Real Quotes

• The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Fit

• It's almost like being trapped in some other form. The real me is so different from the way I look on the outside.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Different
  • Real
  • Form

• Sometimes I don't want to go out and socialize; I just want to watch my favorite shows and comedians. But then I have to remember that it is important to participate in life if you want to portray real life on screen.

  

  Josh Peck
  • Real
  • Screen
  • Participate

• The pressure... It's not real unless you let it be real.

  

  Cat Zingano
  • Real
  • Pressure

• I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I've done in my life, Dollywood is one of the greatest dreams that I've ever had come true - I am so proud of that I can't even begin to tell you, Dollywood is real special to me.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Real
  • Dream
  • Special

• How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Morality
  • Helpless

• I really feel like we have drifted too far away from real America.

  

  Stephen Fincher
  • Real
  • America
  • Far Away

• The absolute truth is that the 'I' is perfect and complete; the real 'I' is spiritual and can therefor never be less than perfect; it can never have any lack, limitation, or disease.

  

  Charles F. Haanel
  • Perfect
  • Spiritual
  • Positivity

• Much of the real computer talent today is concentrated in the private sector.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Real
  • Today
  • Talent

• My music is so mine, it's hard to turn it over to someone else. I have to be really involved in the production. It's like someone else taking care of your kids - if they don't treat them well, you're going to be pissed off. I'm actually co-producing [Backwoods] with my guitar player of 20 years, Kent Wells. We make a good combination... I think we're going to have a real good record.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• Anyone who knows or cares anything about real country music will agree that George Jones is the voice of it.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Country
  • Real
  • Care

• I don't mind reminding people it's a movie, or that you're telling a story. Everybody knows this, but for some reason, we want to be real. I don't get it, I like the fakeness of my craft. I don't think the audience minds-they all know we're making a movie.

  

  Rutger Hauer
  • Mind
  • Reason
  • Audience

• So, you could often say things are terrible and that accounts for what happened, or things are really bright, and that accounts for what happened. Often, the real explanation for what happened is much more subtle and interesting and involves maybe small shocks or what a couple people did on a Wednesday morning that changed the arc of history.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • Real
  • Morning
  • Couple

• Johnny Depp's performance is quite remarkable. Sweeney's desire for revenge and the simmering anger and hurt that he feels carry the story forward, and Johnny finds the most remarkable variety within that narrow set of emotions. The intensity is at a boil all the time and he never drops it. It's real anger.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Desire
  • Hurt
  • Emotion

• Usually the kids are portrayed as very one-dimensional. Like these mindless animals that just have three things on their minds: getting laid, getting drunk, and driving real fast over Mulholland Drive.

  

  Molly Ringwald
  • Mind
  • Kids
  • Animal

• What's talked about is a dream, What's envisioned is exciting, What's planned become possible, What's scheduled is real.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Dream
  • Goal
  • Exciting

• I'm a bitter, sad, sour young man who makes a career out of hastling people with real careers.

  

  Steve Martin
  • People
  • Funny
  • Humor

• The best vacation is still a book, a renewable ticket to places real and imaginary.

  

  Charles McGrath
  • Book
  • Stills
  • Vacation

• You know how it always is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no real problem. It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Problem
  • Ideas
  • Generations

• I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it's simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Real

• Mr. Harinton was real. There were adults in the world who would actually make sacrifices for others - not just for their own families but for anyone who needed help. Nicholas had always had the impression that families looked after one another, and he had come to understand that, on rare ocassions, children would do the same... But this was different. What Mr. Harinton was doing certainly helped Nicolas - but it also simply felt right to Nicholas. It made him want to be exactly like Mr. Harinton himself.

  

  Trenton Lee Stewart
  • World
  • Different
  • Children

• if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Life
  • Eye
  • Easier

• One of my first memories of being a kid was, 'I want to have a real job when I grow up.' And to me that meant you wear a suit and a hat and carry a briefcase and go to your job.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Real
  • Kids
  • Memories

• As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life.

  

  Charles Baxter
  • Couple
  • Poet
  • Unhappy

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