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Growing up, my mom made us this amazing thing called The Mack Theatrical Wardrobe. It was a massive trunk filled with everything that you'd want as a kid if you were into imagination and play. -- Allison Mack
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I'd love to play more challenging roles, characters that would stretch my comfort zone and imagination. -- Isabelle Fuhrman
Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood. -- Jack Prelutsky
Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else. -- Vivien Leigh
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction. -- Yann Martel
Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa. -- Steve Carell
Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing. -- Christian Bale
I want to be on the screen, I want to play dress up every day, I want be different people, I want to have fun, and I want to use my imagination. -- Skyler Samuels
Doing 'White Collar,' quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then someone else when Peter Burke goes undercover. -- Tim DeKay
When you're running around and playing, it's amazing ground for imagination, and that's really the biggest muscle you need for anything in the arts. I think it's probably the biggest training I've had. -- Josh Cooke
Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality, they often play a key role in making markets run smoothly. -- James Surowiecki
But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there. -- Roger McGuinn
The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games. -- Adam Gopnik
English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words. -- Yael Naim
In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore - in short, to play. -- Darell Hammond
Games are the way we keep romance alive. They're based in human hardwiring. Playing hard-to-get or leaving a little to the imagination allows the woman to be wooed and appreciated and the man to be challenged and intrigued. -- Helen Fisher
I spend a lot of time practicing active imagination before I go to sleep. What I'm feeling will manifest as images through active imagination. And then I go to sleep, and those play out even more in my dreams. -- Jeff Mangum
I'm essentially the result of other people's imagination. And that's fine. Because of other people's imagination, I've played parts I would never have thought I could do. Still, I've never had a hankering or an ambition for any particular role. -- John Hurt
I think it's fun to play with worlds that you can add a lot of your own imagination to. With 'True Blood,' you're not limited by anything, there are just leaps and bounds of the imagination you can take with these characters. -- Deborah Ann Woll
Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away... -- Alexander Pope
Where beams of imagination play,The memory's soft figures melt away. -- Alexander Pope
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. -- Carl Jung
The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket. -- Richard P. Feynman
Virtual worlds are places of imagination that encompass practices of play, performance, creativity and ritual. -- Tom Boellstorff
I've always been introverted and so from a very young age I would play different scenarios in my head and let my imagination run free. -- Matthew Carter
Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies. -- Ken Robinson
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. -- Carl Jung
I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it. -- Gustave Moreau
Most people who play golf have one big trouble: they think too much. To get any real mileage out of this game you've got to sit on your imagination. -- Sam Snead
If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're condemned to hum the same old tune. -- Robert McKee

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