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Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

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W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Imagination

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'
  • 2. One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
  • 3. I wanted to be a teacher. I love children so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven when I opened my mouth and said 'Oh God what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I look up to Mick Jagger because he's an amazing performer and he's such an individual. I respect him and admire him eternally.
  • 2. It was an amazing mistake to lose 10p on every copy because your sleeve is so expensive.
  • 3. Children are amazing and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale and of course I teach at Columbia NYU and that's nice and I love students but the most fun of all are the real little ones the young ones.

3 Anger

  • 1. Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards for they are subtle and quick to anger.
  • 2. The anger of a person who is strong can always bide its time.
  • 3. There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. I've been sober for two-and-a-half years My children are happy. In August my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.
  • 2. But to sustain a marriage for 50 years you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.'
  • 3. And currently there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics Australian Federation my 50th Birthday and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
  • 2. Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
  • 3. In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.
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