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Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don't want you to be stuck with your own life. It's too little.

— Stella Adler

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The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.

It takes three things to make it in this business: the tenacity of a bulldog, the hide of a rhinoceros and a good home to come home to.

Get a stage tone, darling, an energy. Never go on stage without your motor running.

Your talent is in your imagination. The rest is lice.

The teacher has to inspire, to agitate. You cannot teach acting. You can only stimulate what's already there.

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Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.

L. Frank Baum Introduction to The Lost Princess of Oz (1917)

There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

Alan Moore

An active imagination may find a bad tendency arising out of every transaction between imperfect morals.

Edward Hall Alderson Brownlow v. Egerton (1854)

Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)

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