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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.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

People can die of mere imagination.

I guess I am a very keen observer, and I do like to think I have a good imagination.

Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it is 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 am a light sleeper. I have 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 do not know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.

It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.

I have got quite a vivid imagination and I am easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I do not think I have ever seen a ghost - I think I am 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.

Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it is some kind of quality is not it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.

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 enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it is great to be a part of and watch.

I am 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?

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

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 have had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.