Being Real Quotes - Page 25

• In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.

  Jack Nicholson

  Crazy, Real, Thinking

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• The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Pain, Real

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.9, HarperCollins

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• I knew nothing of the life of a real musician, of course, but somehow I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion.

  Lawrence Welk

  Real, People, Musician

  "Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk".

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• I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.

  Anne Tyler

  Real, Character, Literature

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• Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• I like to be real private; you don't always want everyone around you - even when they like you.

  Axl Rose

  Real, Want, Like You

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• He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.

  Salman Rushdie

  Real, Magic, World

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Haroun and the Sea of Stories”, Penguin Books

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• Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wisdom, Time, Real

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.35, Bertrand Russell

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• I had no coaching. I came out of the world of pro wrestling. In that job there are no agents, no publicists, no media training. It's just you and the crowd, and you have to be real to win them over. And if you don't, you're not gonna eat. And that's it.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Real, Wrestling, Winning

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• Faith is personal if it's to be real.

  Bear Grylls

  Real, Ifs

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• You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.

  Bradley Whitford

  Real, Needs, Enough

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• You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you've made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who's been sent away to boarding school can understand that.

  Colm Toibin

  Real, Home, School

  "You can take the man out of Ireland". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2009.

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• A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. A book may measure so-called reality as a clock measures so-called time; a book may create an illusion of reality as a clock creates an illusion of time; a book may be real, just as a clock is real (both more real, perhaps, than those ideas to which they allude); but let's not kid ourselves - all a clock contains is wheels and springs and all a book contains is sentences.

  Tom Robbins

  Spring, Real, Book

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.121, Bantam

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• He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about...like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Real, Sky

  "The Great Gatsby". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chapter 8, 1925.

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• As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a society where literally tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of college students aspire to the writer's trade and where bare hundreds actually break through.

  Stephen King

  Real, College, Break Through

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• We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that.

  Layne Staley

  Real, Nice, People

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• Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad.

  Rick Riordan

  Real, Would Be, Apollo

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• Every day after I wake up, I think, 'Wait... this can't be real; I'm still going to wake up.'

  Michael Phelps

  Sports, Real, Thinking

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• You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that's one of the biggest honors of my life.

  Steve Wozniak

  Life, Jobs, Real

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• The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.

  Zadie Smith

  Real, Rap, Ghetto

  "We are family". Interview with Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2005.

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• But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.

  Coolio

  Travel, Growing Up, Kids

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

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• The truth, huh? No one wants to hear the truth. The truth is never sexy. But you... You are too goddamned sexy to be real. -Christian to Lissa

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Sexy, Real

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• 'Do you know what Ed Gein said about women?' [...] '"When I see a pretty girl walking down the street I think two things. One part of me wants to take her out and talk to her and be real nice and sweet and treat her right."' I stop finish my J&B in one swallow. 'What does the other part of him think?' Hamlin asks tentatively. 'What her head would look like on a stick...'

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Girl, Sweet, Real

  "American Psycho". Book by Bret Easton Ellis, 1991.

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• There is no such things as God's word on earth. Or if there is it is not to be found in books. -Then where is it to be found?- In love. In the laughter of children. In a gift given. In a life saved. In the quiet of morning. In the dead of night. In the sound of the ocean, or the sound of a car. It can be found in anything, anywhere. It is the fabric of our lives, our feelings, the people we live with, things we know to be real.

  James Frey

  Morning, Laughter, Children

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• Dani," Decker said firmly. "Trust me, this is not a dream." "Why is it you men always say trust me before spitting out something completely unpalatable?" she asked, irritation flickering through her. "Vampires aren't supposed to be real. And how come you had to be a cute vampire? You should be a dog. All evil, vile people should look as ugly as they are inside." "We aren't ev--" Decker halted his denial, and then did something she hadn't yet seen him do and lifted his lips in a very rare-and in her opinion, totally inappropriate-grin as he asked, "You think I'm cute?

  Lynsay Sands

  Cute, Dream, Dog

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