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My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.

Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

I do not necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that is most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

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.

Imagination creates some big monsters.

It is not only imagination, it is the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.

Ultimately it is a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.

When we were filming The Darkest Hour, we did not even know what the aliens were going to look like, we did not even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you are just generating them from your own imagination.

I believe that imagination inspires nations. It is something that I live by.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.

I always believe it is better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.

I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I will never lose my imagination and my passion. That is really what it is. I am still passionate about what I do.

Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.