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Quote by Richard Powers
The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that were disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning. – Richard Powers

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This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world. – Richard Powers

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I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects. – Richard Powers

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Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery. – Richard Powers

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Ive studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. Its mainly about daydreaming. And the techniques really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene. – Sam Rockwell

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Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole. – Arthur Keith

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A place makes a deep impression on you when youre young. It lives with you. Its like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination. – Richard Eyre

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Avatar is the greatest, most comprehensive collection of movie cliches ever assembled, but its put together in a brand new way with a new technology, and tremendous imagination, making it a true epic and a kind of a milestone. – Joe Dante

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