Real Talk Quotes

• It’s difficult to find a person who can accept the truth consistently and more when it is related to him only and that’s what keeps the difference between the real talk and the negative talk very marginal.

  Anuj

  Real, Differences, Negative

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• We are all affected by our pasts, but it is within our power not to let what we have done to dictate what we will do.

  P. C. Cast

  Past, Done, Affected

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2009). “Tempted: A House of Night Novel”, p.155, Macmillan

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• There is a deep power in words that speak the truth

  P. C. Cast

  Speak, Speak The Truth

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2009). “Tempted: A House of Night Novel”, p.155, Macmillan

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• Evil will win if good people do nothing.

  P. C. Cast

  Winning, People, Evil

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• Nobody is one block of harmony. We are all afraid of something, or feel limited in something. We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked to each other, not just pitter patter but real talk. We shouldn't be afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable too. It's so much easier to be together when we drop our masks.

  Liv Ullmann

  Friendship, Block, Real

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• I used to think it was corny to be in love but actually it's corny to lose an awesome woman! Real talk.

  Godfrey

  Real, Thinking, Corny

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• Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

  Sylvia Plath

  Life, Sad, Writing

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.85, Anchor

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• No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Reading, Book, Writing

  "The Figure a Poem Makes". Book by Ernest Hemingway, 1939.

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• When you make mistakes, whether they are from this life or another, learn from them- then they become opportunities

  P. C. Cast

  Mistake, Opportunity, This Life

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2009). “Tempted: A House of Night Novel”, p.155, Macmillan

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• Some people are the best lyricists, got the most gas, but they don't know have the personality or the people skills to go out there and network and get they recognition and they name out there. Sometimes people can get in the way of they own selves man, real talk.

  E-40

  Real, Men, Self

  Source: licensed2ill.wordpress.com

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• I like my lyrics to feel conversational and truthful, as if we're having real talk. I don't really like generic lyrics.

  Meredith Brooks

  Real, Truthful, Feels

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• Dialogue should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Real, Writing, Spontaneity

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• There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Writing, Story Writers, Three

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• No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

  Robert Frost

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Collected Poems (1939) "Figure a Poem Makes"

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• Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Life, Fall, Writing

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• I've been known to slum it and shop in the gag-him-and-bag-him aisles, believe it or not.

  Tammara Webber

  Believe, Bags, Shops

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• This idea of artistry, this idea of creativity... Ultimately, it has to be just real talk. We have to give a common way for people to access the world around them - even just words and terminology that we know are representative of the future.

  Eli Russell Linnetz

  Real, Creativity, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are too many coy books full of talking animals, whimsical children, and condescending adults. (Some of the most famous animals in the world have talked, but they talked real talk and they weren't called silly names like Doody and Mooloo. They were called names like The Cheshire Cat and they asked sensible questions like "Did you say pig, or fig?")

  Katharine Sergeant Angell White

  Children, Real, Silly

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• There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.

  Margaret Atwood

  Disappointment, Ducks, Office

  Margaret Atwood (2002). “Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing”, p.35, Cambridge University Press

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• Oh yeah, I'm literally walking through my house now looking down and there are maybe, like, 15 pairs on the floor. For real. Real talk. It's just simplicity. They're something I wear every day. Before I got a deal with them, I was wearing some type of Vans all the time. I would just order them by the box, like, 10 at a time.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Real, Order, Simplicity

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