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There is just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can not know it all, and that is where imagination can work.

The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.

You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.

A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur that the computer mouse is a hotrod that the box is a cave that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.

Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I have learned in my own life.

Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind's eye. That is an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

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.

I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.

On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.

How can a doctor judge a woman sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

Love Does not grow on trees like apples in Eden - it is something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.

I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.

I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.

I am looking for a way out of here. I can not have it physically, so I am going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it is just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he is breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it is my way of living vicariously.