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There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from. David Whyte

Lyrical Poetry Practicality Which Fierce Aspect Whole Imaginative

People are not as imaginative as they think they are. DeRay Mckesson

People Think Imaginative

I was nice and well-mannered because I was taught manners. I was very imaginative and quite adventurous. I was a tomboy, and I was always jealous that my older brother Hugh had bigger toy aeroplanes than me. I was always playing with boys' toys; I don't remember owning any dolls. Diana Rigg

Jealous Me Remember Manners Nice Older Brother Had Adventurous Toy Toys Because Boy Always Aeroplanes Dolls Very Than Hugh Any Quite Owning Taught Bigger Older Brother Tomboy Playing Imaginative

For me, the scale of the budget is part of the creative process. 'Swingers' is the movie it is because we made it for exactly the right budget. Had it been made for a higher number, it would not have been as imaginative as we had to make it, given the budget constraints we had. Doug Liman

I love incredibly imaginative, speculative sci-fi. Duncan Jones

Love Incredibly Sci-Fi Imaginative Speculative

I generally find fiction without some move to the weird, less imaginative, dull, prosaic. Not all of it, of course, but a lot of it. I suppose it's just a question of taste. Ellen Datlow

Find Some Generally Weird Suppose Course Without Dull Question Lot Taste Move Just Fiction Less Imaginative

I think that the typical Emilia Wickstead women is very effortless, very sophisticated: she's got alluring style, and she's always taking on fashion. I always describe her as 'imaginative with her own taste'. Emilia Wickstead

Fashion Women Style Own Think Typical Alluring Taking Sophisticated She Always Got Very Effortless Taste Describe Her Imaginative

We're a very imaginative species; we're very good at creating fictions. Emma Mackey

Good Very Fictions Creating Species Imaginative

I'd like to think I'm optimistic and imaginative. Ethan Slater

Think Like Optimistic Imaginative

I'm trained in the theater, and acting, for me, is about the imaginative life I create for myself, not about basing it on something real. I think that whatever I create becomes the reality for the audience. Frances McDormand

Life Myself Me Reality Whatever Think About Something Audience Becomes Real Trained Theater Create Acting Imaginative

I don't want to compare myself to somebody like Fitzgerald or Hemingway, but I feel like, for some writers, going to a certain city, a certain place, is what kickstarts your imaginative process. G. Willow Wilson

Myself Somebody City Some Writers Feel Like Fitzgerald Going Want Process Place Certain Your Compare Hemingway Imaginative

I come from theater, and doing period stuff is so whimsical and imaginative and so outside any frame of reference than I have ever had so I prefer that just in terms of fun factor. Ginnifer Goodwin

Frame Factor Outside Had Stuff Come Terms Period Doing Reference Than Any Just Theater Whimsical Prefer Fun Ever Imaginative

The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility. Guy Davenport

Mind Reading Another Real Precisely Suspend Sensibility Use Workings Imaginative

The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from palling reality - hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical 'heroes.' H. P. Lovecraft

Of course, it's wonderful to film any period piece - but especially 'Foyle's War' because the art direction is so imaginative and yet at the same time so real. You can open a drawer on set, and even though the camera never sees what's inside, it'll be filled with genuine 1940s documents. Honeysuckle Weeks

War Art Time You Wonderful Drawer Though Inside Direction Sees Never Open Piece Period Documents Course Because Genuine Real Camera Same Any Same Time Even Filled Film Imaginative Set

I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actors need to act all the time to make up for some deficiency in their sense of themselves. J. G. Ballard

Time Reality Take For Granted Sense Imagination Deficiency Some Writer Take Part Make Make Up Exercise Up Just Process Themselves Act Granted Actor Basic Coping Imaginative Need

I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably for 400 or 500 years, well predating modern science. J. G. Ballard

Great Science Think Through River Part Well Science Fiction Years Modern Being Fiction Modern Science Literature English English Literature Imaginative

Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through. James Wolcott

Machine Broadway Musicals Would Someone More Through Wishing Years Off Blow May Turn Turn-Off Popcorn Recent Imaginative Recent Years

I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for children's books; there are really amazing writers. It is a fantastic creative outlet and such an amazing teaching tool. The thing I love about kids, too, is it is so imaginative and poetic. Jewel

Love Creative Amazing Too Tool Books Kids Out High Would About High Standard Outlet More Poetic Write Writers Children Fantastic Really Standard Teaching Creative Outlet Thing Imaginative

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse. John Drinkwater

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. John Hurt

Circumstances Prosper Leap Different Really Acting Imaginations Imaginative

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