Imagination : (58) " I had a wall around me and a lot of fantasy locked inside. " - Peggy Lipton " Writers to some extent are childish, and it’s at the childish level that one really engages with any experience. What really moves you is at the very personal, childish level of the imagination. My business is the imagination, and my imagination is engaged by Asia. " - Christopher Koch " I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination. " - Nick Cave " You’d have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don’t make movies; we do. " - Dougray Scott " We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It’s much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren’t present here and now. " - Ken Robinson " I’ve made up stuff that’s turned out to be real, that’s the spooky part. " - Tom Clancy " I don’t like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it’s your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination. " - Mark Ruffalo " The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you’re given – that’s definitely something I can sort of relate to. " - Alden Ehrenreich " I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they’d be, what position they’d play and so on. " - Lou Holtz " I’ve got a good imagination, so I can see someone arguing over a parking ticket and imagine they’re getting a divorce or something. " - Lisa Stansfield