680 private quotes tagged imagination

“I think it's fun to play with worlds that you can add a lot of your own imagination to. With 'True Blood,' you're not limited by anything, there are just leaps and bounds of the imagination you can take with these characters.” — Deborah Ann Woll

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“When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.” — Ahmet Zappa

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“The capacity you're thinking of is imagination without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.” — William Trevor

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“I'd love to play more challenging roles, characters that would stretch my comfort zone and imagination.” — Isabelle Fuhrman

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“I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful.” — Rachel Zoe

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“You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.” — Charles Keating

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“What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.” — Jeffrey Katzenberg

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“It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.” — Michael Apted

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“I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.” — Chris Cooper

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“Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.” — Barbara Januszkiewicz

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“I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?” — Bonnie Jo Campbell

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“Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.” — Terry Wogan

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“Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.” — James Dean

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“I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.” — David Walliams

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“I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.” — Claire Danes

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“Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.” — David Hume

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“Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.” — Louis Aragon

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“The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.” — Vladimir Kramnik

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“Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.” — Karen Thompson Walker

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“Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine.” — Ron Johnson

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“To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.” — George Jean Nathan

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“Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.” — Tom Stoppard

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“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.” — Marilyn Manson

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“I don't think art is propaganda it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.” — Keith Haring

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“Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.” — Austin O'Malley

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