Real Things Quotes - Page 12

• I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

  Mae West

  Sarcastic, Witty, Real

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

  Jessamyn West

  Business, Real, People

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• I have a real thing for Mexican directors. And I love Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.

  Emma Watson

  Real, Mexican, Directors

  Interview with Derek Blasberg, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 16, 2009.

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• I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.

  Anthony Trollope

  Real, Rocks, Romance

  Anthony Trollope (1999). “Can You Forgive Her?”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing.

  Jason Schwartzman

  Real, Thinking, Dating

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

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• I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general.

  Jason Schwartzman

  Real, Thinking, Games

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

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• I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all.

  Lou Reed

  Real, Believe, Writing

  "My brilliant and troubled friend Lou Reed" by Anthony DeCurtis, www.theguardian.com. October 01, 2017.

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• The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever.

  Tony Randall

  Real, Play, Theatre

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• If you're going to buy pasta, you should buy dry pasta. If you're going to make it you can make the real thing, but you shouldn't buy fresh pasta.

  Mario Batali

  Real, Dry, Pasta

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• Trends are manufactured. Real things just happen.

  Eicca Toppinen

  Real, Trends, Happens

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• I try to live with the idea that karma is a very real thing. So I put out what I want to get back.

  Megan Fox

  Karma, Real, Ideas

  "Megan Fox calls 'Jonah Hex' shoot 'intense'" by Eric Ditzian, www.mtv.com. June 16, 2010.

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• I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

  Antonia Fraser

  Real, Interesting, Historical

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• Love isn’t perfect. It’s hard work and sometimes it’s more effort to be in love than it is to just run away. If you keep looking for perfect, the real thing is going to pass right by you.

  Jay Crownover

  Running, Real, Hard Work

  Jay Crownover (2014). “Rome (The Marked Men, Book 3)”, p.15, HarperCollins UK

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• There's a kind of decadence about all this: If 9/11 was really an inside job, you wouldn't be driving around with a bumper sticker bragging that you were on to it. Fantasy is a by-product of security: it's the difference between hanging upside down in your dominatrix's bondage parlor after work on Friday and enduring the real thing for years on end in Saddam's prisons.

  Mark Steyn

  Friday, Jobs, Real

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• The real thing is not the goal, the real thing is the beauty of the movement. The real thing is not reaching, the real thing is the journey. Remember, the real thing is the journey, the very traveling. It is so beautiful, why bother about the goal? And if you are too bothered about the goal, you will miss the journey, and the journey is life - the goal can only be death.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Real, Journey

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• After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway.

  Jennifer Ehle

  Giving Up, Real, Rich Life

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• Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Truth, Real, Causes

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• My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Real, Life Is Good, People

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• When my parents died, it became clear to me that there was an end in sight. Death was never a real thing to me. And then when that happened I realized I only have so many years left, if I'm lucky.

  Rick Baker

  Real, Sight, Years

  "Master makeup artist Rick Baker on “An American Werewolf in London” and “Men in Black III”". Interview with Matt Singer, www.ifc.com. September 26, 2011.

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• No, I was never that kind of guy. I believed in true romance; one-night stands are always going to leave you feeling cold and empty. I was always looking for the real thing, romance, and all that. I love being married. I never liked the idea of going to bars and chasing girls. Some guys might enjoy that, but I always wanted to find that one special woman, which I did when I met Jenna.

  Channing Tatum

  Girl, Real, Night

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• I became a Christian man in a very real way. I could have just said the prayers that were on the page, but it was a real thing that really saved me. And you can't identify unless you're really going through it. It's a full-blown exchange of heart, a surrender of control.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Christian, Prayer, Real

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• In other words, in the same way that mass incarceration surged because of a real thing, it's finally starting to ebb because of a real thing: the actual, concrete decline in violent crime that started in the early 90s and which appears to be permanent. America is simply a safer place than it used to be, and looks set to stay that way.

  Kevin Drum

  Real, America, Looks

  "Our Obsession With Mass Incarceration May Finally Be Ebbing" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 2, 2015.

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• The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him. All our faculties keep us within the realm of the real, of what is already there. The most we can do is to combine things or break them up. The metaphor alone furnishes an escape; between the real things, it lets emerge imaginary reefs, a crop of floating islands.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Real, Men, Islands

  "The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset. Chapter "Taboo and Metaphor", 1925.

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• Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Trust, Real, Emotional

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• I don't like honors. I'm appreciated for the work that I did, and for people who appreciate it, and I notice that other physicists use my work. I don't need anything else. I don't think there's any sense to anything else.... I've already got the prize. The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it. Those are the real things. The honors are unreal to me. I don't believe in honors... I can't stand it, it hurts me.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Hurt, Real, Believe

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