Realistic Quotes - Page 17

• Now, if you want to do realistic, kind of heavier acting stuff, you do it on Amazon or Netflix or whatever or HBO.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Hbo, Acting, Netflix

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn't a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn't be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Ambition, School, Law

  "Ruth Bader Ginsburg on becoming ‘Notorious’". "NewsHour Bookshelf" with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. October 10, 2016.

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• My work is known by too few people for me to be remembered as a writer - that is, beyond those dedicated souls (bless them) who have followed the oeuvre through its various stages. To be realistic, when they and the last of my friends have died, I doubt I shall be remembered at all.

  John Scott

  People, Soul, Doubt

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• But all categories of art, idealistic or realistic, surrealistic or constructivist (a new form of idealism) must satisfy a simple test (or they are in no sense works of art): they must persist as objects of contemplation.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Simple, Tests

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• When you're dealing with a symbol in a realistic play, it is also a realistic fact. You must expect the audience's mind to work on both levels, symbolically and realistically. But we're trained so much in pure, realistic theater that it's difficult for us to handle things on two levels at the same time.

  Edward Albee

  Play, Two, Mind

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.58, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In the thirties a whole school of criticism bogged down intellectually in those agitprop, social-realistic days. A play had to be progressive. A number of plays by playwrights who were thought very highly of then - they were very bad playwrights - were highly praised because their themes were intellectually and politically proper. This intellectual morass is very dangerous, it seems to me. A form of censorship.

  Edward Albee

  School, Play, Numbers

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.60, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• To put more American personnel in harm's way without a realistic chance for success is something I'm not in favor of. And a realistic chance for success depends upon having the Iraqis with the will and the ability to fulfill their share of the bargain, and so far they have not.

  Arlen Specter

  Way, Favors, Chance

  "Reaction to President Bush's speech". www.sfgate.com. January 24, 2007.

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• Revolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation - that is what makes it revolutionary - but at the same time it does not permit us to set ourselves fantastic aims - that is what makes it realistic.

  Leon Trotsky

  Trying, Doe, Revolutionary

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• The more realistic US policy becomes, the better.

  Mir-Hossein Mousavi

  Policy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think you just have to be realistic to what the reality is, the way people experience movies.

  Adam Wingard

  Reality, Thinking, People

  "Blair Witch director Adam Wingard on his most straightforward movie yet". Interview with Katie Rife, film.avclub.com. September 22, 2016.

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• My films are never about what Hong Kong is like, or anything approaching a realistic portrait, but what I think about Hong Kong and what I want it to be.

  Wong Kar-wai

  Thinking, Want, Hong Kong

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I live in New York now, and miss France quite a bit. Of course, the reality of living in a small village in the south of France was very different than the fantasy I had of living in France. Over the years I spent there, that fantasy was worn away and I found a more realistic version of France than the one I began with. I wouldn't say the spell ever goes away, but transforms. Now that I understand French culture more intimately, and speak fluent French, I have a different, more solid, relationship to the country.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Country, New York, Reality

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you find theater writing like in the theater on film but it's realistic, it doesn't matter who the character is, you want to do it.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Writing, Character, Want

  "Jake Gyllenhaal Interview, Nightcrawler". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. October, 2014.

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• People have to be realistic, or the dream just drags on.

  Adam Carolla

  Dream, People, Drag

  "‘How Dare You!’: Q&A with Adam Carolla". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2010.

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• As my family and I have worked through the grieving process, I've said all along ... that it may very well be that that process, by the time we get through, it, closes the window on mounting a realistic campaign for president that it might close.

  Joe Biden

  Grieving, President, Campaigns

  "Hillary's joy as Joe Biden opens her path to the White House saying he will not run against her". Article by Francesca Chambers, White House correspondent for dailymail.com, www.dailymail.co.uk. October 21, 2015.

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• I love a good cliffhanger. I love when big events happen in shows. I love shows that aren't afraid to take risks and to really do what's best for the story line and realistic for the story line.

  Candice Accola

  Risk, Events, Stories

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• Society must fight against this belief in God as it fought against idol worship and other narrow conceptions of religion. In this way man will try to stand on his feet. Being realistic, he will have to throw his faith aside and face all adversaries with courage and valour. That is exactly my state of mind.

  Bhagat Singh

  Fighting, Men, Idols

  Bhagat Singh, Bhupendra Hooja, Democratic Youth Federation of India (2007). “Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation”

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• If the characters [in a movie] aren't real, if their lives aren't realistic, if you call bullshit at any point in their journey, then the rest of it is invalid.

  Justin Simien

  Real, Character, Journey

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We're looking for a certain kind of realism or naturalism, and we go about it in different ways, but I think we're all striving for the same end result, which is to capture the patterns of conversations and how people interact in a very realistic way.

  Joe Swanberg

  Thinking, People, Different

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• I think my movies aren't sentimental. I think my movies are funny and sad and realistic. Not realistic in the sense that they're documentaries, but realistic in the sense that they're not idealistic, they're not optimistic, not pessimistic, and not propagandistic. They're an analysis of a situation. I call it as I see it, so to speak.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Optimistic, Thinking, Analysis

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Fiction doesn't appeal to me because it can describe physical appearances exhaustively or because it can offer access to the inner depths of an array of human characters - neither that kind of "realism" of bodily surfaces nor of individual psychologies seems particularly realistic to me.

  Ben Lerner

  Character, Psychology, Depth

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I set myself up for a lot of trouble by wanting to tell a story that is fairly earnest and emotional and expressive, but to do it in the most subtle, realistic way.

  Adrian Tomine

  Emotional, Stories, Way

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project's outcome; it is to determine whether a project's targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them.

  Steve McConnell

  Target, Purpose, Outcomes

  Steve McConnell (2006). “Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art”, p.54, Microsoft Press

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• Be realistic: Go for the impossible!

  Paulo Coelho

  Impossible

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• I liked being in the Marines. They gave me discipline I could live with. By the time I got out, I was able to cope with things on a more realistic level.

  Steve McQueen

  Marine, Discipline, Levels

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