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The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they are all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

You experience the films through the actors, so they are all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.

My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it is not imagination. It is just a way of watching.

Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind.

My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that is how I identify.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.

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.

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.

Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it is always been there. It is been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had.

I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.

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 are casting, they are dressing the scene, they are working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they are also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

I do not think it is possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.