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The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as an act of self-expression. We read because language renders unto us the vitality of real and imagined experience. -- Marita Golden
Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience. In either case, it reacts automatically to information which you give to it from your forebrain. Your nervous system reacts appropriately to what you THINK or IMAGINE to be 'true. -- Maxwell Maltz
My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine. -- Jane Pauley
My faith experience, well, as you can imagine, you need a lot of faith to raise five boys. -- Ann Romney
Like having a child, running a startup is the sort of experience that's hard to imagine unless you've done it yourself. -- Paul Graham
As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience. -- Rachel Weisz
I never imagined my life would be the way that it has been for the past 30 years. I have had the best experiences a person can have-and the worst as well. -- Columba Bush
I can't imagine writing something that didn't address Jewish themes and questions. It's such a big part of my life, a lot of the way in which I experience the world. -- Molly Antopol
Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism. -- Newt Gingrich
Winning 'The Apprentice' changed my life in ways I could never have imagined. It has been an amazing experience working for Donald Trump and I am very grateful for the whole opportunity. -- Bill Rancic
I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience. -- Lasse Hallstrom
The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences. -- Jacob Epstein
What I do find surprising is that other people do not think in the same way. I find it hard to imagine a world where numbers and words are not how I experience them! -- Daniel Tammet
Gravity is not controlled physically in us by one of the 5 ordinary senses. We always reduce a gravity experience to an autocognizance, real or imagined, registered inside us in the region of the stomach. -- Marcel Duchamp
I can't imagine a more profoundly exciting experience than I had working on 'Avatar.' And whether I'm ever part of it again, I'll always be very proud that I was a part of it. -- Stephen Lang
When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I still prefer holding an old-fashioned book in my hands. There's a special, tactile experience. -- Rick Riordan
When I read books, I actually really love imagining whomever I want to in the character's role. I get such vivid pictures on my own that that is a big part of the experience for me. -- Kristin Gore
I grew up not having very many girl friends. Girls tend to be competitive. I actually went to the school 'Mean Girls' was written about, so you can only imagine what my high school experience was like! -- Gillian Zinser
But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and quality you can imagine, and that was a good experience. -- Shelby Foote
Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for. -- Lisa Kleypas
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts. -- Philip Roth
I do not think direct experience is always necessary to act, but I believe that sometimes you have to have had the real experience to act certain roles. One of those was losing your family member. I was not being able to imagine how sad that could be. -- Go Ah-sung
Every disability is imagined. Every achievement is an experience. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi

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