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• I've known gay people - men and women - since I was a young person. To me it's just naturalistic and realistic to portray gay characters in a humanistic light. As a young man, I knew enough gay people as people not to fear them. On the other side of the coin, I like to irritate conservatives and homophobes.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Character, Gay, Men

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I can simply say that I feel spontaneously attracted by everything that is beautiful... It comes from the unconscious and not from my knowledge... Whatever is purely realistic, slice of life, which is average, quotidian, doesn't interest me... I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony.

  Leni Riefenstahl

  Beautiful, Strong, Average

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• It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming and energy consuming. It is easier to raise $10,000,000 than it is $1,000,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.

  Tim Ferriss

  Lonely, Ninety Nine, People

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• To contest an author's right to create a poetic or realistic work is to want to force him to change his temperament, challenge his originality, refuse to allow him to use the eye and the intelligence nature has given him.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Eye, Challenges, Use

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• However, if one has been playing the buy-and-hold game with quality securities, one has been exposed to a substantial amount of market risk because the valuations placed on these securities have implied overly rosy scenarios prone to popular revision in times of more realistic expectation. This is one of those times, but it is my feeling that the revisions have not been severe enough, the expectations not yet realistic enough. Hence, the world's best companies largely remain overpriced in the marketplace.

  Michael Burry

  Games, Expectations, Risk

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• For me, couture is the kingdom of imagination, creativity and experimentation, and this is how I approach it. I do, however, remain pragmatic and realistic.

  Giorgio Armani

  Creativity, Imagination, Kingdoms

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• When we are young, parents and teachers tell us we can do anything and become whatever we want. But as we grow older, these same people tell us we must be more realistic.

  Michael Hyatt

  Teacher, Young Parents, People

  Michael Hyatt (2012). “Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World”, p.36, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Real, Past, Thorough Understanding

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• A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us and it's also not that fun to watch.

  Dan Fogelman

  Daughter, Mother, Fun

  Source: collider.com

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• Each one is different. Each project is different. Some are silly, some are not. Some are more realistic, some are not. Some are overly dramatic, some are not. You've just got to try and find the thing that's most engaging and entertaining in whatever way, shape or form, and it's different every time.

  Colin Hanks

  Silly, Trying, Way

  "Colin Hanks and John Stalberg Talk HIGH SCHOOL, Stoner Comedies, Directing and Comparing Filmmaking to Parenthood". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. May 29, 2012.

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• I wouldn't play the normal girl. I don't think that that's interesting or realistic, as far as how human beings really are.

  Madeline Zima

  Girl, Thinking, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• All the genres are so blended nowadays. There are lots of comedies out there that are more realistic than dramas, and some dramas out there that are so broad and wacky that they don't even pass for a broad, wacky comedy.

  Madeline Zima

  Drama, Comedy, Broads

  Source: collider.com

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• A little-known company with a realistic framework that appeals to entrepreneurial employees is going to be more attractive than a famous company that treats its people like disposable assets.

  Reid Hoffman

  People, Littles, Entrepreneurial

  "Reid Hoffman: How To Manage Talent In The Networked Age". Interview with Josh Bersin, www.forbes.com. August 30, 2014.

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• Anybody who pretends to be objective isn't realistic.

  William Klein

  Objectives

  William Klein, Walker Art Center (1989). “Cinema outsider: the films of William Klein : a nationally touring retrospective”

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• I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination.

  Ralph Eugene Meatyard

  Imagination, Photograph, Abstract

  James Rhem, Ralph Eugene Meatyard (2002). “Ralph Eugene Meatyard : the family album of Lucybelle Crater and other figurative photographs”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• (Guy) Pearce, as the hero, makes the mistake of trying to give a good and realistic performance. (Jeremy) Irons at least knows what kind of movie he's in, and hams it up accordingly.

  Roger Ebert

  Mistake, Hero, Iron

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Your Movie Sucks”, p.300, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I couldn't roam wildly and speak secretly with villagers [in North Korea]. No way you could do that. And honestly, I didn't even try. I was realistic of what I could do and yet persuaded them into accepting numerous things that I shouldn't have filmed.

  Werner Herzog

  Korea, Trying, Way

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I don't think it's realistic for someone to have an undying loyalty to everything you ever make.

  FKA twigs

  Loyalty, Thinking

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I just want to take a realistic look now, now that we have enough distance.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Distance, Looks, Want

  "Paper Girls: Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang talk Volume 2". Interview With Nivea Serrao, ew.com. November 29, 2016.

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• The whole attitude of society has become much more open and realistic. They realize that the only way to make a more democratic and free society is to let different opinions come out.

  Ai Weiwei

  Attitude, Different, Way

  Interview with Claudine Ko, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

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• We have to be realistic about the brutal demands a money culture puts on the psyche, and there is a great cost to this in terms of creativity. Look at the state of people at 65. How many of them become creative after having to survive in the money culture?

  Michael Ventura

  Creativity, People, Creative

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Comic books are just a way to show a story. Then there are the movies, and television and exhibits like this that take the stories and make them seem so realistic. In the comic book, you're just reading a story - hopefully a good, exciting story that whets your appetite for all of this stuff to come.

  Stan Lee

  Reading, Book, Way

  Source: wwd.com

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• One of the keys is, and it may sound funny, talking about characters with super powers, but one of the keys is to make your characters as realistic and believable as possible. Even if they have super powers, you say to yourself, "Well, if somebody had a super power like this, what would his life be like? Wouldn't he still maybe have to go to the dentist or wouldn't he have to worry about making a living? What about his love life?" You've got to make characters that your reader can believe exists or might exist.

  Stan Lee

  Believe, Character, Love Life

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I remember when I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I thought Arthur Conan Doyle was one of the greatest writers, because I felt I knew Sherlock Holmes. He existed to me. When I went to England the first thing I did was go to Baker Street to look for his house. I think you've got to try to make all of your characters as empathetic and realistic as possible.

  Stan Lee

  Character, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.ign.com

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• We need to be realistic and recognize that there will be times when we won't be sharing our faith out of an overwhelming sense of joy. When that happens, that's a call to look at our own devotional lives. Are we putting our hearts and minds before the Lord and under his cross everyday? Do we remind ourselves continually that we have been ransomed by the death of the Saviour? When we meditate on Christ's death for us, it doesn't mean that we never have struggles in our obedience, but it does help.

  Mark Dever

  Struggle, Heart, Mean

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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