Real Person Quotes

• That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

  Jim Morrison

  Famous Love, Being Yourself, True Friend

  "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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• In our relationships we need to uphold that aspect of the person which is the real person and the soul beyond their own self-doubt.

  Vilayat Inayat Khan

  Real, Caring, Self

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• ... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in us through the intermediary of an image of that joy or that misfortune; the ingeniousness of the first novelist was in understanding that, in the apparatus of our emotions, since the image is the only essential element, the simplification which consists of purely and simply suppressing the factual characters is a definitive improvement.

  Marcel Proust

  Real, Character, Joy

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• An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Real, Men, Inspire

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The only real person you need to know is you.

  Alice Cooper

  Real, Needs, Adages

  Song: Living, Album: Pretties For You, 1969

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• I wrote about Bosnia at the time. Somebody looked out their window and saw gangsters coming down the street and doing ethnic cleansing. I said that was the thing that would happen in the future, someone phoning in what they were seeing on the scene. Whether it's the Huffington Post, the Daily Beast, Drudge Report or the BBC, all those reports, you have to assume there's a real person [who] has credibility.

  Harold Evans

  Real, Cleansing, Bosnia

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, www.pbs.org. October 29, 2009.

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• If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

  Caroline B. Cooney

  Real, Writing, Way

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• I feel like when you're a celebrity, people dehumanize you and they forget you're a real person.

  Big Sean

  Real, People, Forget You

  "Chris Brown 'Made A Mistake,' Big Sean says" by Alvin Blanco, www.mtv.com. March 23, 2011.

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• Everyone brings their own perceptions when reading a book about a real person. At the end they will take away whatever they wish.

  Patricia Montandon

  Real, Book, Reading

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you play a real person, you feel a sense of responsibility that obviously you don't feel when you're playing a fictional character.

  Natalie Dormer

  Real, Character, Responsibility

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.

  Bono

  Kings, Real, Thinking

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• I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Real, Passion, Heart

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• I guess when you see somebody in the hallway or on the field or something, it's nice to know that they are a real person.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Real, Nice, Fields

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you." The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Atheist, Real, Fighting

  "Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 1999.

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• It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

  Italo Calvino

  Real, Book, Reading

  "Enter the maze" by David Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2004.

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• True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them. That's illusion and lies to me.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Real, Lying, Mean

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2013). “Affliction”, p.221, Penguin

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• It's not often real that you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest part of someone. It's not comfortable what you do.

  Veronica Roth

  Real, Encounters, Mask

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• I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a real person that has to find that special amulet or mushroom to get to that next realm or level. I don't feel like anything is that tangible. It freaks me out, why I feel unhappy or conflicted and why that can change on a dime. I feel very manic right now, but I'm confident where I am.

  Carly Pope

  Change, Real, Mushrooms

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The real person you are is revealed in the moments when you're certain no other person is watching. When no one is watching, you are driven by what you expect of yourself.

  Ralph Marston

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• The Bully has a Jekyll and Hyde nature - is vile, vicious and vindictive in private, but innocent and charming in front of witnesses; no-one can (or wants to) believe this individual has a vindictive nature - only the current target of the serial bully's aggression sees both sides; whilst the Jekyll side is described as "charming" and convincing enough to deceive personnel, management and a tribunal, the Hyde side is frequently described as "evil"; Hyde is the real person, Jekyll is an act.

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Real, Believe

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• You get a real person down there and his talking will take care of itself.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Real, Writing, Talking

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.301, Macmillan

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• Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.

  John Steinbeck

  Real, Writing, Helping

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• I don't speak, I float in the air wrapped in a sheet
  I'm not a real person, I'm a ghost trapped in a beat

  Eminem

  Real, Air, Hip Hop

  Song: Bad Meets Evil part II, Album: The Slim Shady LP, 1999

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• But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that’s maybe what helped me to get the part.

  Olivier Martinez

  Real, Opposites, Directors

  "New Again: Olivier Martinez". Interview with Vince Passaro, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2012.

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• Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work of a real person or family, people who built their lives around a promise and watched it break.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Country, Real, Animal

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.113, Faber & Faber

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