#imaginative

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

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I am often fond of saying the Trekkers are passionate about a hobby, their hobby is 'Star Trek.' They are by and large very imaginative, very intelligent people, and they certainly have been more than generous to me. ↗

— Kate Mulgrew

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I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education. ↗

— William Wiley

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Do you know a better time than the present for igniting your dreams? ↗

— Carolyn Tody

#inspirational-attitude #whimsical #attitude

Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#haunting #imaginative #inspirational #murder #personal-growth

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present. ↗

— Franz Boas

#emotionally #energetic #imaginative #intelligent #mankind

So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

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Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#conceptions #go #happier #lot #love

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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