Real Quotes
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I want to be an artist artist, a real artist. I don't just want to do this for temporary money.
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We live with a distinct double standard about male and female aggression. Women's aggression isn't considered real. It isn't dangerous; it's only cute. Or it's always self-defense or otherwise inspired by a man. In the rare case where a woman is seen as genuinely responsible, she is branded a monster - an 'unnatural' woman.
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You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
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The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.
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I think there's not a lot of real filmmakers. There are only a few people who make real cinema. I can count them on my fingers.
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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
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I'd gotten the message in my home, starting with my grandfather, that real work, the kind that makes you sweat and gets your hands dirty, is a respectable, necessary thing. But I wanted to write - and writing didn't qualify. Whenever I told my parents I dreamed of becoming a writer, they said, 'Great, but what are you going to do for work?'
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It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.
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Real intimacy; real love has to do with a joining of the mind, a joining of the spirit, a joining of the heart.
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I definitely write about a lot of dreamy, surreal stuff. I do end up going to a surreal world with my music, but I also like the idea of there being really real stuff as well.
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There is a presumption made among nationalists that constitutional change is the answer to all the questions that are problematic in our communities, and my job is to talk about what is happening in the real world.
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Food makes travel so exceptional, because you get to taste what it's actually supposed to taste like. To eat the real Pad Thai or finally have a proper curry is something pretty amazing.
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The real me now may not be thin but she's got the cake and, if she likes, can eat it too.
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The only real solution is comprehensive immigration reform that secures our borders and provides a path to legal status for non-felons who are here without proper legal documentation.
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It's the job, I think, of leaders to try to address peoples' real legitimate concerns and channel them in the most constructive ways possible.
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... you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!
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The idea of the 'lone gamer' is really not true anymore. Up to 65 percent of gaming now is social, played either online or in the same room with people we know in real life.
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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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I'm very sensitive in real life. I cannot not cry if someone around me is crying. I will start to cry if someone is crying, even if it's not appropriate. I have that thing in me, a weakness or sensitivity.
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No one ever wrote a story yet without some real emotional drive behind it--and I have not that drive except where violations of the natural order ... defiances and evasions of time, space, and cosmic law ... are concerned.
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We were very radical on our entrance to the industry. People kind of shunned it, said it’s too much, he’s doing too much. I’m very charismatic. I’m very animated. I dance a lot. I praise God the way I do, and people weren’t really receiving that. They were looking at me - like, this ain’t real. He’s phony. He’s playing, or that’s too much…a little different from the conventional.
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A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something.
