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• When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to 'Cheers,' it was familiar in that it was family. It had a kind of realistic positiveness to it.

  Bruno Heller

  Cheer, Hard Times, Tvs

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• People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

  Kevin Harrington

  People

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• The New Look of Batman is more illustrative and realistic.

  Bob Kane

  Looks, New Look

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• I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Reality, Stuff, Kind

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• Well the Bombay film wasn't always like how it is now. It did have a local industry. There were realistic films made on local scenes. But it gradually changed over the years.

  Satyajit Ray

  Years, Bombay, Film

  Satyajit Ray (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”

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• A realistic recognition of the human condition is that it is corrupt beyond belief. What do you suppose would happen if the police all took a week off?

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Police, Humanity

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• Obviously there are not too many people who get a chance to play in the Olympics in their hometown. That would be something special, but going into the summer you have to be realistic with yourself, and health-wise and motivation-wise you have to be willing to do what it takes.

  Joe Sakic

  Summer, Wise, Motivation

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• We went from an era when rock 'n' roll meant wearing a bustier as a woman and these spandex things and guys trying to portray someone that wasn't realistic. We are trying to make it seem real... relate to our lives.

  Eddie Vedder

  Real, Rocks, Guy

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• The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.

  George C. Williams

  Views, Decision, Helping

  George C. Williams (2014). “The Pony Fish's Glow: And Other Clues To Plan And Purpose In Nature”, p.160, Basic Books

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• There aren't a lot of films about adolescents or quote-unquote coming-of-age films that are realistic nowadays.

  Shailene Woodley

  Age, Film, Coming Of Age

  "‘The Spectacular Now’ Star Shailene Woodley On First Sex, Teen Drinking and Why ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ Feels Like an Indie Film" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. January 21, 2013.

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• Self-discovery is realistic. It's not built on ideas and philosophies. It's what works. Philosophies are nice if you like philosophies. But self-discovery is predicated on something that really brings you into enlightened states of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Philosophy, Nice

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• Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.

  Criss Jami

  Exclamation Points, Doubt, Stories

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.98, Criss Jami

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• I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category. Science fiction is not a favorite genre of mine, though I have greatly enjoyed some of the work of Ursula LeGuin. I haven't read much science fiction so I don't know other sci-fi authors.

  Lois Lowry

  Couple, Book, Fall

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• But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.

  Frank Miller

  Being Real, Trying, Vote

  "Black and white and bloody" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2005.

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• The Wire' is very realistic and based on real events.

  Michael K. Williams

  Real, Wire, Events

  "Michael K Williams: my guide to being a Barack Obama-endorsed badass" by Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2012.

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• It seems to me quite disastrous that the idea should have got about that Christianity is an other-worldly, unreal, idealistic kind of religion that suggests that if we are good we shall be happy. On the contrary, it is fiercely and even harshly realistic, insisting that there are certain eternal achievements that make even happiness look like trash.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Should Have, Ideas, Achievement

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• The brave view is that talking it out helps work it out. Maybe the realistic view is that talking it out inflames the issues further. But that is America, especially these days.

  Jane Smiley

  Views, Talking, America

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• The goals for Virginia lacrosse don't change a lot from year to year. We look at the lineup, start every year on Sept. 1 with the realistic goal to play at the end of the season, the very last game. This team has the talent to be able to do that.

  Dom Starsia

  Team, Years, Games

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• My idea of a perfect surrealist painting is one in which every detail is perfectly realistic, yet filled with a surrealistic, dreamlike mood. And the viewer himself can't understand why that mood exists, because there are no dripping watches or grotesque shapes as reference points. That is what I'm after: that mood which is apart from everyday life, the type of mood that one experiences at very special moments.

  Ian Hornak

  Ideas, Perfect, Everyday

  The 57th Street Review, January 1976.

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• What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they develop space and shape in architecturalcontinuity - the rhythm across their paintings. When I paint a landscape, Iget the greatest pleasure out of composing it. As I paint, I try to work outa visual sonata form or a fugue, with realistic images.

  Ian Hornak

  Organization, Space, Work Out

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• If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it... The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it.

  Alexander Calder

  Real, Space, Imagine

  Interview with Katherine Kuh, 1962.

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• Common standards ensure that every child across the country is getting the best possible education, no matter where a child lives or what their background is. The common standards will provide an accessible roadmap for schools, teachers, parents and students, with clear and realistic goals.

  Roy Romer

  Country, Teacher, Children

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• People who complain often say things like, 'I'm not being negative, I'm just being realistic.' Really? How is it anymore 'realistic' to focus on and talk about things that discourage us and make us feel bad, than to focus on and talk about the POSITIVE aspects of life that make us feel GOOD? Both area equally REALISTIC, but which you choose to dwell on has a very different impact on the quality of YOUR life.

  Hal Elrod

  Thinking, Impact, People

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from May 04, 2011

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• To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in terms of money, is not acceptable because it is not realistic. I am thinking as I believe we must think if we wish to discuss the best uses of people, places, and things, and if we wish to give affection some standing in our thoughts.

  Wendell Berry

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth”, p.80, Counterpoint Press

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• Ultimately people don't watch shows because of how realistic they are. They watch them because of the same dramatic elements that have always made stories interesting. And fundamentally if those elements don't work, no amount of reality is going to be enough to keep people watching a show.

  Michael Loceff

  Reality, Interesting, People

  "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.

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