Real Life Quotes - Page 20

• In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

  Wallace Shawn

  Real, Character, Men

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

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• We live in times of high stress. Messages that are simple, messages that are inspiring, messages that are life-affirming, are a welcome break from our real lives.

  Simon Sinek

  Real, Stress, Simple

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• Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

  Samuel Smiles

  Wisdom, Real, School

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.343

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• I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment.

  Kevin Smith

  Real, Feelings, Degrees

  "Exclusive Interview: Kevin Smith". Interview with Max Nicholson, www.ign.com. October 21, 2011.

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• In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons.

  Will Smith

  Real, White, Community

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• I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television.

  Brittany Snow

  Real, Teenager, Mean

  "The Pacifier - Q&A With Brittany Snow, Max Thieriot and Morgan York". Phase9 Interview, www.phase9.tv.

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• When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.

  Todd Solondz

  Real, People, Want

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• Hollywood large is so different than real-life large.

  Jordin Sparks

  Real, Hollywood, Different

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• I just fight in my movies, never in real life.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Real, Fighting

  "Sylvester Stallone talks THE EXPENDABLES – Updated with Images from Set!" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 6, 2009.

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• In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can't control a nine-year-old girl.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Girl, Real, Years

  Shortlist Interview, www.shortlist.com.

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• Tooting my own horn is of no interest to me... it takes you away from real life. It's a waste, and I don't find a need to sing my own praises.

  Paul Stanley

  Real, Needs, Waste

  "KISS Frontman PAUL STANLEY Confirms That He Is Working On His Autobiography". www.blabbermouth.net. November 30, 2012.

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• The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

  Wallace Stevens

  Art, Real, Play

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• I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.

  Taylor Swift

  Real, Rebel, Feels

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• I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we're raised as little girls to think that we're a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Real, Princess

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• Sometimes I get to put on posh frocks and be Madam Glamour, the vendor of my wares. My lovely friend Kath, a stylist, puts me into things I'd never dream of. But my real life is very different. It's very, very home-based - an intense domestic life, that's the core of everything.

  Emma Thompson

  Dream, Real, Home

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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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• If my real life was half as exciting as what is reported, I would be thrilled.

  Gabrielle Union

  Real, Would Be, Half

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• Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.

  David Walliams

  Real, Fiction, Incredibles

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

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• I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.

  Jacki Weaver

  Girl, Mom, Sweet

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

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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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• Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality.

  Bryan White

  Music, Country, Real

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• When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.

  Ricky Williams

  Children, Real, Men

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• I mean, look, I wear makeup in films. I don't wear makeup in real life. It's just part of the gig, that's all.

  Bruce Willis

  Real, Mean, Makeup

  "Interview: Bruce Willis (16 Blocks)". trouble.city. February 13, 2006.

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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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• Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn't investigated. They might find that I don't really exist - that I'm just a hologram.

  Steven Wright

  Real, Might, Holograms

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