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"To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication. Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have. Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done."
"Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life."
"But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no substance unless one has actually seen him dead, a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff of smoke in the imagination."
"Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life."
"All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!"
"What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination."
"Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination."
"Our responsibility begins with our imagination."
"The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us, all of you, are endowed with the powers of fantasy."
"The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it."
"Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones."
"The writing is - I'm free of pain. It's the place where I live; it's where I have control; it's where nobody tells me what to do; it's where my imagination is fecund and I am really at my best. Nothing matters more in the world or in my body or anywhere when I'm writing."
"We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry."
"Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do."
"Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love."
"We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing."
"... people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on."
"The only thing that limits us is our imagination."
"Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence."
"The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality."
