"I sort of feel that climate change will be solved by science. I just feel instinctively that we will find a way of saving ourselves. But I am less confident that we won't destroy ourselves in other ways."
-Richard Eyre
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"A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.“
-Richard Eyre
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"I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour."
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"Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives."
-Richard Eyre
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-Richard Eyre
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"I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself."
-Richard Eyre
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"The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness."
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"Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it."
-Terry Wogan
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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."
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"Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them."
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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."
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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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