Being Real Quotes - Page 6

• 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

  Trying, Vote, Realistic

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

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• I used to look at horror movies as being really real and it would totally freak me out and give me nightmares. Now I watch and think, 'whoa how'd they do that?

  Evan Peters

  Real, Thinking, Giving

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

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• In life, what more can you ask for than to be real?

  Bruce Lee

  Real, Ballgame, Asks

  "The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee" by John Little, (p. 126), 1996.

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• I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.

  Octavia Spencer

  Real, People, Interviews

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• The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.

  E. P. Thompson

  Real, Balance, Nuclear

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• For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

  Uma Thurman

  Real, Writing, Heart

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• Whatever my life looks like, I want it to be real and big and full. I want when, if I get hit by a car, I want to know that I have deep and real friendships, people to visit me in the hospital.

  Jen Kirkman

  Real, Car, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Some people are drawn to meditation without knowing why. Their inner being realizes that they've totally fouled up their life so far, and now it's just going to drag them to the local meditation hall.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Knowing, People

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• Be real and unashamed. Even of your faults.

  Amy Bloom

  Real, Faults

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• People who complain often say things like, 'I'm not being negative, I'm just being realistic.' Really? How is it anymore 'realistic' to focus on and talk about things that discourage us and make us feel bad, than to focus on and talk about the POSITIVE aspects of life that make us feel GOOD? Both area equally REALISTIC, but which you choose to dwell on has a very different impact on the quality of YOUR life.

  Hal Elrod

  Thinking, Impact, People

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from May 04, 2011

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• We don't have to be perfect to be a blessing. We are asked only to be real, trusting in His perfection to cover our imperfection, knowing that one day we will finally be all that Christ saved us for and wants us to be.

  Gigi Graham

  Christian, Real, Blessing

  Gigi Graham Tchividjian (2000). “Weatherproof Your Heart”, Spire

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• I can disappear into things very easily. But with acting, you have to be in the moment, and it gives me this incredibly fulfilling emotion: being really present.

  Troy Garity

  Giving, Acting, Emotion

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is something very peculiar about this form of atheism: It tries to constantly remind us of God while maintaining He does not exist! How can you hate something that is not there? Why would you persistently prove to people the non-existence of a being really not there?

  Gerard Verschuuren

  Hate, People, Evil

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• For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sales. I think that happens with other kinds of disabilities and products and that is something that is being realized more and more.

  Richard Masur

  Thinking, Mcdonalds, Example

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• Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocracy

  Will Smith

  Realistic

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• The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.

  Charles Bent

  Prayer, Real, Desire

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• The first thing about a song is that it has to be real, be lived; it has to be emotional, and melancholic. I don't mean sad. Melancholy is sort of a comfort. Melancholy has a sort of beauty to it. This attracts me to every other form of art.

  Keren Ann

  Song, Art, Real

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• How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?

  Jaden Smith

  Real, Eye, Mirrors

  Twitter post from May 02, 2013

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• So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship, we will never feel the free wind blow.

  Sonia Johnson

  Real, Ignorance, Blow

  Sonia Johnson (1987). “Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation”, Crossing Pr

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• Shock is shock. Your body goes into shock, regardless of it being real blood or fake blood. The mind sends powerful messages to all the various glands and secretions in the body. It's impossible trying to act it; it just happens. It's a very important question: no acting.

  Ben Kingsley

  Powerful, Real, Blood

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• I don''t like this reality television, I have to be honest;I think real people should not be on television; It''s for special people like us, people who have trained and studied to appear to be real

  Garry Shandling

  Real, Thinking, Special People

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• Like an image in a dream the world is troubled by love, hatred, and other poisons. So long as the dream lasts, the image appears to be real; but on awaking it vanishes.

  Samuel Johnson

  Dream, Real, Long

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• You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friends, Real, Circumstances

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1872). “The Academic Questions: Treatise De Finibus and Tusculan Disputations of M. R. Cicero, with a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero”, p.163

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• I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Eerie, Polite

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't think that most women have to prove that they're real women. You live long enough, you graduate to being real.

  Charles Baxter

  Real, Thinking, Long

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.33, Vintage

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