Real Life Quotes - Page 16

• The desire to be liked is acceptable in real life but very problematic in fiction. Pleasantness is the enemy of good fiction. I try to write on the premise that no one is going to read my work. Because there's this terrible impulse to grovel before the reader, to make them like you, to write with the reader in mind in that way. It prevents you doing work that is ugly or upsetting or difficult. The temptation is to not be true to what you want to write and to be considerate or amusing instead. I'm always trying to fight against the impulse to make my readers like me.

  Katie Kitamura

  Real, Writing, Fighting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think that's true of real life - we don't ever know anyone completely. Secrets are very important to creating a narrative work that's believable. The characters come into that world with secrets, as happens to all of us. As honest as we try to be in our relationships, we can never completely know someone. From a narrative perspective it's very important and pleasing - you want to have those secrets there. The secret is an essential part of the creation of the novel.

  Jaume Cabre

  Real, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I would say the only one person I know of who kind of combines the elements that my father brought to the table in terms of affecting the public discourse would be Oliver Stone. His combination of academic brilliance and real life experience and just understanding people I think is what makes him such a great storyteller, but also he cares. He is interested. He meets somebody and he listens to them. He has some questions. He wants to know what they're about. And as a result I think his worldview is much more complex and whole and most of the other.

  John Buffalo Mailer

  Father, Real, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• My curling personality really had the killer instinct, compared to the real me. I kind of liken it to when a surgeon is going into the operating room and has to put his game face on. But in real life, he might be a charming guy to have a beer with. Everybody always told me that I had Maurice Richard eyes when I competed; that the intensity that was on my face was scary. But that was what I needed to bring when I stepped on the ice. And even to this day, when I get on the rink, that person comes out pretty quickly. My brain and body know that I'm going into battle.

  Colleen Jones

  Real, Eye, Beer

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I wouldn't advocate for a feminism that's buttoned-up and divorced of the messiness of our real lives. Your feelings are your feelings, but you're not going to litigate your feelings about my body. The feminist ethics that I signed up for were respect for my bodily autonomy, that my experience is my experience, and that I'm an expert in my own life.

  Melissa Gira Grant

  Real, Feminist, Feelings

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I know that I present very - they say that I present very, very calm and very, very smart, very articulate, elegant. Yeah. And I go, 'Brilliant teams of makeup and wardrobe happened to dress me and clothe me and put my face on and do my hair. And then these brilliant teams of writers give me words to speak. I just need to make sure that I have them all in this combination in my body, in my being, and then I get to do it on camera, in front of a brilliant team of camera workers who really know how to like me and make me sound good.' So I'm just really a dork in real life.

  Tamlyn Tomita

  Real, Smart, Team

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• I think comedy is so much easier to do on the page than it is in real life. When I'm writing, comedy is an easy way to win over the reader. You're automatically more disposed to keep reading, thinking maybe, "I'll get another laugh or two." I think it's a survival instinct in me. I mean, you don't want to lose these guys within five or ten pages. You want them to keep going. I think to some extent it's a desperate measure that I throw out there, because a novel isn't a complete waste of time if it made you laugh.

  Joshua Ferris

  Real, Reading, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Once I do something, I need to be obsessed - or maybe I don't need to be obsessed, but I get obsessed because that's just the way my brain works - but I need to pay a lot of attention to detail. Because everything counts to me once I do something, even if it's a movie that nobody cares about. That's why I need to choose very well what I want to do. But in real life, when I watch TV or whatever, I guess I'm not that obsessive guy, and I'm pretty boring.

  Rodrigo Cortes

  Real, Guy, Brain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As to the "traditional filler of twenty-first century realist fiction," maybe that is something I avoid. I don't relate to standard psychologizing in novels. I don't really believe that the backstory is the story you need. And I don't believe it's more like life to get it - the buildup of "character" through psychological and family history, the whole idea of "knowing what the character wants." People in real life so often do not know what they want. People trick themselves, lie to themselves, fool themselves. It's called survival, and self-mythology.

  Rachel Kushner

  Real, Lying, Believe

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I find it odd that, in real life people think I am funny but no one ever suspects that on the page! Personally, I think some of my work is a riot! I crack myself up, but I know that the poems seem so relentlessly dark.

  Lucie Brock-Broido

  Real, Dark, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• An awful lot of filmmaking and playmaking is taken over by marketers and publicists, who set about to tell people what to think. And people feel safer that way. But it's not safe, and the whole wonderful thing that cinema and filmmakers can contribute is to go into the not-safe land of real life.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Real, Taken, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In real life, I try to be honest but not overshare. There are people that turn every conversation into a therapy session and you want to start charging them.

  Hugh Dancy

  Real, People, Trying

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• As important as politics are to me, the life and the spirit of people's emotions are much more important. People live real lives where they love and grieve and feel pain and joy and that is a whole separate sphere. All that political stuff, I believe in it strongly, but not as strongly as I believe that at some point you or someone is going to need a song to sit with and comfort them in a hard time.

  John Darnielle

  Song, Pain, Real

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• In a dream world, I would love to be a master pastry chef, because it combines something I love doing baking with something I'm not good at doing baking. BUT! Practically, if I weren't writing and doing comedy things, I'd like to teach kids to read. I would be good at that in real life.

  Josh Gondelman

  Dream, Real, Writing

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• In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.

  Marina Abramovic

  Real, Self, Ordinary

  "Conversation: Marina Abramovic". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. April 8, 2011.

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• I don't know if I ever really get mad in real life.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Real, Mad, Knows

  Vogue magazine Interview, December 2008.

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• If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.

  Christian Bale

  Real, Acting, Jerk

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• There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely unbelievable things to really say, and you would look at these people like they're freaks for conversing that way. But somehow for certain styles of movies, it works, and it seems fine.

  Christian Bale

  Real, People, Style

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• My real life is funnier than anything on TV.

  Roseanne Barr

  Real, Tvs, Life Is

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• Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

  Walter Benjamin

  Life, Real, Advice

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith (2002). “Selected Writings: 1935-1938”, p.146, Harvard University Press

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• One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Real, Men, Voice

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• Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.

  Jeff Bridges

  Real, Character, Might Use

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• Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table, making sure everybody's socks match, the soccer gear is ready. I admire idealists, but they're usually enabled by someone who holds the tether on their balloon, who pays the bills and sweeps up after them.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Soccer, Art, Real

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• Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.

  Candace Bushnell

  Girl, Real, Book

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• The joke that I make is that there are instances on the TV series that happen to me, - except on Sex and the City they always make it better or worse than real life and I am actually saying that in a joking way.

  Candace Bushnell

  Sex, Real, Cities

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