You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think... -Larry McMurtry

You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.

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I just can't afford to get bored, because if you've been blessed with a generous imagination, which a lot of actors have, to be engaged, to be stimula...
'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of reader...
I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions....
I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim....
It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to f...
I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get m...
I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite ...
I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but ...
There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work....
With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 y...