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Imagination Quotes

Whether as living humans or as mythological figures, ancestors have always played an important role in the African popular and literary imagination. Sometimes, as in Amos Tutuola's famous short novels, they directly influence events. More often, as in the works of Chinua Achebe, both living and dead ancestors are sages offering valuable advice.

Uzodinma Iweala

Imagination Influence Advice Short

Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Imagination Man Blind Reality Like

When you are a people's movement, you have one thing. Your only asset is people. And you have to deal with real people. Not the people of your imagination. Not the people you wish people would be. But people as they exist actually out there in the real world.

Norman Finkelstein

Imagination People World Wish You

What we acknowledged as a nation during the one-and-a-half year trial of George Zimmerman is that the white majority's public imagination of black people was based on their fear of us, not the reality of who we are.

Patrisse Cullors

Fear Imagination People Reality Year

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

Men Imagination Ideas Plant Die

In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was before TV - and Superman movies. We even visualized Superman billboards. And it's all come true.

Imagination Drawing Movies Run True

As a boy, the very words 'Liberty Bell' and 'Independence Hall' fired my imagination and made a profound and lasting impression on my mind. Throughout my struggle to secure national freedom for China, I have continuously dreamed of the day when she would assume the full stature of an independent, democratic nation.

Chiang Kai-shek

Freedom Day Struggle Imagination Boy

I probably became an actor because of my vivid imagination, and doing voice-over really sort of takes me back to that.

Eric Stonestreet

Imagination Me Doing Back Actor

I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.

Learning Walk Imagination Think More

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

Robert Falcon Scott

Patience Imagination Waiting Trying

I've always had an active imagination.

Rickie Lee Jones

Imagination Active Always Had

It's wrong to become a bully yourself or to take it out on other people, and in my case, I just retreated to a place where I was safe. And that place was my imagination, books, and television.

Imagination Yourself People Place

There's no environment. Use your imagination. There's no fourth wall, whether it's the first time you've told this story about her life, or the sixth time.

Life Time Imagination Story You Her

It's what you don't see that keeps you on the edge of your seat in any kind of film - leave it to the imagination of the viewer.

Christopher Lee

Imagination You Edge Kind See Leave

I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.

Imagination I Can Try Much Decorate

I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

Music Art Imagination Safety World

I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.

Love Imagination World Say Always

When you are young your imagination is so clear.

Imagination You Young Clear Your

When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling stew pot of all of this stuff, and you pour it out. And that's where you start from.

Imagination Start Reach You Look

Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.

Childhood Imagination Adolescence Big

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.

Good Beautiful Respect Imagination

I hope that I'm sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now. I think a lot of girls in the public eye, especially musical artists, are just kind of objectified a little bit and wearing super-skimpy outfits and leaving nothing to the imagination.

Hope Imagination Eye Think Sexy Way

I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.

Imagination Reach Heights Want

The Khmer Rouge can't destroy me. I still have my imagination and am capable of making films. I am not locked up.

Imagination I Am Me Capable Up

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