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But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.
Roger McGuinn on imagination

If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.
Bruce Greenwood on imagination

Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination.
Pola Negri on imagination

In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.
Phil Harris on imagination

I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.
Gillian Flynn on imagination

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
Carl Clinton Van Doren on imagination

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
Edmund Wilson on imagination

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
Edmund Wilson on imagination

My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!
Randy Castillo on imagination

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.
Edgar Rice Burroghs on imagination

I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?
Jean Claude Duvalier on imagination

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.
Ellen Terry on imagination

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.
Mary Richards on imagination

In imagination, there's no limitation.
Mark Victor Hansen on imagination

I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.
Michael Lindsay-Hogg on imagination

There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
Eddie Marsan on imagination

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.
Judith Krantz on imagination

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
Alexander Cockburn on imagination

I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.
Reeve Carney on imagination

I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.
Miguel Ferrer on imagination