Realism Quotes - Page 5

• That'’s a way to increase the realism to the reader, if you want to get technical - you leave it [character] vague and you let the reader fill in the blanks with their imagination.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Character, Imagination, Want

  Source: movies.about.com

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• I'm into weird kind of, anything that resembles magical realism.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Kind, Magical Realism

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• Now that economic realism has finally arrived in India, the future lies in becoming a strong economic power. Dominance in the world will come only from how well a nation can cope with economic realism and towards that India must work, must find its own place under the sun.

  Mukesh Ambani

  Strong, Lying, India

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• You try to make characters you care about, and I think realism helps. Even though this is a high concept, the characters have got to be real.

  Ricky Gervais

  Real, Character, Thinking

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• Was I ignorant, then, when I was seventeen? I think not. I knew everything. A quarter-century's experience of life since then has added nothing to what I knew. The one difference is that at seventeen I had no 'realism'.

  Yukio Mishima

  Thinking, Differences, Ignorant

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• Even when I was on Curb Your Enthusiasm I wasn't this "over-the-top" crazy character. It was still kind of play it straight but it was funny because the situation was funny. That's kind of how I portrayed things and I like dramas; I like to be able to - because in dramas you can laugh and joke and still be serious, be real. I like the realism of them.

  Mekhi Phifer

  Crazy, Real, Drama

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought for a while that it was going to be the major movement. But people always drift back to realism. I guess there is a certain security in that.

  Brice Marden

  Drawing, People, Culture

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• I think that it's important to try to keep reality. I think that Gabriel Garcia Marquez speaks a lot about reality in his magical realism. So I don't think we have to be hyper-realistic. But we have to understand the pressures that undergird the lives of the characters within that novel.

  Walter Mosley

  Character, Reality, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.

  Jerry Saltz

  Dog, Art, War

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• I was under the influence of the early modern masters, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck and Hemingway, especially, when I was a kid. I reacted against writers like Barth and John Hawkes. I did not care for the post-modernist stuff; my allegiance was to realism.

  Robert Stone

  Kids, Stuff, Care

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism is merely a mask for depression's actual essence, which is an overwhelming estrangement from humanity. The more persuaded you are of your unique access to the rottenness, the more afraid you become of engaging with the world; and the less you engage with the world, the more perfidiously happy-faced the rest of humanity seems for continuing to engage with it.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Depression, Unique, Essence

  Jonathan Franzen (2007). “How to Be Alone: Essays”, p.87, Macmillan

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• The idea of foreign policy realism, I think, fits more neatly with President Trump. And with John McCain, the neoconservative label of let's make the world safe for democracy and we're going to topple every regime hasn't worked.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Ideas, President

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

  Rod Serling

  Eye, Degrees, May

  "Character: Narrator". "The Twilight Zone", TV Series (1959–1964). "The Long Morrow", www.imdb.com. 1964.

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• When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Black And White, Shade, Behavior

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• John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.

  Jerry Saltz

  Knowing, Ironic, Balance

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• I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

  Manuel Puig

  Believe, Reality, Analysis

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• Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

  Christopher Morley

  Order, Literature, Parades

  Christopher Morley “Kitty Foyle”

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• Experimental work provides the strongest evidence for scientific realism. This is not because we test hypotheses about entities. It is because entities that in principle cannot be 'observed' are manipulated to produce a new phenomena
  [sic] and to investigate other aspects of nature.

  Ian Hacking

  Science, Reality, Principles

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• One of the traditions of film acting is a sort of mumbled realism. Be minimal, and do less. 'Even less than that.'

  Danny Boyle

  Acting, Film, Tradition

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• When young people are too rigidly sequestered from [the world], their lively and romantic imaginations paint it to them as a paradise of which they have been beguiled; but when they are shown it properly, and in due time, they see it such as it really is, equally shared by pain and pleasure, hope and disappointment.

  Fanny Burney

  Pain, Disappointment, Reality

  Fanny Burney (2011). “Evelina: Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World”, p.22, The Floating Press

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• Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Lying, Reality, Firsts

  "Rule of Life", 1815.

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• I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

  William Hague

  Idealism And Realism, Foreign Policy, Idealism

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• I try to get a degree of realism in my music.

  Martin Gore

  Trying, Degrees

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• One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Melancholy, Deaf, Music Is

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• The only realism in art is of the imagination.

  William Carlos Williams

  Art, Imagination, Art Is

  William Carlos Williams (1971). “Imaginations”, p.15, New Directions Publishing

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