"I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences."
-Brit Marling
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"I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.“
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"Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic."
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"I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive."
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"A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan."
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"I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel."
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"As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there's also something about it that every time you really feel like you're doing it for the first time you have no idea whether you're capable of it."
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"Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it."
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"Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality."
-Irving Howe
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"Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them."
-Laurette Taylor
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"With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour."
-Theodore Gericault
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"Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination."
-Lionel Stander
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"One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?"
-Francis Cabot Lowell
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