Real Life Quotes - Page 12

• God is life; and in that life which is God there are no years. ... The human sense of life is not your real life.

  Joel S. Goldsmith

  Real, Years, Life Is

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• The whole point of marriage is to stop you getting anywhere near real life. You think it's a great struggle with the mystery of being. It's more like being smothered in warm cocoa. There's sex, but it's not what you think. Marvellous, for the first fortnight. Then every Wednesday. If there isn't a good late-night concert on the Third. Meanwhile you become a biological functionary. An agent of the great female womb, spawning away, dumping its goods in your lap for succour. Daddy, daddy, we're here, and we're expensive.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Sex, Real, Struggle

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• For a lot of geeks, gaming is all about stripping who you are completely and entering this imaginary space, this world that's made for you, where winning and losing have nothing to do with real life.

  Arthur Chu

  Real, Winning, Space

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Look at 4chan culture, which is the ultimate version of shedding your IRL [in real life] identity - you don't even keep a consistent screen name from thread to thread. That's very important to them, this belief in the possibility that what I do online is completely separate from who I really am.

  Arthur Chu

  Real, Names, Important

  "This “Jeopardy!” Champ and Proud Geek Gives Swirlies to Gamergaters in His Spare Time". Interview with Tasneem Raja, www.motherjones.com. November 11, 2014.

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• There is a double-standard between men and women. My father was a major league baseball player, and I grew up thinking I could have the same attitude on the field that he did. When I did that in real life, people thought I was a total bi-atch.

  Katie Uhlaender

  Baseball, Attitude, Father

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The great thing about television is that most things get resolved by the end of the episode. So I think a lot of people watch TV to see something of their real lives reflected on the screen, but also they're hoping for that happy ending.

  Kali Hawk

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If you look at television shows, which of course are fictional so you don't expect them to be real, but they're constantly showing career women who are also successful mothers and also look gorgeous. And we fall into believing that these fictional lives are somehow accurate depictions of what our real lives should be about.

  Debora Spar

  Mother, Real, Believe

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's not surprising that you wouldn't see that side of me on television, but in real life I find the world to be quite a funny place.

  Gwen Ifill

  Real, Television, World

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Real life is happening outside and not in front of a computer.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Real, Computer, Life Is

  "Interview with Opposition Leader Gabriel 'We Have Much to Thank Grass For'". Interview with Konstantin von Hammerstein and Christoph Hickmann, www.spiegel.de. April 16, 2012.

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• I throw dignity out the window, and just become a creature of the moment on the stage. I act like I'd never act in real life.

  Wayne White

  Real, Dignity, Window

  "That's what art really tries to do. Just strip away all the pretense and it's trying to entertain and excite". Interview with Julie Thomson, logger.believermag.com. October 9, 2013.

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• As people who make things, we have the ability to think of the most vile, awful things we can imagine, but it doesn't mean we believe those things. I allow myself to go places in my videos that I would never go in my real life.And I think that there has to be that place where you can create and not have to be living it in real life.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Real, Believe, Mean

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• Decorating is a footnote to real life for me, a means to an end: Living well.

  Charlotte Moss

  Real, Mean, Ends

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• It's been such a struggle to learn all that I have; I wouldn't want to give any of that knowledge up. That's why I've always loved acting; as a kid, I didn't necessarily like my real life, so I could escape into these other characters and experience a life completely different from my own.

  Drew Barrymore

  Real, Struggle, Character

  "Play Date with Drew". Interview with Carrie Fisher, www.glamour.com. February 28, 2007.

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• I try to show the children how every lesson I teach them is going to be something they use in their real life. That's why my kids work so hard, not because I'm so cool. They're working for themselves.

  Rafe Esquith

  Children, Real, Kids

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• No role is more challenging, rewarding and inspiring than my real-life role as a mom and a wife.

  Vera Farmiga

  Mom, Real, Wife

  "EMMYS Q&A: Vera Farmiga". Interview with Christy Grosz, deadline.com. June 22, 2013.

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• In all my songs, I take on roles and play characters. It's a unique way to explore ideas and decisions I might not think or make in real life.

  Jack White

  Song, Real, Character

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• If I had my life to live over again, I would have waxed less and listened more. ... I would have cried and laughed less while watching television ... and more while watching real life. ... But mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute of it ... look at it and really see it ... try it on ... live it ... exhaust it ... and never give the minute back until there was nothing left of it.

  Erma Bombeck

  Real, Giving, Trying

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• I don't want to live in real life. It's too harsh, too brutal.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Real, Want, Harsh

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• It is never, never too late, in a story or in real life, to correct.

  Nancy Thayer

  Real, Too Late, Stories

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• Films are dreams. Many, many critics say to me that my films are not good because they are too unbelievable, but this is my style. I tell stories like they are dreams. This is my imagination. For me, it would be impossible to do a film that is so precise, that resembles real life.

  Dario Argento

  Dream, Real, Imagination

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.

  Tom Stoppard

  Real, Biographies, Mesh

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• In a funny way, acting, to me, is all make-believe, even if the film has unicorns in it or is a normal movie that can be set in real-life time. I'm still imagining that I'm a different character, so it's all, in a funny way, like fantasy.

  Elle Fanning

  Real, Believe, Character

  "Elle Fanning Talks THE BOXTROLLS, Her Inspirations for the Voice, the Appeal of Fantasy, Future Projects, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. September 22, 2014.

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• This medium that we're working in - film and television - for an audience, it's like you live through these characters because it's things you can't do in real life. Places you're not prepared to go in real life as a decent human being, anyway. Because if you're a conscientious person, so you live kind of vicariously through these people.

  Christian Cooke

  Real, Character, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• When your characters are not white hats or black hats but something in between, you do have to be very careful about your details. So, that takes a while. I'm not interested in white hats and black hats. I don't think that's how people are in real life.

  Victor Levin

  Real, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in escapist fare. Having a good time is something that isn't about the war in Iraq or the Asian flu or the Kyoto protocol - things that are horribly depressing to consider in our real lives. I'm eager to get away from them.

  Eric Stoltz

  Depressing, Real, War

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