Being Real Quotes - Page 19

• It's not enough just to be real; you have to try to make it interesting or entertaining.

  Owen Wilson

  Real, Interesting, Trying

  Interview with Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2016.

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• Do you have to feel something for it to be real or mean anything? Can you touch your dreams, taste your imagination.

  Tim Lebbon

  Dream, Real, Mean

  Tim Lebbon (2003). “Fears Unnamed”

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• What is essential to understand at this point is that until now there was no such thing as mind and matter, subject and object, form and substance. Those divisions are just dialectical inventions that came later...They are just ghosts, immortal gods of the modern mythos which appear to us to be real because we are within that mythos. But in reality they are just as much an artistic creation as the anthropomorphic gods they replaced.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Real, Mind, Essentials

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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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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• In being realistic we do not always have to be pessimistic. Christ never blinked his eyes at bad things. But he never became so obsessed with human evil that he lost faith in man.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Eye, Men, Worry

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• I didn't really enjoy modeling in Bombay. I floated through it in the hopes that I would get my ticket to the next big thing. There was no real joy that I got out of it, to be really honest.

  Freida Pinto

  Real, Joy, Next

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• I remember being really grateful that David Lynch had actually even thought of casting me, because I was a huge fan of his.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Grateful, Fans, Casting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A lot of music for me was about - I mean aside from the fun and challenge of writing and being really good friends with my bandmates - getting to perform.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Fun, Writing, Mean

  "Carrie Brownstein Talks Spells, Book, Sleater-Kinney". Interview with Amy Phillips, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2008.

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• I think sex is completely absurdly demonized in our culture. But in the end, however much sex you want to have, with however many people in how many ways, to be loved and to love is what human beings really want.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Sex, Love Is, Thinking

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I think that one of the things about music is it's supposed to be spontaneous, it's supposed to be real human beings bouncing off of each other whether its from the stage or to the audience, or jamming with friends.

  Tod Machover

  Real, Thinking, Spontaneous

  Source: bigthink.com

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• If the person or artist doesn't touch it, and if the camera stays relatively far away from it, it doesn't really have to be real.

  James Pearse Connelly

  Real, Artist, Cameras

  "What goes into designing The Biggest Loser's sets, stages, and chill rooms?". Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. June 27, 2016.

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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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