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• Your Imagination is YOU yourself, and the world as your Imagination sees it is the real world.

  Neville Goddard

  Real, Imagination, World

  Neville Goddard (2013). “The Power of Awareness”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Real, Bad Day, Dark

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• I’ve starred in a lot of science fiction movies and, let me tell you something, climate change is not science fiction, this is a battle in the real world, it is impacting us right now.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Real, Battle, Climate

  "Arnold Schwarzenegger: climate change is not science fiction" by John Vidal, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2015.

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• Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of the mapmakers.

  Ken Wilber

  Real, Imagination, World

  Ken Wilber (2001). “No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth”, p.25, Shambhala Publications

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• It can be demonstrated that the child's contact with the real world is strengthened by his periodic excursions into fantasy. It becomes easier to tolerate the frustrations of the real world and to accede to the demands of reality if one can restore himself at intervals in a world where the deepest wishes can achieve imaginary gratification.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Real, Frustration

  "The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood". Book by Selma Fraiberg, 1959.

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• Cyberspace still exists at the pleasure of the real world.

  Esther Dyson

  Real, Cyberspace, World

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• I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, Imagination, Trying

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• the world I create in writing compensates for what the real world does not give me.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Real, Writing, Giving

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• I was fortunate that when I was first starting out in New Orleans, I had a remarkable high-school teacher. And she was a great, great influence in my life, and I think she gave me the courage and the confidence to go forward into the real world. She instilled in me that my dreams were important and that what I was passionate about was most important.

  John Cena

  Dream, Teacher, Real

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• People who are lazy may smoke pot and remain lazy. That is aging the person finding a drug to help one create the vegetable style the person wants, as the person cannot live in the real world.

  Steven Machat

  Real, Vegetables, People

  "A Cannabis Crusader Brings The Fight For Legal Weed To America’s Heartland". Interview with Stacey Chillemi, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2016.

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• If there's any kind of morality, for me, it's about reality; what is reality? I have a hard time distinguishing what is valuable when it comes to the real world and the fantasy world. Like, should I invest my time in the ordinary world or the imaginary world?

  Sufjan Stevens

  Real, Hard Times, Ordinary World

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 31, 2011.

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• 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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• I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of the falsification of this real world. That is my theme.

  Ernesto Cardenal

  Real, Civilization, World

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I like stories that exist both in the naturalistic world and in our imaginative lives, films are so immersive in that sense, we can explore how our characters think and dream, as well as how they exist in the real world.

  Dave McKean

  Dream, Real, Character

  Source: theculturalgutter.com

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• When it's real world rules, it will not matter how big you are? When a bullet hits you in the head, you die. It all becomes about how much heart you have when you go into a world that is so scary, that assesses you and finds you either as an asset or full of crap.

  Ric Roman Waugh

  Real, Heart, Scary

  "Waugh Enlists Johnson to Play Everydad in ‘Snitch’". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. February 20, 2013.

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• Real life is generally much duller and inevitably sadder, most of the time. In film, you control everything that's going on, so you can indulge the most fantastic, romantic, escapist feelings and fantasies. You can do anything you want. That's why it's very seductive and pleasurable to earn your living making movies because you're not living in the real world.

  Woody Allen

  Real, Seductive, Feelings

  "Woody Allen Talks TO ROME WITH LOVE, the Importance of Music in His Films, How He Feels About Improvisation, and His Outlook on Retirement". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 20, 2012.

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• I think what I love about science fiction and what sci-fi can be really good at is obviously you're working with outlandish concepts that have very little to do with the real world, like time travel for instance.

  Rian Johnson

  Real, Thinking, Fiction

  Source: screenrant.com

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• If you understand how the real world feels and looks and sounds it is much easier to create a virtual version of the real world.

  John Dykstra

  Real, Sound, Looks

  Interview with Mike Eisenberg, screenrant.com. August 31, 2011.

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• You spend your childhood wanting to get out from your house and wanting to get away and out into the real world and then as adults we start to learn that things are not what we thought they were.

  Wyck Godfrey

  Real, Childhood, House

  Source: collider.com

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• It's hard to get justice in the real world. It's possible in fiction.

  Lauren Beukes

  Real, Justice, Fiction

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• I think it's the real world. The people we're writing about in professional sports, they're suffering and living and dying and loving and trying to make their way through life just as the brick layers and politicians are.

  Red Smith

  Sports, Real, Writing

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• I just think too many nice things have happened in string theory for it to be all wrong. Humans do not understand it very well, but I just don't believe there is a big cosmic conspiracy that created this incredible thing that has nothing to do with the real world.

  Edward Witten

  Real, Nice, Believe

  "Physics' sharpest mind since Einstein" by Candy Crowley, www.cnn.com. July 5, 2005.

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• Although I loved working on technology - I've always been a computer geek at heart - my professors encouraged me to get a real-world job working with customers.

  Marc Benioff

  Jobs, Real, Heart

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• The comics I read as a kid were all about guys in tights. But here was a guy who wore a fedora. He fought crime like they did in Marvel and DC, but he did it in the real world. I had just turned 12 when I met the Spirit and it was a strange coincidence. At the same time I discovered girls I fell out of love with guys in tights.

  Frank Miller

  Girl, Real, Kids

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• The real world has no obligation to be convincing, so it throws up some very weird moments sometimes.

  Neil Gaiman

  Real, World, Sometimes

  "Exclusive Interview: Neil Gaiman on The Weird". WeirdFictionReview.com Interview, weirdfictionreview.com. November 1, 2011.

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