Realistic Quotes - Page 25

• Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present us with a kind of metaphorical look at some aspect of our lives.

  Laurie Foos

  Looks, Elements, Fairy Tale

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks...although the latter is much less realistic.

  Kenneth Lonergan

  New York, Empires, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• When we went to the moon and realized that the Soviet Union had no realistic plans of getting to the moon, then we stopped going to the moon.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moon, Unions, Plans

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• I disagree that we need to contemplate eliminating ourselves in order to move forward. Sure, I think a good dystopian story can serve to steer us on the right path toward a better world. But we also need stories that offer solutions to our problems that are realistic, and workable today.

  Annalee Newitz

  Moving, Thinking, Order

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I try to be realistic and pragmatic. I have a lot of hope for humanity as a species, but obviously as individuals we can be extremely flawed. We may have to go through some very terrible times in the near future, even if we ultimately survive as Homo sapiens.

  Annalee Newitz

  Humanity, Trying, May

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In a way, I think we all want to look to that journalistic voice as a kind of global omniscience, a big eye to correct for our own limited purview: "Here's a realistic accounting of the world in which we live."

  Karen Russell

  Eye, Thinking, Voice

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's once I discover the people inside that the story really gets going, and then the formal invention becomes less important. It's just the way in; it's the door; and then what's behind it is always some kind of people, which I think probably makes me more in the tradition of realistic fiction because that's usually what I'm interested in, the people.

  Jess Walter

  Thinking, Doors, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you have a dream, to make it happen, all you have to do is start with one video and take it one video at a time. It may seem a little daunting to go from registering your YouTube channel to making it a full-time career, but if that is an aspiration for you, it's 100% doable if you're authentic, if you're persistent, if you put your best foot forward, if you come at it with realistic and authentic aspirations and intentions. If you try, then it's possible.

  Tyler Oakley

  Dream, Careers, Feet

  Source: www.teenvogue.com

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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.

  Lynne Tillman

  Writing, Space, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I always thought realistic was a better way to explain things that were "dramedies" because life is like that. It's funny, it's dramatic and to me that's how I see it.

  Seth Rogen

  Life Is Like, Way, Dramatic

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Sure, there are many bad things that can happen. Yet you can be aware of them, and realistic about them, without being obsessed and consumed by them.

  Ralph Marston

  Obsessed, Happens, Consumed

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• I don't think I need too much help. I think my head's on pretty straight, and I'm pretty realistic about things. I'm very focused, so that certainly prevents me from going all over the place.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Thinking, Needs, Too Much

  Interview with Carlo Cavagna, www.aboutfilm.com. February 2004.

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• We kind of just got more mature and more realistic with what we're doing. We kinda said, "We quit our jobs and we quit college to do this, and we're going to be playing these songs every day just about, y'know, on a stage... so let's write songs that we're never gonna get sick of playing." Songs that aren't just gonna follow a trend of what's going on right now, y'know?

  Jordan Buckley

  Song, Jobs, Writing

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• We have to have a more realistic foreign policy and not a utopian one where we say, oh, we're going to spread freedom and democracy, and everybody in the Middle East is going to love us. They are not going to love us.

  Rand Paul

  Democracy, Middle East, Foreign Policy

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Be realistic: always wish the impossible.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wish, Impossible

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• Boys like romantic [fairy] tales; but babies like realistic tales - because they find them romantic...This proves that even nursery tales only echo an almost prenatal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Running, Baby, Wine

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• People always ask me, Do you ever think you'll wake up one morning and not be funny? That thought would never occur to me--it's an odd thought and not realistic. Because funny and me are not separate. We're one.

  Woody Allen

  Morning, Thinking, People

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• It's my opinion that if you're trying to tell a realistic story that centers around realistic characters, you can't help but touch on important issues. Those issues are what make us human.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Character, Issues, Trying

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• Humor is important. If you're going to tell any sort of realistic story, you're going to have to have humor in it, because people are funny. Clever people especially.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Clever, People, Important

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• In brief, worldbuilding is different than setting in my opinion. Setting is a room. A backdrop. It's scenery. But without good worldbuilding, you can't have realistic feeling scenery. You can't have cool, unique backdrops for your story.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Unique, Feelings, Rooms

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• Task triage is the habit of making a realistic assessment of what degree of perfection is required for a task at the point of accepting it, so one doesn't need to rely on one's habit of procrastinating to lower the bar.

  John Perry

  Assessment, Perfection, Degrees

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. October 4, 2012.

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• I want a better world, but also a realistic world. We can only create a better world by becoming realistic.

  Oliviero Toscani

  World, Want, Becoming

  Source: valuet.wordpress.com

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• It's not realistic to imagine that any poem will last forever. Our species won't last forever! We try to capture and preserve our impressions of reality because it's all going away: everything we think and remember, everything we've ever felt, everyone we love.

  James Arthur

  Reality, Thinking, Remembers Everything

  "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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• Optimism is a tonic. Pessimism is poison. Admittedly, every businessman must be realistic. He must gather facts, analyze them candidly and strive to draw logical conclusions, whether favorable or unfavorable. He must not engage in self-delusion. He must not view everything through rose-colored glasses. Granting this, the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation's destiny, by men willing to adventure to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.

  B. C. Forbes

  Adventure, Destiny, Men

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• Epcot Center also features pavilions built by various foreign nations, where you can experience an extremely realistic simulation of what life in these nations would be like if they consisted almost entirely of restaurants and souvenir stores.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, Epcot

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.60, Ballantine Books

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