Real Feelings Quotes

• If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Real, Feelings, Vibrations

  Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2001.

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• Until we become fully free, we put up a false front, a facade, to others for the purpose of winning the acceptance and approval of others. We behave in accordance with what we think the other one wants rather than by expressing our own real feelings.

  Lester Levenson

  Spiritual, Real, Acceptance

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• You have to deduce a person's real feelings about a thing by a smile she does not know is on her face, by the way bitterness tightens muscles at a mouth's corner, or the way air is allowed to flow from the lungs.

  Doris Lessing

  Real, Air, Feelings

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• We must be amusing at all times and sneer at those who express their real feelings; it's dangerous for a tribe to allow its members to show their feelings.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Real, Inspiration

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• From here on out, I am only interested in what is real. Real people, real feelings, that's it. That's all I'm interested in.

  Billy Crudup

  Truth, Real, People

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• If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.

  Robert Henri

  Memories, Real, Feelings

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.

  Billie Holiday

  Music, Real, Mean

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.61, Broadway Books

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• Not so deep down, we all know that safety is an illusion, that only character melds us together. That’s why most of us do everything we can (healthy and unhealthy) to ward off that real feeling of standing alone so close to the edge of the world.

  Kiese Laymon

  Real, Character, Safety

  Kiese Laymon (2016). “How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America”, p.72, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Real, Feelings, Age

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8441, Delphi Classics

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  If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

  Billie Holiday

  Real, Mean, Two

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.61, Broadway Books

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• I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Real, Feelings, Texture

  "Unhaling: On God, Grace and a Perfectly Imperfect Life". Book by Elise Seyfried (p. 85), May 6, 2010.

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• Everyone at 'CSI' has been so great to work with, and so great in terms of scheduling. There's a real feeling of family on that set... I've grown to have so much respect for the cast and crew - they're been together so many years and still care about the show and each other.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Real, Years, Csi

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• So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.

  Lee Child

  Jobs, Real, Book

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• So much of rock lyrics is just a mirror of real feeling. It doesn't feel dangerous to me. They just feel like "rock lyrics."

  Stephen Malkmus

  Real, Mirrors, Rocks

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's a feeling about it. You feel almost like a cabinetmaker, laying planks. There's a real feeling when you know you're getting it right. It's a physical feeling.

  Robert Caro

  Real, Feelings, Knows

  "The Big Book" by Chris Jones, www.esquire.com. April 12, 2012.

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• I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of artistic eyesight; and I illustrated my lack of real feeling for art by a very early speech: 'Mama,' said I, 'I have drawed a man. Shall I draw his soul now?

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Art, Real, Men

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley (1911). “The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson”

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• I've found for the last couple of years that the things that I can become most deeply involved with are songs that reflect my real feelings about things and so that what I've been writing about.

  Neil Diamond

  Song, Couple, Real

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• The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Real, Feelings, Ridiculous

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.272

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• I never utter my real feelings about anything. My lighter, superficial side will always be too quick for the deeper side of me, and that's why it always wins.

  Anne Frank

  Real, Winning, Feelings

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.172, GENERAL PRESS

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• Anger is not a real feeling. Every time in my life I've ever been angry, it's because I was scared, or because I was sad and I didn't know it. Anger doesn't just come out of a vacuum.

  Damon Lindelof

  Real, Feelings, Vacuums

  "Damon Lindelof on Struggling With Depression and Why Knowing J.J. Abrams is 'A Bit of a Curse'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 8, 2015.

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• Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.

  Lord Acton

  Real, Feelings, Ink

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• The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings, with real feelings. Mean-spirited humor turns the world into cardboard, the way Midas's simple-minded greed turned food into inedible and useless stuff.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Real, Mean, Simple

  Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com

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• Couldn't we end this interview with what I really want to say? That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship -- everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. If we could end this article saying just that, we'd get down to what we should all be talking about. Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Brother, Stars, Real

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• Fear is like a giant fog. It sits on your brain and blocks everything - real feelings, true happiness, real joy. They can't get through that fog. But you lift it, and buddy, you're in for the ride of your life.

  Albert Brooks

  Life, Happiness, Fear

  "Fictional character: Bob Diamond". "Defending Your Life", www.imdb.com. March 22, 1991.

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• The real feeling of youth comes when we actually think in the consciousness of youth and give the realization of the now to every thought.

  Christian D. Larson

  Real, Thinking, Giving

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.294, Penguin

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