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If you value the democratic process, you have to value the protection of political speech. ”
Aishwarya has been a huge inspiration and I aspire to be like her. ”
Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others. ”
Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses. ”
I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression. ”
I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from. ”
Imagination allows you to bend the rules of the temporal world. ”
I've gotten a lot more comfortable with the audition process, but there's something that really turned me off initially when I was younger, to auditioning. The idea that I couldn't get to the person that was actually making the film really frustrated me. ”
You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff. ”
I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and then you'd use your imagination. ”