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What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that

What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, Oh, what this really is is so-and-so, reducing it to a simple formula. – Doris Lessing

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really havent changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you dont change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. – Doris Lessing

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I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that nothing succeeds like success. – Doris Lessing

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Ill confess right here that I secretly wish Id have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination. – Berkeley Breathed

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In imagination, theres no limitation. – Mark Victor Hansen

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Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination. – Bob Kane

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My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical. – Michael Tippett

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We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. Its a death trap. – Anthony Hopkins

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I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the attention. Man is but the place where I stand, and the prospect hence is infinite. – Henry David Thoreau, journal, 1852 April 2nd

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring. – Chinese Proverb

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I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I havent been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned. – Tim Roth

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