#magi

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal! ↗

— Robert Creeley

#am #brutal #editorial #else #i

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

#combines #hand #higher #historical #ideal

Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche. ↗

— George Crumb

#arise #composers #deeper #discussions #i

Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper! ↗

— George William Curtis

#good #how #imagination #many #much

I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. You don't actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like. ↗

— John Cusack

#affair #chemistry #consummate #get #good

Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#i #lied #like #lying #magic

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have. ↗

— James Dean

#alone #being #concentration #imagination #thing

My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her. ↗

— Matt Damon

#her #i #imagine #mate #my soul

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman. ↗

— Claire Danes

#alone #because #being #being alone #devices

I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#access #always #around #being #captured