“This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.”
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“If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.”
“A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.”
“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.”
“What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.”
“I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.”
“One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.”
“We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.”
“I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.”
“I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.”
“Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.”
“The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.”
“Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.”
“An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.”
“You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.”
“If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.”
“People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.”
“Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.”
“Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.”
“Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.”
“Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.”
“Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.”
“Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.”
“Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.”