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Imaginary friends are one of the weirder forms of pretend play in childhood. But the research shows that imaginary friends actually help children understand the other people around them and imagine all the many ways that people could be. -- Alison Gopnik
My imaginary friends have become my imaginary children. -- Chris Colfer
I had imaginary friends and even they were mean to me. -- Olivia Wilde
I still have imaginary friends who I talk to in my head. -- Lee Ryan
When you write a novel, you make other people see your imaginary friends. -- Tayari Jones
Been brainwashed since age 2 I only had imaginary friends And still do And they hate you -- Mac Lethal
Mandy would much rather have imaginary friends who were real than real friends who were imaginary. -- Rebecca McNutt
Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him. -- Paula Abdul
I was such a nerd in high school, I didn't even have imaginary friends, I had imaginary bullies. -- Brian Posehn
I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form. -- Claire Danes
I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me. -- K. A. Applegate
I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends. -- Ian Rankin
I've accepted the fact I have mental illness but when my imaginary friends start calling me crazy that's where I draw the line -- Stanley Victor Paskavich
Here's what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends. -- Brad Meltzer
Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial. -- Fernando Pessoa
Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it. -- Beth Ditto
That's what's so great about my job. I get paid to do what got me in trouble in grade school space out and play with my imaginary friends. In terms of Isaac, when the time's right. -- Jonathan Kellerman
Where had I been that I didn't know about imaginary friends? I could see the point of it. How a lost part of yourself steps out and remind you who you could be with a little work. -- Sue Monk Kidd
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On the spectrum of imagination, there are people who are more imaginative than others - I guess some kids are hardcore pretenders and have imaginary friends for years and other kids play and they have fun, but it's not quite as specific like that. -- Bryce Dallas Howard
I never wore a stich of make-up until I got to America. I lived in a world of fantasy it was made up of imaginary friends and make believe lovers. I was also teased a lot for being different because I was shy, solitary, distant and melancholic. -- Pamela Anderson
I think I was a shy kid. I grew up without television. I had a dog, and we lived up in the White Mountains in the summer, and I had no friends up there. And I would just go play hide-and-seek with my dog and probably had some imaginary friends. -- Dan Brown
Even the very youngest children already are perfectly able to discriminate between the imaginary and the real, whether in books or movies or in their own pretend play. Children with the most elaborate and beloved imaginary friends will gently remind overenthusiastic adults that these companions are, after all, just pretend. -- Alison Gopnik
I like cartoons. I like 'Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.' It's funny! It has things that kids wouldn't get. It's like, if you're mature, you get it. I like that and 'The Fairly OddParents.' -- David Archuleta
I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was 'your' boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get 'you.' -- Mohsin Hamid
Children need stimulation and stability. That can come from grandparents, cousins, teachers, nannies, childcare centres - as long as they engage with the children and are really fond of them. There are also times when children need to be left alone to learn to be independent and to encourage their imaginary friends. -- Tony Buzan
Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions. I crawled along my swing set, searching for escape routes from my maximum-security prison; I biked through the neighborhood, the wind in my hair and a fleet of evildoers on my heels. -- Robin Wasserman
Certainly I was a very religious child, a deeply weird and very emotional child, an only child with lots of imaginary friends and a very active imagination. I loved Sunday school and Bible camp and all that. I had my own white Bible with Jesus' words printed in red in the text; I even spoke at youth revivals. -- Lee Smith
I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on. -- Kate Bush
When I was a kid, I had two friends, and they were imaginary and they would only play with each other. -- Rita Rudner
I've learned the most from Randy Harrison. Because of his fantastic imaginary world filled with bizarre friends. He is constantly giving us good advice. -- Gale Harold
Biking through New York's boroughs in 2005, I thought about some old friends, Joe and Eileen Bailey. Though they are imaginary, I frequently talk to them. -- Charles Schumer

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