Realistic Quotes - Page 8

• Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping

  Peggy Noonan

  Wisdom, Mean, Trying

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• I don't know what I was thinking when I was starting out. I was hoping I'd get paid to draw realistic pictures of hockey players. I still hold that hope alive.

  Barry Blitt

  Hockey, Player, Thinking

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Southern, Grotesque, Cases

  "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction" (1960)

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• I've always been someone that sets achievable short-term goals. I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible. So I've just always been someone that's sort of reassessed where I'm at, and set goals that are realistic. And luckily, I've had plenty of chances to recalibrate and adjust, and good fortune's come my way.

  Eric Bana

  Disappointment, Giving, Goal

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I am edgy, raw, offensive, vulgar, untruthful, but intelligent. My jokes are always realistic. I do not make fun of children or people who cannot fight back. That is my limitation.

  Vir Das

  Children, Fun, Fighting

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• I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic: it's exactly where we're going.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Thinking, Space, Elysium

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• I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Writing, Break

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• The magazine business is dying. It's a hard time for publishing. It does seem that everyone is much more opinionated now. I think there's probably more room for making opinionated illustrations. There was a time when Time magazine and Newsweek would have a realistic painted cover. A friend of mine used to do a lot of those paintings and he was told by the art director at one point, we are switching to photography. It seems that if someone saw a painting on a cover, it took a while to do, it must be old news. Photography became more immediate.

  Barry Blitt

  Photography, Art, Hard Times

  Source: wwd.com

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• People will like to say that 'Eastern Promises' is brutal, but the only reason they say that is because the scenes stick with them. They are realistic. They are in-your-face and you see the consequences. It's not a bunch of quick editing cuts.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Cutting, Editing, People

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• I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we're going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate that's not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives.

  Stephen Harper

  Country, Thinking, Would Be

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 29, 2009.

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• One of the capabilities, which seems to be the most difficult for aspiring leaders to maste is realistic optimism. It requires one to recognize that our experience of life is largely up to us, that our situations, good or bad, are largely due to our ability on a moment-to-moment basis to capitalize on opportunity. Those that approach life as if it is largely outside of their own control, or that others are largely to blame for their circumstances, generally find growth elusive.

  Justin Menkes

  Opportunity, Optimism, Leader

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I'm actually reading 'World War Z' again! It's incredibly realistic and it's written as an oral history through interviews with different characters. Max Brooks wrote this book in so many different voices. There are about forty or so. It's incredible. When I finish 'World War Z' I'm going to go back and start again on the 'Game of Thrones' series.

  Nathan Fillion

  War, Book, Reading

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• We have to be realistic. If we don't win, life will continue.

  Hayden Fry

  Winning, Ifs

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• Part of a horror movie has to be a bit fakey for me to really enjoy it. The new ones are so realistic that they distract me from the ride through the horror.

  Lynda Barry

  Horror, Enjoy, Bits

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• I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.

  Victoria Beckham

  Boundaries, Knows

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• No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

  Saul Bellow

  Cities, Chicago, Protection

  Saul Bellow (2008). “Humboldt's Gift”, Penguin Classics

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• Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk.

  Sergei Bubka

  Crazy, Risk, Needs

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• People clearly want to believe that the world is a just and fair place. It provides them a sense of control and makes them psychologically comfortable. But believing that the world is a just and fair place causes people to not do enough to take care of themselves and to be unprepared for when it isn't so nice. So, people need to understand their tendencies to see the world as just and fair and then be realistic about the actual conditions in which they find themselves.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Nice, Believe, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• If you think of dramaturgy in North America, which is so realistic and so literal sometimes, sometimes what theaters - especially dramaturgs - ask for is more information, which sometimes can really weigh down a play. There's only so much information a play can have. If you start putting in so much information, it becomes something completely different, it doesn't sing.

  Nilo Cruz

  Thinking, Different, Sometimes

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• I try not to do scenes a certain way, because then I become conscious of it, and it dosen't come off as realistic. I try to make it so that I'm not really aware of what I'm doing.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Trying, Way, Scene

  "Old News: Bringing it On Since 1898". Interview with Brendan Lemon, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2000.

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• How many girls, models or not, are secure about their bodies? I think I'm more realistic about what to expect of myself now. I also have a lot of other things than modeling going on in my life that I'm proud of.

  Cindy Crawford

  Girl, Thinking, Body

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• The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.

  Pierre Corneille

  Tragedy, Subjects

  "Héraclius". Play by Pierre Corneille, preface, 1646.

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• I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.

  Sean Connery

  Reality, Thinking, Chance

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

  Irving Babbitt

  Practice, Feelings, Democracy

  Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.154, Transaction Publishers

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• We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy?

  Edith Head

  Depressing, Musical, Today

  Edith Head, Paddy Calistro (1983). “Edith Head's Hollywood”, E P Dutton

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