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Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway
Cowardice
Imagination
Ability
Simply
Almost
Always
Suspend
Lack
You have to be able to invest in your own creations, to suspend your own disbelief in order to be able to write them. We all have to draw the line somewhere.
Alastair Reynolds
You
Somewhere
Own
Draw
Able
Invest
Write
Disbelief
Line
Suspend
Order
Them
Creations
Your
Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning.
Brad Feld
Today
You
Will
Wind
Beginning
Think
Eating
About
Struggling
Arguing
Stuff
Disbelief
Still
Years
Clock
End
Same
Suspend
Same Stuff
Us
Moment
Forward
Brief
Brief Moment
Species
Things
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
Edward Gibbon
Work
Memory
Try
Long
Practice
Single
Action
Pen
Paragraph
Given
Cast
Had
Polish
Always
Till
Been
Mould
Suspend
Deposit
Ear
Last
The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.
Fred Saberhagen
Good
Tools
Willingness
Plus
Writer
Cheerful
Make
Same
Any
Suspend
Belief
But I also wanted to give them an intelligent emotional journey, without having to suspend reality - to be able to look at those characters and see reasons for the relationships and why what happens happens.
Graeme Murphy
Journey
Reality
Relationships
Those
Characters
See
Able
Give
Having
Emotional
Look
Also
Without
Intelligent
Suspend
Wanted
Happens
Them
Reasons
Why
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
It's ironic - people used to want to suspend me and talk about how bad my behaviour was, but now they like it when I shout and scream.
John McEnroe
Me
People
Bad
About
Like
Talk
How
Ironic
Behaviour
Suspend
Scream
Want
Shout
Used
Now
Palin, Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others have made an art form of convincing far too many Americans to suspend their disbelief, and they have severely damaged the ability of our country to have serious discussions about serious challenges.
John Yarmuth
Art
Challenges
Made
Country
Too
Others
Our
Ability
About
Glenn
Disbelief
Beck
Art Form
Discussions
American
Suspend
Form
Far
Convincing
Many
Serious
Palin
Damaged
I am very supportive of Donald Trump's call to temporarily suspend immigration from countries where terrorists influence and impact represents a threat to the United States.
Mike Pence
Immigration
States
Threat
Impact
Temporarily
Countries
Supportive
Call
Am
Terrorists
Trump
Very
Donald
Suspend
Represents
Influence
Where
United
United States
The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.
Mo Ibrahim
Business
People
Problem
School
Sense
Harvard
Drowned
Because
Times
Times People
Get
Models
Suspend
Common
Common Sense
Teachings
Business School
Many
Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
Naomi Klein
War
History
Rights
Nation
National
Crises
Crisis
Promise
Civil
Promptly
Constitutional
Betrayed
Civil War
Attack
Throughout
Freed
Been
Suspend
After
Acres
Used
Mule
Basic
Basic Rights
Slaves
In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.
Pete Townshend
Faith
Religion
Degree
Other
Follow
Disbelief
Any
Suspend
Order
Organized
Organized Religion
The broad goal, laid out by Congress, the Obama administration, and the U.N. Security Council, was that Iran would suspend all enrichment-related activities and not be permitted a path to ever pursue a nuclear weapons program.
Rob Portman
Path
Congress
Broad
Out
Security
Obama
Security Council
Administration
Obama Administration
Would
Weapons
Pursue
Council
Permitted
Goal
Iran
Suspend
Laid
Activities
Ever
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Program
I'm a great audience. I cry very easily. I suspend disbelief in two seconds.
Stephen Sondheim
Great
Seconds
Easily
Disbelief
Cry
Audience
Very
Suspend
Two
People go into that arena, and they know the fix is in. They know what pro wrestling or sports entertainment is. That being said, they want it executed to the highest level so that they can suspend their disbelief and buy in, and so, in a world of make believe, you make people believe in you. It's as real as it can be.
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Buy
You
Entertainment
Sports
People
World
Believe
Wrestling
Arena
Highest
Highest Level
Know
Disbelief
Executed
Make
Make-Believe
Said
Real
Go
Fix
Pro
Suspend
Being
Want
Level
It's my job to motivate the audience to believe. I have to get them to suspend their judgment in favor of involvement.
Sydney Pollack
Job
Judgment
Believe
Favor
Involvement
Audience
Motivate
Get
Suspend
Them
When a terrorist attack comes, you will not necessarily know who did it. What you can know is that certain kinds of leaders will use that to suspend your rights.
Timothy D. Snyder
You
Rights
Will
Kinds
Attack
Leaders
Know
Terrorist
Terrorist Attack
Did
Suspend
Certain
Use
Your
Who
Necessarily
Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it.
Tom Hanks
You
Learning
Natural
Physics
Feelings
Become
Own
Marks
Characterization
Out
About
Something
Self
Part
Self-Consciousness
Maintain
Lights
Make
Learn
How
Suspend
Movie
Afternoon
Etc
Your
Hard
Figure
Now
Actor
Consciousness
When you have a movie about people landing from planet Neptune, you suspend disbelief. I totally get it. But I like doing things that happen in real life.
Will Gluck
Life
You
People
Real Life
Neptune
Totally
About
Like
Disbelief
Real
Doing
Get
Suspend
Movie
Happen
Landing
Planet
Things
I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.
Yann Martel
Animals
About
Like
Ideas
Disbelief
Reader
Because
Suspend
Rhinoceros
Certain
Help
Many
Using
We can suspend disbelief about Harry Potter, and we do the same thing with God, and we do the same thing with human rights, and we do the same thing with money.
Yuval Noah Harari
God
Rights
Money
Same Thing
Human Rights
Harry
Harry Potter
About
Potter
Disbelief
Same
Suspend
Human
Thing
Manmohan Desai's films pack a lot of joy and have a child-like quality and you can see the director is having fun, but my movies don't suspend disbelief that much. But it's good to be compared to Manmohan Desai. He was run down by critics in his time.
Farah Khan
Time
Good
You
Director
Quality
Joy
Down
Films
Run
Critics
See
Having
Having Fun
He
Disbelief
His
Lot
Child-Like
Suspend
Pack
Movies
Much
Fun
Compared
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