Realist Quotes - Page 9

• I'm a realist and a dreamer. There are certain things you can give certain people and certain things you can't.

  Amy Winehouse

  Giving, People, Dreamer

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• Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Names, Cynicism, Cynic

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• The making of miracles to edification was as ardently admired by pious Victorians as it was sternly discouraged by Jesus of Nazareth. Not that the Victorians were unique in this respect. Modern writers also indulge in edifying miracles though they generally prefer to use them to procure unhappy endings, by which piece of thaumaturgy they win the title of realists.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Jesus, Winning, Unique

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2015). “The Mind of the Maker”, p.58, Open Road Media

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• I like to think I'm some savage realist.

  Nick Frost

  Thinking, Savages

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• You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist.

  David Eddings

  Majesty, Cynic, Accused

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• To me, what I define as defiance, in some ways, is knowing the "reality" and having the ability to possess a realist mindstate yet still working towards the fantasy and still being childish. While still having the understanding and capacity that would generally inspire pessimism: some sort of more realist perspective that I think most people classify as adult. Anything like that and anything that's sort of fun.

  Alex Ebert

  Fun, Reality, Thinking

  "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Hillary Clinton is pretty much what we would call a foreign-policy realist, someone who thinks the purpose of American foreign policy should be to adjust the foreign policies of other countries, work closely with traditional allies in Europe and Asia towards that end.

  Richard N. Haass

  Country, Thinking, Europe

  "Examining The Foreign Policy Outlook Of Hillary Clinton And Donald Trump". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. September 2, 2016.

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• I am indeed a moral realist.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Moral

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I am now a decided non-naturalist realist. And today we may even speak of a trend towards non-naturalist moral realism.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  May, Trends, Today

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I am neither a pessimist nor an optimist. I am a realist, and the reality in Iraq is that it has been very hard and it continues to be hard.

  David Petraeus

  Reality, Iraq, Pessimist

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If you're a realist, you know that people have different roles to play in politics, economics, and this is an important role, but I do think that there has to be an understanding of how what happens here on Wall Street has such broad consequences not just for the domestic but the global economy, so more thought has to be given to the process and transactions and regulations so that we don't kill or maim what works, but we concentrate on the most effective way of moving forward with the brainpower and the financial power that exists here.

  Hillary Clinton

  Wall, Moving, Thinking

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I consider myself a realist who wants to stand up for women's voices, not when they try to be the same, but when they stand up for who we are and what we see and how important it is that our voice is heard.

  Liv Ullmann

  Voice, Important, Trying

  Source: www.themarysue.com

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• [ 'American Dream' ] probably will [go] somewhere in Europe. You get 3000 entries [to] Sundance, and how many movies get [screened]? So, I'm a realist. I'm very much realistic in terms of if this movie will be released in the States. Probably not.

  Janusz Kaminski

  Dream, Europe, States

  Source: screenrant.com

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• The great joke is that a realist is an optimistic pessimist. That's very witty. Whether it's truthful or not, that I don't know.

  John Hurt

  Witty, Optimistic, Truthful

  Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

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• You have to create the space for the possibility of people speaking as they do. If writing is supposed to lead us in any way or educate or suggest other ways of being, it can't do so by simply reflecting what's considered to be realistic. I'm not a realist in that way.

  Lynne Tillman

  Writing, Space, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I love musicals but it's very, very different. It's really just a different form than serious drama, and has very different rules and a completely different set of characters and requirements and ambitions. It maybe shouldn't be as separate as it is, but it's got a different history. In terms of serious drama, I think you'd have to say that you could break it down essentially into the narrative realist tradition and experimental theater.

  Tony Kushner

  Drama, Ambition, Character

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There is the specter of "realism" that is still haunting Chinese contemporary art - that art is only an instrument, an instrument to reflect society, that it must be useful for society. Also, I have noticed many Western media outlets are very insistent on understanding contemporary art in China through this kind of realist approach. Sometimes I even sense that they are intent on, as we say in China, "picking bones of politics out of an egg of art." Or perhaps they see art as merely an instrument to reflect society.

  Wang Jianwei

  Art, Understanding, Chinese

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I set many of my stories in a gritty "realist" world, but one that is plagued by an overuse of technology, which is akin to the world we find ourselves living in now.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Technology, Stories, World

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Ghetto, Imagination, Fiction

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• I think what's happening is, it's all - fantasy, science fiction, ghosts, trolls, whatever - finally being called, being admitted to be literature. The way it used to be, before the Realists and the bloody Modernists took over.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Thinking, Way, Fiction

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The kind of theater that I do is sort of ‘narrative realism,’ which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream. I mean, in a certain sense, Suzan-Lori's plays have had mainstream levels of success. But Suzan-Lori is in some ways not a narrative realist.

  Tony Kushner

  Mean, Thinking, Play

  "Tony Kushner: The full interview". Interview with John Moore, blogs.denverpost.com. January 31, 2010.

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• There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.

  Dean Koontz

  Evil, World, Paranoid

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• There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.

  Daniel Woodrell

  Sweet, Fiction, Crime

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• I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.

  Todd Gitlin

  Thinking, Trying, Limits

  "How to be radical?". The OpenDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.

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• Some who call themselves realists question whether the spread of democracy in the Middle East should be any concern of ours. But the realists in this case have lost contact with a fundamental reality: America has always been less secure when freedom is in retreat; America is always more secure when freedom is on the march.

  George W. Bush

  Reality, America, Democracy

  Remarks by the President at the United States Air Force Academy Graduation Ceremony, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 2, 2004.

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