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• ...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Art, Real, Essence

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• Any realistic vision of change must be based on the notion of empowerment of people.

  Michael Manley

  Inspirational, Change, People

  Michael Manley (1991). “The poverty of nations: reflections on underdevelopment and the world economy”, Pluto Pr

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• My goal is to never lose. That may not be realistic, but I'm going to try.

  Jennie Finch

  Goal, Trying, May

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• The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.

  Arthur Miller

  Real, Feelings, Cost

  "Tv's custom-tailored 'salesman'" by Don Shewwy, www.nytimes.com. September 15, 1985.

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• Pretending that the world’s religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our world more dangerous. What we need on this furiously religious planet is a realistic view of where religious rivals clash and where they can cooperate.

  Stephen Prothero

  Religious, Ignorance, Our World

  Stephen Prothero (2010). “God Is Not One”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The key is to set realistic customer expectations, and then not to just meet them, but to exceed them - preferably in unexpected and helpful ways.

  Richard Branson

  Keys, Loyal Customers, Expectations

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• Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Life, I Hate You

  Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (1996). “The Perfect Way”, p.229, Motilal Banarsidass Publishe

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• Each time I visit such a classroom, where the teacher is more interested in creating a democratic community than in maintaining her position of authority, I’m convinced all over again that moving away from consequences and rewards isn’t just realistic - it’s the best way to help kids grow into good learners and good people.

  Alfie Kohn

  Teacher, Moving, Kids

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• Writing is not the lottery. New writers have to be realistic about what it takes to get published. But there is one similarity to the lottery: You have to play to win.

  Lori Perkins

  Writing, Winning, Play

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• The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  People, Groups, Cinema

  The CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 10, 2007.

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• Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.

  Brad Bird

  Real, Thinking, Names

  Interview with Andy Patrizio, www.ign.com. March 9, 2005.

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• Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential. And to do that, I insist you throw caution to the wind, ignore the pleas of parents, coaches, spouses, and bosses to be "realistic." Realistic people do not accomplish extraordinary things because the odds against success stymie them. The best performers ignore the odds. I will show you that instead of limiting themselves to what's probable, the best will pursue the heart-pounding, exciting, really big, difference-making dreams-so long as catching them might be possible.

  John Eliot

  Inspirational, Dream, Heart

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• I'm very practical and realistic.

  Debby Ryan

  Practicals

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• I'm always being realistic.

  Stefan Edberg

  Sports, Being Real

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• I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a little journey from one place to another, and it's usually from a realistic place, to a place in the imagination.

  Billy Collins

  Writing, Journey, Imagination

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• The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.

  George A. Romero

  Blood, The Waterfront, Beats

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• The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years.

  Edward T. Hall

  Thinking, Years, Long

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• To say that politics is not a part of sports is not being realistic. When I run, I am more than a runner. I am a diplomat, an ambassador for my country.

  Filbert Bayi

  Sports, Running, Country

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• I am in love with the idea of doing a movie in 3D. I think 3D would be great for the story I want to do, in a realistic, normal story, using 3D on the emotions in a kind of intimate story.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Thinking, Ideas, Cameras

  "Legendary Oscar-Winner Bernardo Bertolucci’s Career Celebrated at MoMA". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2011.

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• We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions.

  Jerry Brown

  Abuse, Cost, Ends

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• No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian, his true meannesses, his true imbecilities, to his friends, or even to his wife. Honest autobiography is therefore a contradiction in terms: the moment a man considers himself, even in petto, he tries to gild and fresco himself. Thus a man's wife, however realistic her view of him, always flatters him in the end, for the worst she sees in him is appreciably better, by the time she sees it, than what is actually there.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Character, Men

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.325, Vintage

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• Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales-because they find them romantic.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Baby, Children, Boys

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• I also used these realistic sounds in a psychological way. With The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, I used animal sounds - as you say, the coyote sound - so the sound of the animal became the main theme of the movie.

  Ennio Morricone

  Animal, Sound, Coyotes

  "Mozart of film music" by Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.

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• The less obvious hurdle is that of preparing parents emotionally and putting forward realistic images of parenthood and motherhood. There also needs to be some sort of acknowledgement that not everyone should parent - when parenting is a given, it's not fully considered or thought out, and it gives way too easily to parental ambivalence and unhappiness.

  Jessica Valenti

  Motherhood, Giving, Parent

  Jessica Valenti (2012). “Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth about Parenting and Happiness”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People think I write fantasy, but I don't; some things may be exaggerated or distorted in the same way that painters distort and alter things, but they're realistic figures. They're perfectly recognisable.

  Joe Orton

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "The Complete Plays".

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