Being Real Quotes - Page 17

• I definitely write about a lot of dreamy, surreal stuff. I do end up going to a surreal world with my music, but I also like the idea of there being really real stuff as well.

  Ellie Goulding

  Real, Writing, Ideas

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• It's one thing having a great song, but I think for me if you take it to the next level... say you had a guitar and a vocal, and the song was amazing but the vocalist wasn't that great and it just was a guitar and vocal acoustic track, switching that to something like an amazing voice singing the exact same song with the instrumentation being really nice and lush or unique in some way and interesting and diverse... I think it's all about the instrumentation and textures in the sound.

  Flume

  Song, Nice, Unique

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• There is something about dance that is actually a great tension. There is something that is incredibly freeing about dancing for dancers who do it. They tend to be really arty and interesting people in real life. At the same time, they have an incredibly rigorous training schedule.

  George Nolfi

  Real, People, Dancing

  "Writer-Director George Nolfi Exclusive Interview THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 26, 2011.

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• There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Real, Opportunity, Men

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown -- but the present is real, and your opportunities are now. You must see these opportunities; they must be real for you. The catch is that they can't seem real if your mind is buried in past failures, if you keep reliving old mistakes, old guilts, old tragedies. Fight your way above the many inevitable Traumatizations of your ego, escape damnation by the past, and look to the opportunities of the present. I don't mean some vague moment in the present -- next week or next month, perhaps. I mean today, this minute.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Real, Mistake, Mean

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• The second thing: nobody has ever been able to drop the ego because ego is not a reality that you can drop; anything to be dropped at least has to be real, substantial. Ego is just a notion, an idea. You cannot drop it, you can only understand it. Can you drop your shadow? You can run as fast as you want but your shadow will run at the same speed, exactly the same speed.

  Rajneesh

  Running, Real, Ideas

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• Twenty seconds before a race, there's absolute focus. The key thing is to achieve relaxation, but at the same to have absolute total control. You've got to find the balance between being totally ready to go and being really at peace with yourself as well.

  Cathy Freeman

  Sports, Running, Peace

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• There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

  James Salter

  Dream, Real, Writing

  James Salter (2016). “The Art of Fiction”, p.64, University of Virginia Press

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• To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.

  Weegee

  Real, Pages, Photographer

  Weegee (1975). “Naked city”, Da Capo Pr

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• I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it's your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.

  Audre Lorde

  Jobs, Real, Believe

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• He doesn't want you to be real, and to think and to live. He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.

  E. M. Forster

  Real, Love You, Romantic Love

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• Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Rights, Would Be

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• I want to make a vending machine that sells vending machines. It'd have to be real big.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Real, Humor

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• We're all friends, inside the music and outside the music. I mean, we don't sound anything alike, we don't approach our music anything alike, but we come from the same genuine place. We want our music to be real and we don't want to compromise our art.

  Erykah Badu

  Art, Real, Mean

  Hip Online Interview, hiponline.com. January 22, 2001.

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• When you love, deeply love another human being, really deeply, somewhere you will feel that you are still alone, and this very beloved human being has no access.

  Irina Tweedie

  Deep Love, Beloved, Really Deep

  Source: www.goldensufi.org

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• You kind of gotta step back from your dreams and your passions once in a while, and kind of do something else for a minute so that you can come back to it with a fresh outlook, and be real inspired by something else, so you can give something back to your dreams and your passions.

  Tristan Prettyman

  Dream, Real, Passion

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• It's very unbalanced actually, to be real. Everything's like deserted.

  Ariana Grande

  Real, Unbalanced, Deserted

  "Prince Royce Talks Touring with Ariana Grande & the Growing 'Spanglish' Music Scene at iHeartRadio Music Fest". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. September 21, 2015.

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• You got to be real with yourself and not just let yourself pass on things that tend to become a bad habit. Make sure you stay on top of practicing well and preparing the way you always do.

  Champ Bailey

  Real, Way, Habit

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• But, my dear, I knew when I was a baby what I wanted to do, and I'll tell you, kiddo, if you don't do what your heart tells you, you'll never be real.

  Shirley Booth

  Baby, Real, Heart

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• I'm not perfect. But I'll always be real

  Tupac Shakur

  Real, Perfect, I'm Not Perfect

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• There are things in your life which you are in control of, and those you're not. You need to not care about those things which you're not in control of, and when you come to really understand that, you can go from being really upset about something to that lovely feeling of being a kid where everything is okay.

  Derren Brown

  Kids, Upset, Feelings

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• I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, "Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can." If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment.

  Michael Keaton

  Sports, Kids, Guy

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

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• Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocrity. What's the point of being realistic? It's unrealistic to walk into a room, flip a switch, and have light come on, but fortunately Edison didn't think so.

  Will Smith

  Thinking, Light, Mediocrity

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• I get mad at people who talk about traumatic job interviews, about going on one and getting rejected. I get rejected all the time and not only do I get rejected, but people have no problem being really specific about why I was rejected.

  Julia Sweeney

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.

  Raymond Chandler

  Real, Perfect, Trying

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.134, Univ of California Press

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