Real World Quotes - Page 31

• I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children'shomes on back streets, and this real world was a world where orphans burned orphans.... I liked the other world in which almost everyone lived. The imaginary world.

  Norman Mailer

  Children, Real, War

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• Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerable, passionate and impulsive, starkly sexual and monstrously self-absorbed creatures--are, in fact, avid seekers of moral authenticity. They wish above all to achieve some realistic power over the real world in which they live while at the same time remaining true to their values and ideals.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Teacher, Real, Avid

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• The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context. In the unreal realm of the canals, as in a Swiftian Lilliput, the real world, with its contrivances, appears as a vast folly.

  Mary McCarthy

  Real, Venice, Essentials

  Mary McCarthy (1956). “Venice observed”

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• But in the intellectual world, there is room for all opposing forces: even that which never appears victorious in the real world continues to be effective as a dynamic force (in the intellectual world) and precisely the unfulfilled ideals prove to be the most invincible.

  Stefan Zweig

  Real, History, Intellectual

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• Making a film is like raising a child. You have to be there every step of the way, guide it, provide for it, and finally let it go into the real world and hope you have done a good job. If you don't absolutely love your film then you will loss interest in it and the movie will suffer.

  Nicholas Ozeki

  Jobs, Children, Real

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In the real world there's an after-effect of disappointment if you lose an argument. But if, to begin with, you're set up not to have this particular autonomy, then you're not disappointed.

  Jack Nicholson

  Disappointment, Real, World

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• Normal, day-to-day things inspire you to write. I try to travel and chill, and go out and enjoy the outdoors. That makes you see the real world. Not just in the studio or at concerts. I live it up as normal as I can.

  Prince Royce

  Real, Writing, Inspire

  Source: www.artistdirect.com

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• I don't feel beholden to follow the real world at all. The important thing is to know WHY things turned out the way they did. You need to understand the reasons for events, or at least be able to make reasonable guesses about them.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Real, Important, Able

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• We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.

  Philip Yancey

  Faith, Religious, Real

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud”, p.199, Harper Collins

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• I read that MTV's Real World got 40,000 applications. That's amazing, such an even number. You would have thought it would be 40,008.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Real, Humor

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• A lot of people feel like urban fantasy is a shortcut that gets you around world-building, because it's set "in the real world." But it doesn't really work that way, as I found out. You have to come up with just as consistent an internal cosmology and magic system as you would if you were writing high fantasy.

  Cassandra Clare

  Real, Writing, People

  "Author Interview: Cassandra Clare on City of Bones (Book One, The Mortal Instruments)". Interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith, cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com. March 8, 2008.

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• I didn't study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Real, Writing, School

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• Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it's going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Real, Writing, Thinking

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• I like to work in the real world, so I do a lot of searching or just simple looking. But I'm not above tweaking reality and making something up. I don't think there are any rules in art. It's not so much what you see as it is the significance you, the artist, see in it.

  Keith Carter

  Photography, Art, Real

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• A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, Imagination, Despair

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.163, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In the real world, it is hard to be taken seriously as a woman. Use your brain and be smart about your choices. There's nothing wrong with being a good girl - it's actually very attractive and sexy.

  Faith Hill

  Girl, Sexy, Smart

  "We Love Faith Hill". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. October 1, 2006.

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• When you're playing cards you can't constantly think about what the money costs you in the real world. You can't be constantly concerned about that if you want to be successful.

  Daniel Negreanu

  Real, Successful, Thinking

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• I just don't like to go out and deal with the real world. It's scary.

  David Spade

  Real, Scary, World

  "Swinging For the Fences With David Spade in The Benchwarmers". Interview With Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. April 3, 2006.

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• There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.

  Nikolai Lobachevsky

  Real, Math, Science

  "The Foundations of Geometry and the Non-Euclidean Plane". Book by George Edward Martin, 1975.

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• Being Doctor Who, I used to look at the clock and know at half past four we were going to stop rehearsing - and that was a sad moment for me because I wanted to stay in this beautiful, unreal world.

  Tom Baker

  Beautiful, Past, Doctors

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• The casting directors that were aware of 'The Real World' looked at me as a joke. It was so hard to get away from that.

  Jamie Chung

  Real, Directors, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes".

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• I am sure that there is a lot more going on in the objective real world than we can monitor with our five senses. I think dreams allow us to engage with the real world and monitor the way it is acting on us.

  Amy Hardie

  Dream, Real, Thinking

  "The Edge of Dreaming". Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts, www.pbs.org. August 24, 2010.

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• Welcome to the real world, she said to me.
  Condescendingly.
  Take a seat.
  Take your life.
  Plot it out in black and white.

  John Mayer

  Real, Black And White, Plot

  Song: No Such Thing

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• Never stop asking yourself whether you can do things better. Keep testing every aspect of your business to the nth degree, and challenge every one of your assumptions. The tougher you are on yourself now, the tougher your business will be out there in the real world.

  James Caan

  Real, Challenges, Degrees

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• The problem is that those of us sympathetic with the plight of indigenous people view them as quaint and colorful, but somehow reduced to margins of history as the real world [(our world)] moves on We will be known as an era in which we stood by and either actively endorsed or passively accepted the massive destruction of both biological and cultural diversity on the planet.

  Wade Davis

  Real, Moving, Our World

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