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Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.

There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.

You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.

In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others.

It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.

Imagination creates some big monsters.

Love is based on imagination.

Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.

Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

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

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.

George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.

In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.