Real Stuff Quotes

• Usually, the most difficult thing to do is photo-real stuff. Something that has to actually look like the real world, because it's just so difficult to do that. We're just so used to looking at the real world, our brains instantly see when something is not quite right.

  Dave McKean

  Real, Brain, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I was a kid, I was taken to something called Telenews in Cleveland by my best friend's father. My own father was gone by the time I was 5, I think, but this man would take us to Telenews at the end of World War II, and we'd watch all these newsreels. I'd seen real stuff. That kind of stuck in my mind.

  Wes Craven

  Real, War, Father

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and there is no more serious crime in the law of war. The Army says they never leave their wounded. The Marines say they never leave even their dead. These men have left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude. They have left the real stuff of their reputation bleaching behind them in the sun in this country.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Real, War

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• History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.

  Auberon Waugh

  Real, People, Drug

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• Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Real, Smart, Moving

  Anthony Elliott, Zygmunt Bauman (2007). “The contemporary Bauman”

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• Where our knowledge of beauty harmonizes with the ludus naturae, sorcery begins.No, not spoon-bending or horoscopy, not the Golden Dawn or make-believe shamanism, astral projection or the Satanic Mass--if it's mumbo jumbo you want go for the real stuff, banking, politics, social science--not that weak blavatskian crap.

  Hakim

  Real, Believe, Dawn

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• When you blow away the foam, you get down to the real stuff.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Real, Blow, Foam

  T. Boone Pickens (2008). “The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future”, p.84, Crown Business

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• Rule No. 1 is you can't be fake. If you're fake, you become a gimmick and you're selling a gimmick; a little gimmick is cool, this is entertainment. But when you base your stuff on mostly real stuff, you never run out of it because every day is a different adventure.

  Nas

  Running, Real, Adventure

  "Q&A: With 4 nods, rapper Nas aims for Grammy gold". Interview with Mesfin Fekadu, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. January 9, 2013.

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• I don't really hashtag things. Unless I'm talking to somebody and I'm being funny and I say something mean but then I'm like, Hashtag...something that's funny. I like to only hashtag funny things, not real stuff.

  Bella Thorne

  Real, Mean, Talking

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I don't ever want to do a movie where you shoot it on a motion capture stage. I just don't like taking the reality out of it. I like being on the set in real environments. I don't like shooting on green screen. I think it gives the actors so much more to play with when there's real stuff happening on the set.

  Michael Bay

  Real, Thinking, Play

  Interview, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Well, I think in trying to make life seem real enough that one is moved to do something about the more atrocious things. By going really far afield into a completely fake world, maybe there's a chance to make things resonant somehow - or in this case, truly terrifying. To make it as bad as the real stuff that's happening.

  Jenny Holzer

  Real, Thinking, Fake World

  WIRED Interview, www.wired.com. February 1, 1994.

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• There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.

  Peter Zumthor

  Real, Quality, Needs

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• I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.

  Anais Nin

  Real, Drama, Profound

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• It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stars, Clever, Real

  "Sir Terry Pratchett: hallucinating gently for a living". Interview with Corinne Podger, www.abc.net.au. April 30, 2011.

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• I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you've never been. It's the most amiable sort of magic I know.

  Stephen King

  Real, Magic, Mind

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• The future could go this way, that way. The future's futures have never looked so rocky. Don't put money on it. Take my advice and stick to the present. It's the real stuff, the only stuff, it's all there is, the present, the panting present.

  Martin Amis

  Real, Advice, Stuff

  FaceBook post by Martin Amis from Jun 24, 2013

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• All of the good, weird stories I’ve written are based on things I’ve dredged out of my subconscious. That’s the real stuff. Everything else is fake.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, Fake, Stories

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• I didn’t care…about heroes who could read minds or walk through walls or do magic. The heroes I liked had courage and knew more real stuff than those who opposed them.

  Homer Hickam

  Wall, Real, Hero

  Homer Hickam (1999). “Rocket Boys”, p.27, Dell

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• The truth of country music, the real stuff, will prevail ..... generation after generation.

  Marty Stuart

  Country, Real, Generations

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• A lack of communication between citizens and policemen is real stuff.

  Stevie Wonder

  Real, Communication, Stuff

  "This Hillary Clinton interview is my favorite of the entire 2016 election". "The Breakfast Club", www.washingtonpost.com. October 26, 2016.

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• Writing about real stuff that really concerned me brought out my craft. If you're writing a story about, 'Is Lois Lane gonna figure out that Superman is Clark Kent?' - it's really hard to get involved in that on anything other than a craft level. And I'm not gonna put down craftsmanship; it is a noble enough thing to have made a table that you can pound on and it doesn't fall down. But occasionally, we might have an assignment that engages some other parts of ourselves, and those tend to be the good stories.

  Dennis O'Neil

  Real, Fall, Writing

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• When they write about real stuff like my custody battle, that's no fun. Some things have leaked out about accusations that have gone back and forth and that's just mean. It's a tactic.

  Dean Cain

  Fun, Real, Writing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are two kinds of books in the world--the boring kind they make you read in school and the interesting kind that they won't let you read in school because then they would have to talk about real stuff like sex and divorce and is there a God and if there isn't then what happens when you die, and how come the history books have so many lies in them.

  LouAnne Johnson

  Sex, Real, Lying

  Louanne Johnson (2009). “Muchacho: A Novel”, p.79, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it's simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.

  Dolly Parton

  Country, Real, Simple

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• There is a strong feeling in the Middle West that the artist is not pulling his own weight no matter how hard he may work, that the other people are doing the real stuff.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Strong, Real, Artist

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