“If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.”
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“The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.”
“Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.”
“The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.”
“It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.”
“Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.”
“I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.”
“To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.”
“People can die of mere imagination.”
“I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.”
“Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.”
“For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.”
“I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.”
“I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.”
“It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.”
“I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.”
“Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.”
“I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.”
“My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?”
“Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.”
“I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.”
“Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.”
“A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.”
“There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.”