Real Quotes - Page 32

• I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an ancestor and a grandmother.

  Agnes Varda

  Grandmother, Twenties, Should

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• I'll never forget, Christine Woods came up to me on set and she looked at me so seriously and held my hand, and she's like, "Kether, look at me. In real life, we are beautiful, beautiful women. No one thinks we're fat. In TV, we are TV fat and we just have to get used to it. Don't ever take it personally. We're TV fat. End of story".

  Kether Donohue

  Beautiful, Thinking, Hands

  "‘You’re the Worst’ co-star Kether Donohue on the joys of being ‘TV fat’". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. September 16, 2015.

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• In real everyday life, I don't walk around feeling fat and if on TV I'm considered fat, honestly, I kind of like it, because I'm a big advocate of positive unique representations of women in media. And so I like how I'm able to represent a curvier body and still be beautiful.

  Kether Donohue

  Beautiful, Unique, Media

  "‘You’re the Worst’ co-star Kether Donohue on the joys of being ‘TV fat’". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. September 16, 2015.

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• You have to be strong. You have to know how you are, and you have to know who your partner is and you have to know who your friends, who your real friends are.

  Fergie

  Strong, Partners, Knows

  "Fergie: The Superstar". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 1, 2010.

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• The minute you walk through the door and your kid runs into your arms, you're smacked in the face with a dose of reality: It's like, this is my real life.

  Faith Hill

  Running, Kids, Doors

  "We Love Faith Hill". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. October 1, 2006.

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• In the real world, it is hard to be taken seriously as a woman. Use your brain and be smart about your choices. There's nothing wrong with being a good girl - it's actually very attractive and sexy.

  Faith Hill

  Girl, Sexy, Smart

  "We Love Faith Hill". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. October 1, 2006.

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• It's very important to distinguish between what most people in the West think about knowledge, and what the Indian concept of knowledge is. In the West the knowledge is something that is tangible, is material, it is something that can be transferred easily, can be bought and sold; or as in India real knowledge is something that is a living being - is a Vidya.

  Robert Svoboda

  Thinking, People, Important

  Source: wildyogi.info

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• The good thing about my fans is that they like when I'm awkward and real, so I'm able to just go on stage and be my dorky self.

  Tori Kelly

  Self, Awkward, Fans

  Source: www.pop-buzz.com

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• Somebody broke into my house once, this is a good time to call the police, but mm mm, nope. The house was too nice. It was a real nice house, but they'd never believe i lived in it. They'd be like 'He's still here!

  Dave Chappelle

  Funny, Nice, Believe

  "Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• How are you gonna make an 'idol' from the type of person you're trying to avoid in real life?

  Natasha Leggero

  Funny, Humor, Idols

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• Here's a good rule of thumb: don't worry about a competitor at all, until they're actually beating you with a real shipped product.

  Sam Altman

  Worry, Thumbs, Competitors

  "Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II". "How to Start a Startup" lecture, Stanford, 1pdf.net. September 25, 2014.

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• If someone is difficult to talk to, if someone cannot communicate clearly, it's a real problem in terms of their likelihood to work out.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Work Out, Problem

  "Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II". Sam Altman's "How To Start a Startup" lecture to the class at Stanford University in Stanford, California, genius.com. 2014.

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• So it's worth some real up front time to think through the long term value and the defensibility of the business.

  Sam Altman

  Thinking, Long, Term

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• The real thing you do is you ask a lot of questions.

  Keith Rabois

  Asks, Real Things

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• Most people would agree that the details matter when it faces the user. But where the real debate is on things that don't face the user.

  Keith Rabois

  People, Details, Matter

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• Adults don't know how to respect and really love their young ones. Often love is confused with possession. You say "this is my" about your child, without taking into account that you're dealing with a real person with his/her own personality, rights, and autonomy, even when very young.

  Dacia Maraini

  Children, Confused, Love Is

  "A ‘special’ writer. Dacia Maraini in interview". Interview with Vincenza Fanizza,

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• I always try to approach things from the point of authenticity. I've done that for my short films, working with non-actors from the real environments where you go exploring and placing them into the cast alongside professional actors.

  Tom Green

  Trying, Actors, Done

  Source: dailydead.com

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• I had a real passion for performing. I craved the attention. I was a goofy kid just like I am a goofy adult. So as soon as I got the bug of getting laughs and getting on stage I just couldn't stop.

  Tom Green

  Passion, Kids, Laughing

  Source: www.axs.com

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• I invoke that sense of the particulars of that kind of literal travel and what that has meant historically in terms of diasporas, in terms of the migrations of immigrants coming to this [U.S.] country with a real vision of finding the promised land.

  Anne Waldman

  Country, Land, Vision

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• As the writer you are the puppet-master and can control everything. Believe me, that is a whole lot of fun because it ain't something that's going to be happening very often in real life!

  Christopher Paul Curtis

  Fun, Believe, Puppets

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• Literal thousands of Americans taking to the road and getting into that green automobile and just going. At the same time there is real incredible work [of art] that comes out of it. Never forget that.

  Anne Waldman

  Art, Green, Never Forget

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• I'm concerned about the overuse of spectacular places. And there's no real wilderness left and so there's a heartbreak there. You can go anywhere and be rescued through your cell phone and have some helicopter drop down.

  Anne Waldman

  Phones, Cells, Wilderness

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• I don't really have an ambition to become the Rolling Stones, or anything like that. For me, it's just playing music is kind of a transcendent, amazing gift, so when people come together and they play, I think it's a real special thing.

  Jonathan Jackson

  Ambition, Thinking, Play

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 11, 2002.

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• Small businesses forget how to be social. Everyone tries to do social media when they should just try being social. To be successful with social media, you have to treat each individual person just like you would in real life by establishing a genuine connection with them.

  Jeet Banerjee

  Successful, Media, Trying

  Source: theimarketingcafe.com

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• I have the ability to go back to the old days with the boys and remember what it was like playing music. I have that real connection to the feeling of playing music as a young man. I do. I can almost touch it.

  Joel Plaskett

  Boys, Men, Feelings

  "There's Something About Joel Plaskett". stickymagazine.com. October 11, 2013.

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