Real Life Quotes - Page 35

• I'm an extremely private dude and all this is happening so damn quick. I really haven't had any time to rationalize it. But it's nothing that I'm going to let freak me out or take control of me or my thoughts or my real life.

  Heath Ledger

  Real, Freak, Damn

  The Times (London), July 1, 2000.

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• If I could act like This was my real life, And not some cage where I've been placed, Well then, I could tell you The truth like I used to And not be afraid of sounding fake.

  Conor Oberst

  Real, Fake, Cages

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• You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Real, Ifs And, Pursuit

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.40, Random House

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• In real life, as well as in experiments, people can come to believe things that never really happened.

  Elizabeth Loftus

  Real, Believe, People

  "Eyewitness Testimony". Book by Elizabeth Loftus, 1979.

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• Fashion is, perhaps by necessity, in a world of its own - one that only rarely overlaps with anything resembling real life. This fantasy and exoticism is part of its appeal, of course.

  Vince Aletti

  Fashion, Real, World

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• Look. All books are weird when you think about it.... It goes without saying that real life is also weird.

  Kelly Link

  Real, Book, Thinking

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• Real life ... it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed to see the big picture, only their small portion of it.

  Bentley Little

  Life, Real, World

  Bentley Little (2003). “The Policy”, Signet

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• Real life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn't always have time to do or say the right things.

  Bentley Little

  Life, Real, Fiction

  Bentley Little (2004). “The Resort”, p.300, Penguin

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• In real life, good people die all the time and a**holes can live long and happy lives. It's a crapshoot.

  Bentley Little

  Good Life, Real, Happy Life

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• Apparently we're now in a state where most ads are full of people looking at us in a way that would heat us up down to our toes if it happened in real life, and we don't think anything of it.

  Max Barry

  Real, Thinking, People

  "They Want You". Personal blog, maxbarry.com. October 16, 2005.

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• Real life is developed from within. Real living means that the soul expresses itself through all one's thoughts, words and actions. A person becomes fearless once he understands the nature of the imperishable soul.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Real, Mean, Fearless

  Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma (2014). “Awaken Children Vol. 8”, p.157, M A Center

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• I have so many other interests: Writing, acting, directing, real life, I need little pieces of it all to satisfy me. The thirst is deep and I am complicated.

  Traci Lords

  Real, Writing, Acting

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• Vegans and vegetarians are commonly baited by nonvegetarians with "what if" scenarios that typically have no relevance to or bearing on most people's real-life situations.

  Joanne Stepaniak

  Real, Vegetarianism, People

  Joanne Stepaniak (2000). “Being Vegan”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Any story worth telling relates to real life in some meaningful way. Scifi allows you to tell meaningful stories without seeming too preachy - it adds a metaphorical layer between the story and the real world. Scifi is dismissed as ungrounded fluff, but it's actually the opposite.

  Jane Espenson

  Meaningful, Real, Opposites

  "Caprica Producer Jane Espenson Redefines Racism in the BSG Universe". AMC interview, www.amc.com.

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• Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims the streets for ordinary people.

  Lyn Gardner

  Real, People, Theatre

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• What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Real, Mean, Years

  Scott Westerfeld (2014). “Afterworlds”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• 'Allen Gregory' came about because we wanted an animated show and we were just tossing around some ideas about me playing a 7-year-old. We thought that would be cool, because we couldn't do that in real life.

  Jonah Hill

  Real, Years, Ideas

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• I would do the baby voice and it's kind of like this character I made up. But in real life, I'm completely different. I'm very smart. I think a lot of people will assume I'm an airhead.

  Paris Hilton

  Baby, Real, Smart

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• My two boys were the same ages as the kids in the show. In real life or in between the breaks I was raising two kids off camera who were not unlike the two kids who were being paid to be my kids.

  Alan Thicke

  Real, Kids, Boys

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• The result is a picture that represents so much of what I want and rarely get from a movie - a couple of hours filled with characters who are as exciting as the people I know in real life.

  Gene Siskel

  Couple, Real, Character

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• The essence of capitalism is expressed in two of its basic features: a) profit maximization and b) market competition. In their abstract formulations none of them was supposed to have anything conspiratorial against the poor. But in real life they turn out to be the "killers" of the poor - by making rich the richer and poor the poorer.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Real, Essence, Two

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• I guess he wanted to see a little more sexual activity because in real life, in bed I think less is more and let the woman come to me. Frankly, I don't even need a woman there.

  Garry Shandling

  Real, Thinking, Bed

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• In real life, Keaton believes in God. But she also believes that the radio works because there are tiny people inside it.

  Woody Allen

  Real, Believe, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The NBA is fairy tale and real life mixed together.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Real, Nba, Together

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• I don't have very much interest in trends and fashions. I don't follow the fashion shows and stuff like that into my real life. But I'm very, very interested in how people put themselves together, how women and men announce themselves to the world, through what they put on their bodies. Whether we choose Birkenstocks or whether we choose Burberry - it all signifies something and it's really interesting to me.

  Meryl Streep

  Fashion, Real, Men

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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