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Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.
The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself.
I really could've been a good student, but I was always hearing an imaginary audience.
It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.
Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head.
Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.
Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances.
In Washington, you have imaginary problems, and they can't even solve the imaginary problems.
Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.
It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time.
I don't think I've ever prayed in my entire life, never sat and had an imaginary chat with God.
In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.
As an actor, I believe that acting is actually behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.
I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.
Wormholes are a gravitational phenomena. Or imaginary gravitational phenomena, as the case may be.
When you go to the theater, you are slipping out of your life into someone else's imaginary world.
How I was brought up and my imaginary friend means more to me than anything you can ever say or do.
No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.
So many people are focused on reaching the top of an imaginary ladder that they don't enjoy the climb.
To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.
I like crossing the imaginary boundaries people set up between different fields - it's very refreshing.
But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries.
You're brave. You are the bravest person I know, and you are my friend. I don't care if you are imaginary.
If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.
What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
When I was a kid I'd swing imaginary light sabers around, and now I've had the opportunity to get paid for it.
I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
When you make a record, you get to live in an imaginary world where you have the best kind of band on every song.
A lot of people fear failures, struggling, they want overnight success and they live in their fake imaginary world.
And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.
The good thing about writing a novel is that you're creating an imaginary world and can take a break when you need to.
The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.
We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure.
I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.
It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.
I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form.
I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.
Every time I finish a book, I say to an imaginary god that I do not believe in, 'Please let me live to write another one.'
I put myself into another world and another identity, and I design not for how my life is but for how my imaginary life is.
Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing.
Escapism or nostalgia, for me, is not about having a terrible life and trying to get away via imaginary ideas or something.
I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.