Real Person Quotes

• That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

  Jim Morrison

  Famous Love, Being Yourself, True Friend

  "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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• In our relationships we need to uphold that aspect of the person which is the real person and the soul beyond their own self-doubt.

  Vilayat Inayat Khan

  Real, Caring, Self

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• An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Real, Men, Inspire

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• ... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in us through the intermediary of an image of that joy or that misfortune; the ingeniousness of the first novelist was in understanding that, in the apparatus of our emotions, since the image is the only essential element, the simplification which consists of purely and simply suppressing the factual characters is a definitive improvement.

  Marcel Proust

  Real, Character, Joy

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• The only real person you need to know is you.

  Alice Cooper

  Real, Needs, Adages

  Song: Living, Album: Pretties For You, 1969

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• When you play a real person, you feel a sense of responsibility that obviously you don't feel when you're playing a fictional character.

  Natalie Dormer

  Real, Character, Responsibility

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

  Caroline B. Cooney

  Real, Writing, Way

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• I feel like when you're a celebrity, people dehumanize you and they forget you're a real person.

  Big Sean

  Real, People, Forget You

  "Chris Brown 'Made A Mistake,' Big Sean says" by Alvin Blanco, www.mtv.com. March 23, 2011.

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• I wrote about Bosnia at the time. Somebody looked out their window and saw gangsters coming down the street and doing ethnic cleansing. I said that was the thing that would happen in the future, someone phoning in what they were seeing on the scene. Whether it's the Huffington Post, the Daily Beast, Drudge Report or the BBC, all those reports, you have to assume there's a real person [who] has credibility.

  Harold Evans

  Real, Cleansing, Bosnia

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, www.pbs.org. October 29, 2009.

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• Everyone brings their own perceptions when reading a book about a real person. At the end they will take away whatever they wish.

  Patricia Montandon

  Real, Book, Reading

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you." The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Atheist, Real, Fighting

  "Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 1999.

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• I guess when you see somebody in the hallway or on the field or something, it's nice to know that they are a real person.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Real, Nice, Fields

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Just stay real and stay a real person.

  Brandon Thomas

  Real, Persons

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• What you see is kinda what you get with me. I'm a very real person, or I hope to be, anyway. I don't have nothing to hide

  Kenny Chesney

  Real, Kenny, Persons

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• I've seen golems. They don't behave like a real person.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Real, Behave, Persons

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• I just feel as though it's become a situation where people have manifested this caricature of who I am, and they act as if there's no real person inside of it.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Real, Who I Am, People

  "Behind-the-Scenes with Lindsay Lohan". Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2009.

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• You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a version of themselves in order to protect the real person.

  Steve Carell

  Real, Order, Actors

  "Steve Carell Says Comedy Has Become 'Uber-Cynical,' 'Borderline Mean'" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 1, 2012.

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• I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people some help. AIDS, poverty, racism - I want to be one of the hands that helps stop all that. I'll put it on my shoulders. I'll charge it to my account.

  Jamie Foxx

  Real, Hands, Racism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

  Lady Gaga

  Real, Way, Living My Life

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• I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Spring, Real

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• When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.

  Damien Hirst

  Real, British Monarchy, Kind

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• I am a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing - I have a heart and a soul and want to touch people and give.

  LL Cool J

  Art, Real, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.

  Nicole Kidman

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?

  Hugh Laurie

  Hate, Real, Drama

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• I'm just a real person and I tell it like it is. I don't have a lot of secrets, which has been a fault of mine.

  NeNe Leakes

  Real, Secret, Faults

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