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"There is no idleness, by which we are so easily seduced, as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps him in perpetual agitation, and hurries him rapidly from place to place."
"I do not myself find it agreeable to be 90, and I cannot imagine why it should seem so to other people. It is not that you have any fears about your own death, it is that your upholstery is already dead around you."
"Everything I know I imagine everyone else knows as well. And then everything that everyone else knows I imagine they know on top of what I know, so I'm constantly anxious about what everyone else knows."
"I like to imagine that all the choices you make during the day that you're doing a particular scene are going to feed into the creation of that scene. It's not a movie-by-movie or a part-by-part basis. It's a day-by-day thing, and sometimes an hour-by-hour thing."
"When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders."
"I couldnt imagine my life being any more successful than it is now."
"Imagine the talented love-child of Andr Previn and Lucille Ball."
"The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine."
"I really can't imagine not singing again."
"All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time."
"An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it neither higher nor lower."
"I define myself by everything that I love, everything I can create, everything that I can imagine."
"The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong."
"I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group."
"The status quo is more tenacious than anyone would ever imagine. The human mind prefers continuity rather than change. So it really has to be committed to eliminating a bad habit to even start down that path."
"Imagine Pulitzer prizefighting."
"The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing."
"Imagine the wisdom to be passed down from the classical Buddhist texts."
"Imagine if you have a million views on a show and they say it's a hit on some cable networks. I could put out a piece of content that has 20 million views."
"we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were."
