Real Life Quotes - Page 37

• I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for five minutes in real life.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Real, People, Hours

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.125, New Victoria Publishers

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• The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.

  Clarence Darrow

  Real, Doors, Office

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• We are but shadows: we are, not endowed with real life, and all that seems most real about us is but the thinnest substance of a dream,--till the heart be touched. That touch creates us--then we begin to be--thereby we are beings of reality and inheritors of eternity.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Dream, Real, Heart

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joel Myerson (2002). “Selected Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne”, p.80, Ohio State University Press

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• In 'real life' everything is diluted; in the novel everything is condensed.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Real, Novel

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. It turns problems into gifts, failures into successes, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. It can turn an existence into a real life, and disconnected situations into important and beneficial lessons. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Gratitude makes things right.

  Melody Beattie

  Gratitude, Mistake, Real

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• You could probably prove, by judicious use of logarithms and congruent triangles, that real life is a lot more like soap opera than most people will admit.

  Molly Ivins

  Real, People, Use

  Molly Ivins (1992). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, Vintage

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• Are my characters copies of people in real life? ... Don't ever believe the stories about authors putting people into novels. That idea is a kind of joke on both authors and readers. All the readers believe that authors do it. All the authors know that it can't be done.

  Ayn Rand

  Real, Believe, Character

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.249, Penguin

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• My Father taught me to weigh my words carefully, and speak up only when I had something insightful to add to the proceedings, or something really funny to say. He also taught me that if I couldn’t be that kind of guy in real life, that I could earn a healthy living pretending to be that guy in the movies – particularly when paired up with a long haired stoner.

  Kevin Smith

  Father, Real, Long

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• My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life.

  Mary McCarthy

  Real, Hazards, Helping

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• The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Real, Profound, Imagination

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• I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. Photography gladly accepts the challenge because it is at home in its element: namely, realism - real life - the now.

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, Real, Believe

  "Photography at the Crossroads". Essay by Berenice Abbott, 1951.

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• This [the movie Babe] is the way Americans want to think of pigs. Real-life 'Babes' see no sun in their limited lives, with no hay to lie on, no mud to roll in. The sows live in tiny cages, so narrow they can't even turn around. They live over metal grates, and their waste is pushed through slats beneath them and flushed into huge pits.

  Morley Safer

  Real, Lying, Food

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• I would start drinking something terrible if I were in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets. It's just not a real life.

  Angelina Jolie

  Real, Lying, Drinking

  "Angelina Jolie Gets Conservative in The Good Shepherd". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. December 18, 2006.

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• All I'm doing is being authentic and real and singing about the emotions I go through as a human being. I don't think we should be nervous about expressing who we really are when it comes to being a believer but also when it comes to being someone who goes through real life. You have to experience real life before you can understand what it means to really worship.

  Anthony Evans

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  "A conversation with recording artist and The Voice contestant Anthony Evans". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• When I play videogames I'm trying to go deep every pitch. I'm definitely not going to try to do that in real life. In the (video)game I'm trying to leave the yard.

  Dustin Pedroia

  Real, Games, Play

  Source: www.bayareasportsguy.com

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• I pretty much have made a career out of playing real life people.

  Hilary Swank

  Real, Careers, People

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.

  Aaron Belz

  Real, Writing, Confusing

  "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Art does the same things dreams do. We have a hunger for dreams and art fulfills that hunger. So much of real life is a disappointment. That's why we have art.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Dream, Art, Disappointment

  Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.16, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

  Ada Leverson

  Real, Literature, Unexpected

  Ada Leverson (1907). “The Twelfth Hour”

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• Does anyone suppose that, in real life, answers to any of the great questions that worry us today are going to come out of homogeneous settlements?

  Jane Jacobs

  Real, Cities, Worry

  Jane Jacobs (1961). “The Death and Life of American Cities”

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• The Troubles are a pigmentation in our lives here, a constant irritation that detracts from real life. But life has to do with something else as well, and it's the other things which are the more permanent and real.

  Brian Friel

  Real, Irritation, Trouble

  Brian Friel, Paul Delaney (2000). “Brian Friel in Conversation”, p.227, University of Michigan Press

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• No wonder all the great comedians had such destructive private lives. ... After you get the audience into that kind of frenzy, and you are being worshiped like the false idol you are, how do you leave the stage and transition back into real life? ... What is there left to do but set yourself on fire?

  Margaret Cho

  Real, Fire, Idols

  Margaret Cho (2007). “I'm the One That I Want”, p.85, Ballantine Books

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• More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

  Candice Millard

  Real, Pages, Life Is

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• Art's true purpose is to be human as opposed to some rarefied activity set away from real life. I think art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.

  Martin Firrell

  Art, Real, Thinking

  "The Question Mark Inside". Documentary, October 30, 2009.

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• Being in L.A. has definitely given me the opportunity to experience how my music sounds in real life because I can drive around and listen to the mixes, which I couldnt do in New York. I get to feel how a song works in combination with a sunset and a drive through the mountains.

  Dave Sitek

  Song, New York, Real

  "Track by track: Maximum Balloon - Dave Sitek" by Sam Richards, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2010.

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