Realist Quotes
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I'm a realist.
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Eagles had made a realist of him. He believed in facts, and in altering your viewpoint to fit them, no matter what they were. That was the way you survived and stayed sane; it was hard, it meant sacrifices-he had already lost many things that he valued deeply-but it was the only way.
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The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should lay more stress on the external, tangible element than on the hidden motive.
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As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority.
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The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible.
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I'm a realist. And realists don't fool themselves.
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If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.
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Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.
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I realized that, when you're 18, your world is wide open. But as each year passes, one more nail goes into the coffin, killing you dreams and aspirations. And by the time you reach 25, you've been beaten down and become a realist. And my advice is you can't let these things get you down.
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I'm a realist about who really reads books and who acts like they read books.
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So-called 'realist' photography does not capture the 'what is.' Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example.
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I'm a realist about how the networks work.
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I think there's a joy to be had in taking readers where they just don't want to go. If you are writing a properly realist novel, then don't blink. Why not see something for what it is and render it truthfully? I find it a good way of going about writing - not to blink.
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The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.
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Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.
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I am content. While my shrewd fellows rode about the world to seek and to attain power and wisdom, I have elected, as and unpractical realist, to follow after beauty.
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I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.
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I learned you have to move fast, writing futuristic satire in America: Before you know it, you're a realist!
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I'm not coming in as an advocate of sports gambling. I'm trying to be more of a realist to say it's going on in a massive way... and I think the right course would be therefore to legalize it and regulate it.
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Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means—the only complete realist.
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The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
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I'm a realist, and so we have to take what exists and continue to struggle to move forward.
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I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I am realist.
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Some of the subject matters that I like to make stories about are definitely not inherently commercial. So I have to look for a very special kind of financing and go down a very gentle path in order to make my films, as do basically all social-realist filmmakers. It's a long process.
