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We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can. Cullen Hightower

Imagine, Congress, Complex, More, May

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

Famous, Short, Influence, Advice, Living

When we talk about novels, we don't often talk about imagination. Why not? Does it seem too first grade? In reviews, you read about limpid prose, about the faithful reproduction of consciousness, about moral heft, but rarely about the power of pure, unadulterated imagination. Robin Sloan

Power, Moral, You, Talk, Why, Pure

I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on. Kate Bush

Life, People, World, Friends, Need, Toys

I'm focused on the work. And now I've done 'Morris' and 'Mr. Robot,' my appetite is whet to go deeper. It's fun, and it's challenging, and it stretches me. I'm not saying I'm done with comedy by any stretch of the imagination. I'm saying, yeah, let's see how deep the rabbit hole goes. Craig Robinson

Work, Deep, Fun, Saying, Me, Comedy

I have a very strong imagination and have since I was a little kid. That is where a lot of my world comes from. It's like I'm off somewhere else. And I can have a problem in life because of that, because I'm always off in some other world thinking about something else. It's constant. James Gunn

Life, Strong, Thinking, World, Problem

Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole. Arthur Keith

War, People, Process, Ethical, Force

Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination. Patrick Kavanagh

Women, Alcohol, Wine, Song, Enemy, Worst

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. - Alfred Whitney Griswold

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. Alfred Whitney Griswold

Ideas, Better, Bad, Against, Only, Sure

Human imagination is so much more potent than anything we could put down in words. Matt Bomer

Words, Down, Human, Anything, More, Much

We didn't get to see a lot of movies in my house growing up, so the first time I got to go to the movies - I think it was 'E.T.' - I was like, 'Oh my God, somebody else gets my imagination!' Matt Bomer

Time, God, Growing Up, Think, Movies

The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imagination. John Cassavetes

Love, World, Place, Mysterious, Come

I was a big reader of Zane Grey as a young boy, and so horses and the West figured large in my imagination. David Bergen

Grey, Young, Boy, Big, West, Large

I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me. Kazuo Ishiguro

World, Me, Alive, Away, Around, Came

I have always wanted to do a feature film that brings the world of Lisa Frank to life. We have so much backstory on our characters, and they have been alive in my imagination since the beginning. Lisa Frank

Life, Beginning, World, Alive, Always

Love and the imagination are connected. Ali Smith

Love, Connected

Art is one of the prime ways we have of opening ourselves and going beyond ourselves. That's what art is: it's the product of the human being in the world and imagination, all coming together. Ali Smith

Art, Together, World, Opening, Human

Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination. Danny Boyle

Experience, You, Hatred, Kind, Fantasy

You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination. Danny Boyle

Experience, You, Hatred, Kind, Fantasy

I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have. Michel Gondry

Time, Think, Know, Sometimes, See, I See

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus. David Baldacci

New Things, World, Curious, Find, New

Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world. Ashley Judd

World, Understanding, You, Important

But in a 24-hour day, the 25th hour is also the impossible hour, an hour that doesn't exist, that can only be created by the imagination. David Benioff

Day, Impossible, Only, Exist, Hour, Also

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination. Isaac D'Israeli

Men, Think, Genius, Feel, Two, Reasoning

Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities. Alison Gopnik

Love, Nature, Knowledge, Children, Truth

With any kind of sci-fi, the imagination continues, and the world exists, and you create that in your own mind, and it lives in you. Scott Bakula

Mind, World, You, Kind, Create, Own

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