Real Story Quotes

• The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Real, Imagination, Interesting

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• Our jobs as artists is to make sure our art tells a real story and let people see themselves in these characters. It's about having a conversation about being better people.

  Lil Rel Howery

  Art, Jobs, Real

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I want to play Martin Luther King. I want to tell the real story, his demons, his struggles as a man, not just as a hero but fallible, I want to show that side.

  Columbus Short

  Kings, Real, Struggle

  Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. December 2, 2009.

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• I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Real, People, Superhero

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. September 21, 2012.

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• And meteorologists have nothing to tell people in Philo, who know perfectly well that the real story is that to the west, between us and the Rockies, there is basically nothing tall, and that weird zephyrs and stirs joined breezes and gusts and thermals and downdrafts and whatever out over Nebraska and Kansas and moved like streams into rivers and jets at and military fronts that gathered like avalanches and roared in reverse down pioneer oxtrails, toward our own personal unsheltered asses.

  David Foster Wallace

  Military, Real, Rivers

  "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" by David Foster Wallace, www.nytimes.com. 1997.

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• Great historians can make the discovery of the real story more exciting than the romantic myth. Stacy Schiff, a great historian as well as a wonderful writer, peels away the layers to reveal the true Cleopatraa much more interesting woman than the Hollywood version and, as it turns out, a formidable queen after all.

  Evan Thomas

  Queens, Real, Discovery

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• The 'New Yorker' asked me to shoot a story on climate change in 2005, and I wound up going to Iceland to shoot a glacier. The real story wasn't the beautiful white top. It ended up being at the terminus of the glacier where it's dying.

  James Balog

  Beautiful, Real, Iceland

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• Skill sheets, workbooks, basal reader, flash cards are not enough. To convey meaning you need someone sharing the meaning and flavor of real stories with the student.

  Jim Trelease

  Real, Book, Skills

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• The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.

  Vanna Bonta

  Real, Character, Stories

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• I carry a strong anti-drug message, and it's important young people especially hear a "real" story about addiction and how it affects not only the addict but also the people who love him/her, rather than "just say no."

  Ellen Hopkins

  Strong, Real, People

  Source: ncac.org

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• The more people talk about eating disorders, the more people get the real story about what they're like.

  Scarlett Pomers

  Real, People, Eating Disorder

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• Forget politics. The real story is the advancements being made in medicine. We're on the verge of conquering cancer and Alzheimer's and numerous other diseases. The DNA revolution has just begun. Scientific advancement usually trumps politics.

  Douglas Brinkley

  Cancer, Real, Medicine

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Note to reporters: The sanctimony thing probably works better on someone who has never broken real stories.

  Colin Flaherty

  Real, Broken, Stories

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• When a song comes from a real story and from a real place I think it comes across to people. That's important.

  Negash Ali

  Song, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I used to hide it but after a lot of encouragement from my friends at university, I've gained the confidence to come out with it. I am the sun from Teletubbies. There has been quite a few people pretending to be 'the sun' but only I could tell you the real story. Everyone says they can see the likeness between my face now and me as a baby. I still have a baby face. I haven't changed much either. I am still giggly.

  Jess Smith

  Baby, Encouragement, Real

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• The real story in housing will be a recovery in the economy that will drive a recovery in housing, When people are working, when there are more jobs, more households forming and people go back to buying cars, they're going to want their apartments and homes. And that's when you'll start to see a recovery in home prices.

  Jamie Dimon

  Jobs, Real, Recovery

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• The gospel is unintelligible to most people today, especially in the West, because their own particular stories are remote from the story of creation, fall, redemption, and consummation that is narrated in the Bible. Our focus is introspective and narrow, confided to our own immediate knowledge, experience, and intuition. Trying desperately to get others, including God, to make us happy, we cannot seem to catch a glimpse of the real story that gives us a meaningful role.

  Michael Horton

  Meaningful, Real, Fall

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• Who I am in Christ is amazing. Who Christ is in me is the real story. It is beyond amazing.

  Bill Johnson

  Real, Who I Am, Stories

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• The harder part of doing a real story is that there are real people and you have a responsibility to not just go crazy with their lives and have them do things which are not their character, that they then have to live with.

  Scott Walker

  Crazy, Real, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• Just the idea that someone is married and they've got a kid, and he reports for work one morning and his boss says, "You're wife is a spy. Shoot her." In the real story, he just went back and did it, which would have been a short film. Therefore, I had to spend some time exploring what you would do.

  Steven Knight

  Morning, Real, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• It's cool to tell a real story.

  Miley Cyrus

  Real, Stories

  "The Radical Honesty of Miley Cyrus". Interview with Amanda Fitzsimons, www.elle.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Fitzcarraldo is that metonymic character that's unwilling to give up on his dreams. Meeting Walter was the point in which all of these dreams coalesced into a very real person with a very real story.

  Sam Pressman

  Dream, Giving Up, Real

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• Well, life is dark. We live in a very dark world. When they call them "dark films" it annoys me, because they're very real stories. They're stories I have seen or experienced or witnessed, and coming from that place, that is the hope of humanity.

  Charlize Theron

  Real, Dark, Humanity

  "Charlize Theron calls upon her shape-shifting powers once again". Interview with Rebecca Traister, www.elle.com. March 11, 2008.

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• I wanted to say what wasn't being said. I wanted to give people a real story. I wanted people to know people like me exist in the world.

  Nas

  Real, People, Giving

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Though tax records are generally looked upon as a nuisance, the day may come when historians will realize that tax records tell the real story behind civilized life. How people were taxed, who was taxed, and what was taxed tell more about a society than anything else. Tax habits could be to civilization what sex habits are to personality. They are basic clues to the way a society behaves.

  Charles Adams

  Sex, Real, Civilization

  Charles Adams (1993). “For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization”, p.21, Rowman & Littlefield

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