Real Life Quotes - Page 16

• The truth is that we have to, as American citizens, stop thinking that this life that we're living, the things that we're dealing with, is some reality TV show. This is real life, real children, real situations.

  Stevie Wonder

  Children, Real, Thinking

  "This Hillary Clinton interview is my favorite of the entire 2016 election". "The Breakfast Club", www.washingtonpost.com. October 26, 2016.

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• The first thing we noticed was how flamboyant [Dalton] Trumbo was in real life.

  Jay Roach

  Real, Firsts, Flamboyant

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• In real life, I always look at people and how they walk, or how they carry themselves. I think about the body a lot, in performance.

  Molly Shannon

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I am really just writing about real life.

  Klayton

  Real, Writing

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• Playing a villain was fun, only because you get to do all the things you wouldn't normally do in your real life.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Fun, Real, Villain

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Real life is not like a movie. Even the best movies, the most rich, fleshed-out movies are not as rich and nuanced as detailed as real life or an actual human being.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Real, Life Is, Rich

  Source: www.grouchoreviews.com

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• I think Twitter is kind of boring, to be honest. To me, it's not even real life.

  Jen Kirkman

  Real, Thinking, Honest

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What's interesting about Topher [Grace] to me was, he's playing a 29-year-old virgin, which was really kind of hard for me to believe in real life, you get my drift? I mean, that was really not possible. And somehow he pulled it off.

  Diane Keaton

  Real, Believe, Mean

  Source: archive.azcentral.com

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• You definitely do not do films for that particular reason. You do them for yourself, for your satisfaction of creating this thing with characters and watching these characters take on real life - that's all you care about.

  Clint Eastwood

  Real, Character, Creating

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

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• When you realize the writers start writing to who you are, you're basically reading reviews of yourself. And then it becomes this cyclical nightmare where I feel like I need to play into it, then I find myself acting like the character in real life.

  Ben Feldman

  Real, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• [I watch] all that stuff - Game of Thrones and all the other series. How about House of Cards? As for Boardwalk Empire - that's another period of government overreach, but at least they use the amendment process! In real life, the executive branch, by violating the Constitution, is using statutes in place of constitutional amendments to diminish our liberty.

  Edward Snowden

  Real, Government, Games

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• I know what it's like to be so distracted by your surroundings and in the moment that it's seemingly impossible to not get caught up in 'em. I know what it's like to feel so much smaller than the activities of your environment that you can't see how not to succumb to 'em. I know what it's like to not be able to focus in class due to real life hunger pangs. I know what it's like to be disruptive just to pass the time and take your mind off what's lacking at home. I know what it's like to be laughed at by your teacher when you tell them what you hope to be in life.

  T.I.

  Teacher, Real, Home

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• The introduction of Harriet Tubman is going to be very exciting, she's a real life superhero so for us to be able to feature her this season is groundbreaking for a television series.

  Aldis Hodge

  Real, Superhero, Able

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• In real life, when you have an emotional experience, it's never just because of the thing that's been said. There's the backstory. It's like [Ernest] Hemingway's iceberg theory - the current emotional moment is the tip of the iceberg and all of the past is the seven-eighths of the iceberg that's underwater.

  George Saunders

  Real, Past, Emotional

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.

  Park Chan-wook

  Real, Violent Films, Because I Can

  "Shock horror! Park Chan-Wook is refreshingly normal". Interview with Andrea Hubert, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2009.

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• I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they're the invention of artistic people or directors, musicians. I think music and art and fashion designers inspire me and I like characters.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, Art, Real

  "WWD CEO Summit: Marc Jacobs". Interview with Jessica Iredale, wwd.com. January 9, 2013.

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• I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.

  Taylor Swift

  Real, Rebel, Feels

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• I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we're raised as little girls to think that we're a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Real, Princess

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• You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Real, Genuine, Existence

  Thomas Bernhard (2011). “Woodcutters”, p.41, Faber & Faber

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• The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the mortal danger, the external foe, the climactic battle whose outcome resolves all--all designed to appear heroic, to excite and gratify and audience. Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality--there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand?Here is the truth--actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.

  David Foster Wallace

  Real, Choices, Childhood

  "The Pale King". Book by David Foster Wallace, 2011.

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• That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Real, Unhappy, Trying

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books”, p.406, Xist Publishing

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• Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give is the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Real, Lying, Giving

  "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, March 27, 2007.

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• I walked over, my eyes scanning Luna Blu, my house, and Dave's. But it was the building behind them, that empty hotel, that had the tiniest light, provided by one word, written in fluorescent paint. Maybe it wasn't what was once there, in real life. But in this one, it said it all: STAY.

  Sarah Dessen

  Real, Eye, Light

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.220, Penguin

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• Real life doesn't have to suck.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Real

  Jennifer Crusie, Suzanne Brockmann, Emilie Rose, Rachel Lee, Beverly Barton (2010). “Blogger Bundle Volume VIII: SBTB's Harlequins That Hooked You: Anyone But You\Prince Joe\The Millionaire's Indecent Proposal\An Officer and a Gentleman\Keeping Annie Safe”, p.184, Harlequin

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• The queen was my favorite chess piece. Unlike the women I knew in real life, she was powerful. Her job was to defend her husband at all costs, because while he was weak and practically defenseless—only allowed to move one square at a time—she was the strongest player on the board, hindered by no restrictions at all.

  Rachel Vincent

  Jobs, Queens, Powerful

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Stray”, p.75, MIRA

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