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Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.
Derek Jacobi on imagination

When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour,' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.
Olivia Thirlby on imagination

I believe that imagination inspires nations. It's something that I live by.
Janelle Monae on imagination

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.
Doris Day on imagination

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 on imagination

I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.
Trevor Nunn on imagination

I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do.
Teena Marie on imagination

Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.
Paul Davies on imagination

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Gaston Bachelard on imagination

It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.
Kevin J. Anderson on imagination

We especially need imagination in science.
Maria Mitchell on imagination

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
Yann Martel on imagination

Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.
Evelyn Underhill on imagination

I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.
Rufus Sewell on imagination

Imagination comes of not having things.
LeRoy Neiman on imagination

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.
Robin Wright Penn on imagination

Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.
Daniel H. Wilson on imagination

Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
Terry Brooks on imagination

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
Terry Brooks on imagination

I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.
Terry Brooks on imagination