“When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.”
— Andrea Mitchell
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“Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.”
— Frederick Henry Hedge
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“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”
— James Russell Lowell
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“He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.”
— Washington Irving
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“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.”
— Lawrence Durrell
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“I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.”
— Michel Gondry
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“In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.”
— Wallace Stevens
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“I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.”
— Derek Jacobi
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“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?”
— Leonardo da Vinci
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“My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.”
— Michael Tippett
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“The public has an appetite for anything about imagination – anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.”
— Steven Spielberg
Author: Steven Spielberg
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