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I tried the second season of 'American Horror Story,' and it scared me horribly. I guess I prefer my own imagination to a realized visual.
Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something beautiful.
Working with the body and the imagination - non-verbal ways especially - tap into our deepest wounds and our highest potentials as humans.
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.
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.
Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.
I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.
It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.
Woe to the man who tries to stretch the imagination of man He shall be mocked he shall be scourged by the blinkered guardians of morality.
The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.
Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.
Business leaders love the humanities because they know that to innovate you need more than rote knowledge. You need a trained imagination.
What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
But You know Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her that I look for fame - and all that the warmth of the imagination renders dear to Man.
The popular Arab imagination is a pliant and inventive thing; it can explain any defeat. It is a compass that always points toward the Jew.
Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon.
I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination.
If there's something more awaiting me in the future, I'd rather leave it up to God since what He creates is far better than my imagination.
In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.
You have to beat your own problematic imagination to discover what it is you're saying and how to say it and move forward into the unknown.
Imagination is only intelligence having fun. A healthy mind knows how to switch between worlds, and which one you need to eat and sleep in.
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
Dreams, I thought. They're the riches of a poor person, stashed in treasure chests buried deeply in the imagination. But are dreams enough?
I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.
And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.
I guess I'm not really involving my imagination to that of a circumstance or happening - I'm just kind of acknowledging it as an existence.
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
They [formulae 1.10 - 1.12 of Ramanujan] must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have had the imagination to invent them.
I don't know what the next American revolution is going to be like, but we might be able to imagine it if your imagination were rich enough.
When I have something to work against, it liberates my imagination. I believe very much in authentic inspiration. I'm not about calculation.
Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience.
We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.
Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.
I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.
It is more important to let a child's imagination develop than it is to labor to inculcate in him or her some correct ethical point of view.
I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible.
Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents.
The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.
The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest.
The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.
It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be; without it, ‘progress’ would become mechanical and trivial.
When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.
Imagine everything you're experiencing now being a hundred times more wonderful. Bad turns good; good turns great. THAT IS WHAT IS POSSIBLE.
Take imagination breaks... Relaxed attention is one of the most important states of mind for creativity, and sometimes it has to be learned.
The great secret is a controlled imagination and a well-sustained attention, firmly and repeatedly focused on the object to be accomplished.
Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.