Realistic Quotes - Page 20

• It is far easier to debate about realistic painting than to paint one.

  Igor Babailov

  Painting, Debate, Easier

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• There is no perfect love - that's something I'm very realistic about.

  Chaka Khan

  Perfect, Perfect Love

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The goals for Virginia lacrosse don't change a lot from year to year. We look at the lineup, start every year on Sept. 1 with the realistic goal to play at the end of the season, the very last game. This team has the talent to be able to do that.

  Dom Starsia

  Team, Years, Games

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• The brave view is that talking it out helps work it out. Maybe the realistic view is that talking it out inflames the issues further. But that is America, especially these days.

  Jane Smiley

  Views, Talking, America

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• It seems to me quite disastrous that the idea should have got about that Christianity is an other-worldly, unreal, idealistic kind of religion that suggests that if we are good we shall be happy. On the contrary, it is fiercely and even harshly realistic, insisting that there are certain eternal achievements that make even happiness look like trash.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Should Have, Ideas, Achievement

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• I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Reality, Stuff, Kind

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• The New Look of Batman is more illustrative and realistic.

  Bob Kane

  Looks, New Look

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• People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

  Kevin Harrington

  People

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• When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to 'Cheers,' it was familiar in that it was family. It had a kind of realistic positiveness to it.

  Bruno Heller

  Cheer, Hard Times, Tvs

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• Realizing your goal, resolution, or transformation is a journey. Change, like any meaningful endeavor, proceeds sequentially through steps. The journey begins with the contemplation stage of specifying realistic goals, getting ready, or getting psyched. The planning stage is all about prepping. How exactly will I do this thing? At some point you will jump from preparing and planning to perspiring, the work of implementing the new, desired behavior. Getting there is wonderful, but we need to keep you there, which entails persevering through slips and, finally, persisting over time.

  John C. Norcross

  Meaningful, Journey, Goal

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• I'm not good at comparing and contrasting. I take what's in front of me for what it is, although I guess there's something about Paul's realistic writing that is like Cassavetes.

  John Cassavetes

  Writing, Compare, Fronts

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• When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.

  David R. Brower

  People, Being Real, Trying

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• Money is a tool – it’s the means, not the end. Inspiration is the metric that dictates whether or not a project is a success. It’s more realistic than trying to aim for radio play, or trying to satisfy an AR, or the other gatekeepers on these platforms. I don’t even know how to create with those things in mind. But if you tell me the goal is to inspire? That makes my job a lot easier.

  Nipsey Hussle

  Jobs, Inspiration, Mean

  "Meet Nipsey Hussle, the rapper who wants you to pay $1,000 for his album" by Rob Boffard, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2015.

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• Well the Bombay film wasn't always like how it is now. It did have a local industry. There were realistic films made on local scenes. But it gradually changed over the years.

  Satyajit Ray

  Years, Bombay, Film

  Satyajit Ray (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”

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• A realistic recognition of the human condition is that it is corrupt beyond belief. What do you suppose would happen if the police all took a week off?

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Police, Humanity

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• Obviously there are not too many people who get a chance to play in the Olympics in their hometown. That would be something special, but going into the summer you have to be realistic with yourself, and health-wise and motivation-wise you have to be willing to do what it takes.

  Joe Sakic

  Summer, Wise, Motivation

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• The Wire' is very realistic and based on real events.

  Michael K. Williams

  Real, Wire, Events

  "Michael K Williams: my guide to being a Barack Obama-endorsed badass" by Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2012.

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• But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.

  Frank Miller

  Being Real, Trying, Vote

  "Black and white and bloody" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2005.

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• I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category. Science fiction is not a favorite genre of mine, though I have greatly enjoyed some of the work of Ursula LeGuin. I haven't read much science fiction so I don't know other sci-fi authors.

  Lois Lowry

  Couple, Book, Fall

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• Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.

  Criss Jami

  Exclamation Points, Doubt, Stories

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.98, Criss Jami

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• Self-discovery is realistic. It's not built on ideas and philosophies. It's what works. Philosophies are nice if you like philosophies. But self-discovery is predicated on something that really brings you into enlightened states of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Philosophy, Nice

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• There aren't a lot of films about adolescents or quote-unquote coming-of-age films that are realistic nowadays.

  Shailene Woodley

  Age, Film, Coming Of Age

  "‘The Spectacular Now’ Star Shailene Woodley On First Sex, Teen Drinking and Why ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ Feels Like an Indie Film" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. January 21, 2013.

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• The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.

  George C. Williams

  Views, Decision, Helping

  George C. Williams (2014). “The Pony Fish's Glow: And Other Clues To Plan And Purpose In Nature”, p.160, Basic Books

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• We went from an era when rock 'n' roll meant wearing a bustier as a woman and these spandex things and guys trying to portray someone that wasn't realistic. We are trying to make it seem real... relate to our lives.

  Eddie Vedder

  Real, Rocks, Guy

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• For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Honesty, Years, Fiction

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