lot of focus. I have the room I go into called the white room. In my imagination when I'm really focused I go into that white room and all that's there is me, my painting, and my tools. There's no distraction. When I'm really concentrated I like to have it silent but when I'm doing something that doesn't have to be necessarily perfect, I can just go for it.”

Imagination Perfect Focus Painting Silent Focused Distraction My Imagination

Author:Autumn de Forest

“There are people a lot smarter than me investigating nature versus nurture who would have a lot to say about that, but I think it's an enormous privilege to be born into a family where my parents had enough time to read to me and listen to my stories and foster my imagination. It's a privilege to have time to investigate your imagination. And not to have, like, an amount of stress on you as a kid that prevents you from maturing creatively.”

People Thinking Enough Kids Parent Imagination Stress Mature Nurture My Imagination

Author:Zoe Kazan

“The notion of Victoria should be a ladies' paradise. If men like Victoria's Secret, that's kind of a bonus, but in my imagination they should feel uncomfortable when they're in the store, if there's no mahogany paneling, there's nothing that's welcoming. This is a ladies' paradise. And that thinking goes into the design of the store, the fitting rooms, the fabric, the display. It's all from the lady's point of view. It has nothing to do with men.”

Thinking Men Kind Imagination Secret Design Point Of View Welcome Uncomfortable My Imagination Fitting

Author:Les Wexner

“I'm asked all the time, "Doesn't it feel great to finish the novel?" And the answer to that is, "No." It's sort of a loss to stop a 10-year project, which is an imaginary project in the sense that it's a work of my imagination. The people who I've lived with for 10 years in my imagination are now sort of defunct. To lose them is rather a mournful process - it's not a relief.”

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Author:Bob Shacochis

“What I do is, I'm like a disease that infects real people and I take them over. We can start off in a very journalistic mode describing a character and observing a character - and that's what I do with a lot of characters in my books. And then my imagination eats them alive.”

People Book Real Character Imagination My Imagination Observing

Author:Bob Shacochis

“The illusion of control has to be there, but mostly I'm following characters and the consequences of their own decisions, because a lot of the time they made decisions about what to do or how to behave that I had no idea were coming down the pike. As I would sit and try to inhabit a character, they themselves in my imagination would have quite a bit of free will.”

Trying Character Imagination Decision Illusion Consequence Behave Free Will My Imagination

Author:Bob Shacochis

“I wish I'd known at the beginning that all I really had to do is trust myself. Everything would work out as if by magic once I actually leaned back into my imagination and just let it work, and not question it and not fret about it.”

Wish Imagination Magic Work Out My Imagination

Author:Peter Straub

“I'm not a dancer, so I have to find a movement that belongs to me. I dance within my limits and with my imagination.”

Imagination Dancer My Imagination

Author:Juliette Binoche

“I'm very fortunate, and the movies that I've made, even from the very beginning, have been very eclectic. The thing for me is: Am I emotionally engaged in the idea? Is there something special about it? Does it capture my imagination? So everything that I do is simply something that turns me on. And I have the good fortune to be able to make bigger movies and television that ostensibly pay for the other ones. I don't mean literally finance the movies. But they allow me to work on things for very little pay. I do these things because I love them.”

Mean Imagination Special Finance My Imagination Good Fortune Eclectic

Author:Mark Gordon

“I'm very interested in the question of how we perceive something, how consciousness goes from one thing, like looking at you in your black hat to what it might mean to my imagination and how I would draw that or write that, how I would subjectify you? It's something that is endlessly interesting to me.”

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Author:Hilton Als

“I try to be as faithful as possible to the facts as I understand them, but any story is at least partly a product of the imagination. I can comprehend a lot by immersing myself in all of the information I've collected, but my imagination is what brings it to life, and the bridging of that gap - between the received history and the conceived fiction - is both the most difficult and most enjoyable part of the process for me.”

Trying Difficult Imagination Faithful My Imagination Enjoyable

Author:Jason Lutes

“My work is always based on reality. I'm not an artist that creates works of fiction. I'm not an artist who is in my studio inventing things out of my imagination - everything is based on reality, on real facts.”

Real Reality Artist Imagination My Imagination

Author:Alfredo Jaar

“I've talked to a few writers who have had childhood illnesses. The sense of convalescence - the feeling that you're waiting to become a real person - is quite an interesting thing. You're seeing all of your friends doing amazing things and you're just there, in a void, feeling a bit stupid. I wouldn't be able to say what I'd have been like without it, but maybe I'd be incredibly high-powered and successful. It also forced me to spend most of my time in my imagination.”

Real Feelings Waiting Imagination Interesting Successful Childhood Stupid Illness My Imagination

Author:Evie Wyld

“Not only is hair a part of the body, but because it continues to grow for a time after death, it was considered a symbol of life and spiritual power. Likewise, hair to me is an element of mystery and an intriguing subject that rouses my imagination.”

Spiritual Imagination Mystery My Imagination After Death Intriguing

Author:Hyon Gyon

“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.”

Thinking Writing Character Term Imagination Growing Up Influence Obvious Modest Stereotype My Imagination

Author:Vandana Singh

“I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.”

Ifs Games Winning Given Imagination Basketball Shots My Imagination Violation Lanes Free Throw

Author:Mike Krzyzewski

“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”

“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”

Reason Order Literature Imagination Natural Organs My Imagination Natural Order

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Being on a trapeze is like dreaming. I feel totally outside of myself when I'm flying. You know, designing shoes, my imagination is flying in my drawings.”

Knows Feels Dream Imagination Design Shoes Drawing Flying My Imagination Trapeze

Author:Christian Louboutin

“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”

Inspirational Character Imagination Loneliness Solitude My Imagination Miscellaneous Loner Loneliness And Solitude Great Inspirational

Book:Among my Books, etc

Source: Among my Books, etc

“For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.”

Inspirational Goal Imagination Failing Mechanism My Imagination Cybernetics Power Of Imagination Psycho Cybernetics

Book:Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life

Source: Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life

“I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.”

Trying Art I Can Form Used Imagination Music Is Used To Be Ties Appreciated My Imagination Not Appreciated

Author:Marilyn Manson

“I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.”

World Book Age Earth Desire Imagination Saws Middle Mars My Imagination Middle Earth

Author:George R. R. Martin

“I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.”

Feels I Can Real Character Stories Reading Imagination Havens Scripts My Imagination

Author:Tatiana Maslany

“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.”

“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”

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