Real Quotes - Page 35

• Different drinks have different metaphorical weight. Wine's heady, gin is poisonous, vodka's cold, and beer is plain boring. In real life, I'm a big fan of boxed white wine, much to the dismay of my more refined friends.

  Cate Marvin

  Wine, Beer, White

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• I actually find it pretty tedious when magazines ask me to write articles based on my real life, because I've already lived it and there's nothing new to discover. So, I'm unlikely to write a memoir.

  Nick Earls

  Writing, Magazines, Unlikely

  Source: www.stephbowe.com

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• I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people work.

  Nick Earls

  People, Attention, Fiction

  Source: www.stephbowe.com

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• One of the things that makes characters real is details. Life offers a lot of details. You just have to choose and use them wisely. When you give them to fictional people and a fictional story, their purpose and their meaning changes, so it's best to see the version in the book as fiction entirely, wherever it started out.

  Nick Earls

  Book, Character, People

  Source: www.stephbowe.com

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• Sometimes it feels weird being an actor surrounded by all these real fighters and you gotta keep your confidence high and do your best to learn it as quickly as possible.

  Sean Faris

  Actors, Fighter, Sometimes

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. February 21, 2008.

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• I really think that people are getting fed up with the computer generated music. I think it had a little time where it was new and it kind of worked, but it's so overdone that people are getting sick of it, and are turning back to real music.

  Jason Reeves

  Thinking, People, Sick

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• Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.

  J. Stalin

  Home, Men, Liberty

  Source: www.marxists.org

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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

  Civilization, World, Speak

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Some people prefer to see the game in the television than to go to the stadium. With virtual reality this will go to be worse, but at the end the "real" reality will win, because a virtual meal is not the same thing as a real one!

  Rodolfo Llinas

  Winning, Games, People

  Source: www.cerebromente.org.br

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• Hinduism, Confucianism, and Buddhism are huge traditions of enormous importance, and they aren't monotheistic. Again, this reflects the fact that our preconceptions about what religion is are so influenced by Protestantism - either real Protestantism or the secularized Protestantism that dominates our culture - and its assumption that beliefs are the most important thing.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Buddhism, Important, Culture

  Source: blogs.ssrc.org

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• I was on the playground all night. I ain't never go to parties or nothing. I'd get out of school at 3 and be out there playing until one in the morning with one streetlight. For real.

  Moses Malone

  Morning, Party, School

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• You don't realize the atmosphere in the arena until you're down on the ice for real, especially during the playoffs. You come out of the gate, you hear the fans going crazy, you know you're at home and in for a good time. It's something special, that's for sure.

  Joe Thornton

  Crazy, Home, Ice

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. September 29, 2006.

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• I understand that in the industry, a lot of it isn't real. Which is a difficult thing. Where I come from a lot of people are straightforward and I've had to learn how to not say exactly what I feel. Sometimes it gets frustrating being a person who says what he feels and what his heart is telling him. Every once in a while I fall into letting the industry get the best of me and not just saying exactly what I feel.

  Wale

  Fall, Heart, People

  "Wale Talks Media Hate, Charles Hamilton & Celebrity Women". Interview with Ernest Baker, www.complex.com. June 4, 2009.

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• Sometimes I'm just a little bit too honest. There was some things that were going on behind the scenes that I didn't like because it's not what hip-hop is about. Hip-hop is about honesty and it's about being real to the people, and I kinda felt like there's some instances where some artists aren't 100% honest with the people. Their integrity is lacking sometimes. And sometimes it comes out.

  Wale

  Honesty, Integrity, Artist

  "Wale Talks Media Hate, Charles Hamilton & Celebrity Women". Interview with Ernest Baker, www.complex.com. June 4, 2009.

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• When you're just reading a note card but when you're just reading a note card and it doesn't even feel real, it's difficult at times. But I have no problem doing interviews. So I have absolutely no problem doing interviews.

  Wale

  Reading, Cards, Interviews

  Source: www.complex.com

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• There's a lot of real unity - and a lot fake unity, sadly. I think a lot of people are going to get an opportunity to pursue greatness and pursue careers outside of D.C. Not everybody is going to make it. I think there's a connotation that there's a lack of rappers out there.

  Wale

  Rapper, Opportunity, Greatness

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You're jumping over the bench, jumping back onto the ice and you're working as a unit. Defenders can move up the ice and score goals as well as the forwards. It's a real fast, physical game. It's the fastest game on earth so it's pretty enjoyable to watch.

  Gerad Adams

  Moving, Jumping, Ice

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• When you're on your own you have control over most of the variables involved in the preparation and the race itself, whilst in a team event you are only a part of the overall picture. The real upside of being part of a team is the fact that when you're successful in a race you can share the celebrations together.

  Chris Hoy

  Team, Successful, Race

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• People are attracted to teaching because they want to make a real impact. The teachers who are making the greatest difference go far beyond meeting standardised test measures. They aspire to truly level the playing field for their students, which means inspiring a love of learning, fostering the highest levels of critical thinking, building perseverance in working towards academic excellence, and so on.

  Wendy Kopp

  Perseverance, Teacher, Teaching

  Source: www.economist.com

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• The limitations of federal laws are able to create real progress at the local level. Ultimately, to effect not just incremental progress but progress that is transformational for students, we need committed leadership - people who believe deeply that their students can achieve at the highest levels and who know how to create the conditions at the classroom, school and system level to give them the opportunities they deserve.

  Wendy Kopp

  Believe, School, Opportunity

  Source: www.economist.com

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• Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation.

  George R. R. Martin

  Character, Historical, Events

  Source: www.bernardcornwell.net

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• In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years I did nothing else. Every holiday I went to courses. Meditation is a real simple instrument. You don't need a long beard or a sari. It's meant to bring you to yourself. It's as easy as that. And that's what it's all about, being alone with yourself every day, for 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes in the evening.

  Peter Lindbergh

  Morning, Holiday, Simple

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• These are people from everywhere, from Lawrence Livermore and JPL and Sandia National Labs, the FBI, all over the place, real scientists who see what we're doing, and they consistently thank us. "I agree your results aren't always right," they'll say, "but your methods are clearly showing that science is a re-creative process, and it's an interesting process because it's messy, and no other shows show that."

  Adam Savage

  People, Interesting, Creative

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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

  Brain, Looks, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm just shallow and self-interested, and don't get out much because I'm afraid of real commitments.

  Henry Rollins

  Commitment, Self, Shallow

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