"Beyond the realms of what we see, into the regions or the unexplored limited only by our imaginations."
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"Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The conventional big-bosomed blonde is not mysterious. And what could be more obvious than the old black velvet and pearls type? The perfect ‘woman of mystery’ is one who is blonde, subtle and Nordic. ... Although I do not profess to be an authority on women, I fear that the perfect title [for a movie], like the perfect woman is difficult to find."
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"Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression."
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"We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination."
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"The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos."
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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."
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"The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real."
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"We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark."
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"Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the right sense, imagination is a response to what is going on — a sensitiveness to which outside things appeal. It is a composition of sympathy and observation."
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"I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in."
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"The greatest experience I've ever had in a movie theater was watching "Star Wars." It shaped how I look at the world. My imagination was so small before I went in that theater and there was an explosion in my head. I just couldn't figure out how someone came up with it."
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"He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death."
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"When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar."
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"Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun."
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"We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments."
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"Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous."
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"If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us to connect and reconnect the contents of the collective mind in ever more implausible, beautiful, and self-fulfilling ways."
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"No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting with expectation, and hushed with attention, easily terrifies himself with the dread of disappointing them, and strains his imagination in pursuit of something that may vindicate the veracity of fame, and show that his reputation was not gained by chance."
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"Imagination, not intelligence, made us human."
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"Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much."
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