I Quotes
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“In real life I'm not the character I play in my films. I'm reasonably competent, I work very hard, I'm disciplined, I lead a very middle class life. I work in the mornings, I have lunch, I practise my clarinet, I go to the movies, I eat out in restaurants or watch ball games on television or at the ball games.”
“In real life I'm not the one who's playing with guns or smoking.”
“In real life I'm obviously a lot more shy, but once I'm on set and in costume and I'm hidden behind the person I'm playing I feel quite free to experiment.”
“In real life I'm pretty easy going and pretty chill, I'm not the party girl who will go wild and crazy necessarily.”
“In real life I'm the type of girl who doesn't take herself too seriously. I'm very serious when it comes to work, but I like to make jokes and have a good laugh and make fun of myself.”
“In real life I'm very low-key. A wallflower. One of the reasons I went into comedy and acting was that I was sick of being shy.”
“In real life I've learned to love not wearing any makeup whatsoever, and I'm super low-maintenance when it comes to my hair.”
“In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer.”
Source: A Collection of Essays
“In real life, it is very important to be able to see a tiny difference between need for speed or just want to overtake.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“In real life, it's good Netiquette to limit yourself to a two drink maximum when social networking. NetworkEtiquette.net”
“In real life, love and hate are often only separable if we’re willing to recognize our demons and choose to become better people.”
Source: Kick
“In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.”
Source: Going Out
“In real life people do occasionally act out of character or do things we wouldn’t normally expect them to do. In fiction, there should be a good reason for a character to do something outside of the ordinary.”
Source: The Writer's Tune-up Manual: 35 Exercises That Will Scrape the Rust Off Your Writing
“In real life people fart, in the movies, people don't. Why not? Farts are a repressed minority. The mouth gets to say all kinds of things, but the other place is supposed to keep quiet. But maybe our lower colons have something interesting to say. Maybe we should listen to them. Farts are human, more human than a lot of people I know. I think we should bring them out of the water closet and into the parlor.”
“In real life, remember that X+y=0 represents the perfect balance between effort, energy, and the fulfillment of success and happiness. Keep pushing towards your goals and stay motivated”
“In real life sweet moments are short and dulled by time.”
Source: Figgs & Phantoms
“In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.”
“In real life, the political and strategic games used by politicians and statesmen are in fact social games - requiring social intelligence as well as technical mastery of information. The skills of the orator, cultivated by ancient statesmen like Cicero and Demosthenes, or by modern statesmen like Benjamin Disraeli and Abraham Lincoln, require emotional maturity and the talent of seeing events through the eyes of others. A great statesman sets aside his own egoism. He takes a more objective view. In this way, he avoids the errors that attend a purely egoistic standpoint. The explanation which Kierkegaard offered, which is none too flattering, is that people no longer desire a great king, a heroic liberator or an authoritative religion. They don’t want strict rules or high standards. That is because they want an easy time of it. They want a soft existence which can only be guaranteed by eschewing the great and heroic, the true and the noble. This is the moral perspective of high politics and of true statesmanship. Only those who reach this fifth stage can transform world calamity into world regeneration.”
“In real life, the truth is a rarity, while lies are common place.”
“In real life, the value capture process is sometimes deliberately managed by elites to manipulate and control others with game design-like tactics. Gig economy platforms like Uber and Lyft use "badges" and rating systems to manage the decision-making environment of their driver employees. Even outside of work, social media features such as likes, shares, and retweets play the role of points in games. Over time, these simple metrics threaten to distort or take the place of values (say, the wish to meaningfully contribute to discussion or to take pride in the quality of one's work) that might otherwise have inflected our behavior on these platforms.”
Source: Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics
“In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.”
“In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.”
“In real life there is no such person as the average man. There are only particular men, women and children, each with his or her inborn idiosyncrasies of mind and body, and all trying (or becoming compelled) to squeeze their biological diversities into the uniformity of some cultural mold.”
Source: Brave New World Revisited
“In real life there is no such person as the average man.”
“In real life these women experienced different sides of the same sexism coin. People who didn't like Hillary called her a ballbuster. People who didn't like Sarah called her Caribou Barbie. People attempted to marginalize these women based on their gender.”
“In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning points are only uncovered later, by historians who seek to bring order to a lifetime of tangled moments.”
Source: The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden
“In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.”
“In real life, when emotions and sentiments are involved and the very continuity of life is at stake, there are no quantitative theories, linear programming, and applied mechanics available to solve those problems.”
Source: Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
“In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.”
Source: Art & ardor: essays
“In real life, you eat the cinnamon toast, even if your heart is burning.”
Source: The Hired Girl
“In real life you get out of the shower naked, so why wouldn't you do it on screen? It's just a normal thing.”
“In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them.”
“In real life, as well as in experiments, people can come to believe things that never really happened.”
“In real life, bad things happen and they're not funny, and then bad things happen and they can be funny. When you're unhappy you don't go an entire time without laughing. You don't go your whole life without laughing. It's just life.”
“In real life, comedians aren't funny.”
“In real life, events seem much less dramatic.”
Source: Anchorwoman
“In real life, every field of science is incomplete, and most of them - whatever the record of accomplishment during the last 200 years - are still in their very earliest stages.”
“In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.”
“In real life, good people die all the time and a**holes can live long and happy lives. It's a crapshoot.”
“In real life, holidays are extremely stressful. They're the best of times and worst of times because you have got people trying to get along with people that you don't always get along with.”
“In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?”
Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
“In real life, I always look at people and how they walk, or how they carry themselves. I think about the body a lot, in performance.”
“In real life, I am alarmingly boring.”
“In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.”
“In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.”
“In real life, I don't fall in love with the guy who wines and dines me, I fall in love with the flaws and the humanity.”
“In real life, I don't fall in love with the guy who wines and dines me, I fall in love with the flaws and the humanity. When I see someone get embarrassed or when I see them wearing their heart on their sleeve, I want to see that in movies. I hate seeing the put-together people, and then it makes everyone think they're supposed to look like that. It's all a bunch of BS.”
“In real life, I knew that fandom was made up of women, and women of color, and women of all ages. But on the publishing side of comics, it was a lot of white, straight men. It was often jarring to me to be the only women at a meeting or at a panel at a comic-con. Fortunately I had mentors who were not blinded by my gender and who said, "Yes, we know you can write these books." That hasn't been the case for everyone. What gives me great hope is that in the eight to nine years since I've started, I've seen tremendous growth.”
“In real life, I myself am kind of a rambling guy. I like to travel.”
“In real life, I tend to yell at people a lot. Not because I'm bossy or mean, but because I'm frustrated.”