Being Real Quotes - Page 23

• I'm of the opinion that the real is imagined and the imagined is quite real. The real is imagined, in the sense that we shape our stories, so anything that even happens on the news gets shaped in a certain way and gets a texture, and that the imagined can be real.

  Colum McCann

  Real, News, Stories

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• Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.

  Bob Goff

  Jesus, Real, Our Lives

  Bob Goff, Donald Miller (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.15, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know? And the more grave or important things are... You know, some comedians can get this disease where they get serious all the time.

  Norm MacDonald

  Sports, Real, Thinking

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• I'm me on the mound. I like to show my emotion, be real aggressive and give everything I've got for one half inning. I don't have to act. What you see on the mound is what I am in real life.

  Eric Gagne

  Real, Giving, Half

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• What are you, Elle? Are you a ghost? Are you an angel or a demon? Because you can’t be real.

  Megan Hart

  Real, Angel, Ghost

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• To me, being popular means I've got more friends. You've got to watch who your friends are, if you want to get close to them, but I've got a lot of acquaintances. And then, you've got to be real careful who your friends are, because you never know why they're your friend.

  Reba McEntire

  Real, Mean, Watches

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 25, 2005.

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• The only thing I think I can be accused of about paparazzi is being really naive. I didnt think about it coming along with the job and I never, during my three years at drama school, fantasized about one bit of it.

  Paul Bettany

  Jobs, Drama, School

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• Things are only real after one has learned to agree on their realness. What took place this evening, for instance, cannot possibly be real to you, because no one could agree with you about it. 'Do you mean that you didn't see what happened?'. Of course I did. But I don't count. I am the one who's lying to you, remember?

  Carlos Castaneda

  Real, Lying, Mean

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• I don't want to dream anymore, I want my life to be real!

  Ricky Martin

  Dream, Real, Want

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

  Ruth Rendell

  Dream, Real, May

  FaceBook post by Ruth Rendell from May 15, 2012

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• My goal is to help elect not only the first but second woman president. That will be real progress. I believe our next presidential election will see women at the top of the ticket for both parties.

  Barbara Lee

  Real, Party, Believe

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• ... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

  Jane Austen

  Attachment, Unjust, May

  Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.157, Wild Jot Press

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• A myth doesn't have to be real to be true.

  Joseph Campbell

  Real, Being True, Myth

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• Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys.

  Ken Kesey

  Real, Guy, Black

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.16, Hamilton Books

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• Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.

  Dean Koontz

  Real, Book, Evil

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• I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.

  Loretta Lynn

  Real, Smart, Ghouls

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• I want to tell Tobet about when i was standing in this exact same place last summer, wishing for him to be real. But it's hard to remember life before Tobey. He makes eveything seem possible. Like whatever you feel is true, really true in your heart, you can make happen. And you just know, when it happens, its for real. And there are a million possibilities. Like the possibility of going separate ways. Together.

  Susane Colasanti

  Summer, Real, Heart

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• In acting class they tell you that you have to be real, connect with the people, connect with your partner. The same as politics, you have to connect to the people.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Real, Class, People

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I am naturally pretty shy. I've come out of it a pretty good bit because I'm kind of a strange combination of being really shy and also being a born entertainer. I've got both in me and I guess it depends on my surroundings as to what's going to come out more prominently.

  Leigh Bingham Nash

  Shy, Strange, Kind

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I have, in my partner George Roberts, a person who is the most wonderful man in the world to me. He's like a brother to me. Creating with him, being side by side with him, in whatever we try to do, is a real pleasure to me.

  Henry Kravis

  Brother, Real, Men

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• I always thought that the movie had to be really raw, very edgy, that everything had to be super grounded and feel very real. If this was going to be a story about kids discovering time travel and building a time machine that we needed to believe that they really did it .

  Dean Israelite

  Real, Believe, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• I think the idea, first and foremost, is to understand that people may label these characters as villains, but at the end of the day I have to fall in love with the characters that I play. For me, they have to be real characters with real objectives, and driving forces. So they're all different.

  Edi Gathegi

  Falling In Love, Real, Character

  "No Rest for the Wicked: Edi Gathegi Talks 'Criminal Activities', 'The Blacklist' and Playing Villainous Characters". Interview with Aramide Tinubu, www.indiewire.com. November 19, 2015.

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• If any man should conceive certain things as being really good, such as prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude, he would not after having first conceived these endure to listen to anything which should not be in harmony with what is really good.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Justice, Firsts

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.25, Lulu.com

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• The perils, rewards, punishments, and fulfillments of an adventure must be real, or the adventure is only a shifting and heartless nightmare. If I bet I must be made to pay, or there is no poetry in betting. If I challenge I must be made to fight, or there is no poetry in challenging. If I vow to be faithful I must be cursed when I am unfaithful, or there is no fun vowing.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fun, Real, Adventure

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• Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Dream, Real, Eye

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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