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Capturing a moment, with Lynn Barber
“I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of 'living a lie'. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.” Lynn Barber, An Education.
Lynn Barber, by her own admission, has always suffered from a compelling sense of nosiness. An exceptionally inquisitive child she constantly questioned everyone she knew about imitate details of their lives. This talent for nosiness, coupled with her unusual lack of the very English fear of social embarrassment, turned out to be the perfect qualification for a celebrity interviewer.
Sir Ken Robinson, educationalist
A morning chatting to Sir Ken Robinson about the importance of lifelong curiosity, and how our destinies are guided by imagination – the wellspring of creativity.
Full interview at imaginomics.org.uk
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“Our lives are a constant process of improvisation – what you find inside yourself and what you create around yourself”
“Everyone’s life is full of these dog-leg curves, and there’s a good reason for it, which is that we create our own lives. The best evidence for imagination and creativity is your own biography”
“Our lives are a constant process of improvisation – what you find inside yourself and what you create around yourself”
“Imagination is what sets us apart”
“We’ve been bought up to think there is a fundamental divide between intellect and emotion, but there really isn’t”
“Imagination is the stuff of human intelligence, and creativity is the executive wing of imagination, it’s putting imagination to work”
“Some people watch apples fall from trees and don’t care, but Newton couldn’t get over it! ”
“Life is its own meaning, and we can construct our own purpose within it”
“This is a package deal – body, soul, mind, spirit, it’s all one. We are not software”
“Inspiration is a cocktail of curiosity. A big part of becoming more creative as you grow up is remaining curious”
“For me, life is simply about being here – we have all these sensibilities and capacities and it’s enough to ask what we can do with our common humanity to make life more congenial and fulfilling”
Gaylene Gould, Cultural Explorer
I spent morning talking to Gaylene Gould, Cultural Explorer and Head of BFI Cinemas and Events about storytelling, about using imagination to explore vulnerability and kindness, and about making space for creativity. See full interview at Imaginomics
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“The thing that most pulls me through life is to understand who I am as a human being”
“If you are looking at creativity and imagination, you are driven by curiosity rather than goals. Creative endeavours are driven by exploration rather than outcomes”
“There needs to be an environment where you can feel that it’s ok to be curious and to simply explore”
“Everything is creativity in childhood, it’s how you navigate the world. And we all still have that.”
“What the imagination can do is condition us to spend our time watching and reading about really kind, compassionate people, and then believing that the world really is a kind place.”
“What we need to do is build more space for creativity – going for walks, looking out of the window, taking our minds off the task – and then the ideas start flowing.”
“Compassion really helps me. There is nothing that can erase the fact that we are human beings who feel pain. Life is hard and our feelings will get hurt – how can we move with some grace through this?”
“I think creativity is about honouring your own unique voice.”
“We have to make kinder stories.”
Robin Stevens, author
My morning at the British Library taking a journey of discovery into the imagination of Robin Stevens, author of best-selling children’s detective series ‘Murder Most Unladylike’. See imaginomics.org.uk for my full interview
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“For years, I thought that writing was telepathic.”
“Because I was a kid who was on her own a lot, I got to experience many other things and connect with other people through reading”
“As a child, my imaginary friends were simply the stories I was creating, and I became part of the story.”