"I can't even say what my greatest fear is because I, I can't even imagine. Being without my family... I can't even say it because it makes me cry."
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"It was a tough experience with Alan Horn, who didn't like anything that was R-rated. So you can imagine he hated some of my films."
"I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind."
"My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that imagined reader, which is a crucial part of learning to tell stories."
"I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!"
"I can't imagine I could have become the person I am now without books. Books became synonymous with freedom. They showed that you could open doors and walk through."
"It has been said that man can create anything which he can imagine."
"The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one."
"Can you imagine what you could do, if you did all that you can?"
"As I wouldn't wear a costume, I couldn't imagine him wanting to wear one. And seeing that the greater part of my wardrobe is black (It's a sensible colour. It goes with anything. Well, anything black)[...]."
"You must never imagine, that just because something is funny, it is not also dangerous."
"Nothing is a thing: it's nothing. So I can imagine a place where there's not even nothing."
"So much of what we understand comes from knowing what something is and what that something used to be, which allows us to figure out, or at least imagine, what happened in between."
"I had made a decision, although I hardly knew it yet. It's often that way with decisions, they're made in some hidden part of us and the awareness secretes itself slowly into that conscious part of us that imagines it decides."
"Unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind."
"If Cassie was invalidated because she caught the disease, or because Fred suspected her of it, I can only imagine what he will do to me and to my family if he discovers that the cure did not work perfectly."
"How barbarous, to deny men the privilege of pursuing what they imagine to be their proper concerns and interests! Yet, in a sense, this is just what you are doing when you allow your indignation to rise at their wrongdoing; for after all, they are only following their own apparent concerns and interests. You say they are mistaken? Why then, tell them so, and explain it to them, instead of being indignant."
"I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation."
"You couldn’t begin to imagine who I am, where I’m going, or what I’m about to do, All of you are trapped here. You can’t go anywhere, forward or back. But I’m not like you. I have work to do. I have a mission to accomplish. And so, with your permission, I shall move ahead."
"I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt but I was wrong."