Real Quotes - Page 18

• I like driving. I'm a real sucker for driving across North America - I never get sick of it, ever.

  Neko Case

  America, Sick, Driving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A lot of young painters love to incorporate celebrity. One idea of being a painter is to use what's happening at the time. Velázquez was painting of his time. And so was Rembrandt. And Francis Bacon was painting his time in London. He was a real mover, but he saw the insect in the rose. But yes, when I do a painting, I want to take the "I did this" out of it. That's why I started using chance, like the markings on the wood. I never wanted to compose.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Ideas, Rose, Use

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I believe in storytelling, not story-selling. I want people to believe the characters are real. So I'm a realist.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Believe, Character, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me. To fall into a black hole, that is more amazing than anything I've ever read in a science-fiction story.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Fall, Fiction Stories, Black

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas. The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas. That's the real goal.

  Alexander Payne

  Ideas, Goal, Flying

  Source: collider.com

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• My only real requirement is that I like the projects to be good and I like the people that I work with to be really nice people and great people, and as long as that's the case the music is fun to do always.

  Christopher Lennertz

  Fun, Nice, Long

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• I think unintentionally I gravitate towards concepts and topics that hit home or are something real we can all relate to.

  Seth Gordon

  Home, Thinking, Topics

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• The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Real Life, Ideas, Abstract

  "Obama Is Like a Chess Player". Interview with Jan Fleischhauer and Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. July 6, 2009.

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• I always loved horror as a kid. On the one hand, I really love monsters, because in a way I feel like I related to their outsider status and like the sentimental romantic plight of the monster. More importantly though I feel like people are completely motivated by fear, especially with our political system here in America which is just degenerating into more and more fear mongering and it gets in the way of real discourse, plus it's just something I'm obsessive about and have always been a little bit of a paranoid guy.

  Larry Fessenden

  Kids, Hands, Fear Mongering

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• Movie acting is harder than doing a play. You have to be entertaining but completely natural, like Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant. They weren't doing anything. Do you have any idea how hard that is? That's how good they were. It's crazy hard to be convincing and real. It's the most subtle, hardest thing there is.

  Jon Lovitz

  Crazy, Play, Ideas

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• The paintings are not just on flat walls - you have these enormous niches, bulges and protrusions, as well as stalactites and stalagmites. The effect of the three-dimensionality is phenomenal. It's a real drama which the artists of the time understood, and they used it for the drama of their paintings.

  Werner Herzog

  Wall, Drama, Artist

  "'The Birth of the Modern Human Soul'". Interview with David Gordon Smith, www.spiegel.de. February 16, 2011.

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• Black people watch more television than anybody else, which makes it legitimate to talk about television. Its anesthetizing effect has been quite real. But that concern isn't new.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  People, Black, Watches

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• There is no question that a breakup of the euro would be very damaging, very costly, both financially and politically. And the biggest loss would be incurred by Germany. Germans have to bear in mind that, effectively, they have suffered practically no losses so far. Transfers have all been in the form of loans, and it is only when the loans are not repaid that real losses will be incurred.

  George Soros

  Breakup, Loss, Mind

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When you write the script, you're home in a room by yourself, and you're writing, and there's no connection with the real performing world. So you get a lot of things wrong and make a lot of mistakes and make a lot of bad choices.

  Woody Allen

  Mistake, Home, Writing

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• I think everything needs to be played real, for reality's sake, for truth. And that is the drama and the comedy. When you do that, it's funnier. And when you do that, you really do hit the emotional beats. I do it the same way as I do a drama. I just play it for truth, and then maybe have a little bit of fun with it sometimes.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Fun, Drama, Emotional

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• I'm constantly scared. I'm constantly fearful of what's to come and people don't realize that just because you're doing something doesn't mean that you're fearless but you get up every day and you do it. It takes a lot of courage to be real.

  Adrienne Bailon

  Mean, People, Fearless

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• I don't need 15 houses. Owning real estate doesn't mean much to me. I don't like to think about things like that. I don't need 12 boats, or even the world's largest boat with a crew of 80. I'd have to take care of them, to worry about them. I get a lot more fun out of life without all the bells and whistles.

  Warren Buffett

  Fun, Mean, Thinking

  "Germans Know Something About Business". Interview with Christoph Pauly and Janko Tietz, www.spiegel.de. May 28, 2008.

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• One thing about everything that I've done is it's so diverse and all over the place, from doing crazy stunts that I can't believe that I've done to launching professional skateboard leagues to all types of different business stuff and television shows. To me, I'm real proud of the body of work, that I've done as opposed to one thing specifically.

  Rob Dyrdek

  Crazy, Believe, League

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• A year after I'd graduated college, I went to a weeklong conference intensive in Boston, and that's when things kicked into high gear. My workshop leader was a Harvard professor and editor. At the end of the week we met one-on-one over breakfast, and she said, in essence, "Look, you're ready to turn pro." She gave me a list of literary agents to query once I had something to show them. I came home and wrote my first real novel, and the agent that sold it to Tor Books was on that list.

  Brian Hodge

  Book, Home, College

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• The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Imagination, World

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.believermag.com. March 2003.

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• I think maybe written films are better than real films. You can see them in your head and yet everything is exactly as you want it to be.

  Hal Hartley

  Thinking, Want, Film

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra thing to what we all know is real. But our job as artists or as human beings is to investigate what we really think is real.

  Chris Martin

  Jobs, Crazy, Thinking

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. November 2013.

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• As an artist, one doesn't know what is real. And so there's a search and a process of trying to locate something that feels or appears or somehow resonates with us on a deeper level. This is why art is such an interesting business to be in.

  Chris Martin

  Art, Interesting, Trying

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. November 2013.

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• There's this idea that artists are free and that means that we can do whatever we want to do. And it's very important to engage with this idea, just as human beings, that we are free to do what we wanna do. So the real question becomes, then, what do we wanna do? And as one gets to know oneself, one finds that there are things that return again and again that you wanna do.

  Chris Martin

  Mean, Artist, Ideas

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. November 2013.

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• I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of 15,000 people.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Writing, Names

  Source: www.glamour.com

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