I Quotes
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“In real life, I try to be honest but not overshare. There are people that turn every conversation into a therapy session and you want to start charging them.”
“In real life, I'm afraid of heights - and people who get moral convictions... Adolf Hitler in London.”
“In real life, I'm always in tracksuits, and I never wear makeup.”
“In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.”
“In real life, I'm not super-posh but if that's the stereotype, I really don't care. It could be worse.”
“In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.”
“In real life, I'm such a dorky, happy person. I express myself in three ways: I talk a lot, I write songs and I get tattoos.”
“In real life, I'm very shy, but people think I'm this angry, sexy kind of - god knows what they think! And there I am in front of them, nervous and blushing and stuttering and whatnot. So I'm definitely not the person you see in pictures.”
“In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.”
“In real life, it takes only one to make a quarrel.”
Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash
“In real life, Josh [Gad] is a different kind of lovable idiot. In real life, he's a much filthier idiot. He has a dirty sense of humor.”
“In real life, Keaton believes in God. But she also believes that the radio works because there are tiny people inside it.”
“In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.”
“In real life, my son had a little injury a couple of years ago where we had moved into a new house and he put his hand through a glass window and it cut him really badly. Thank god he had surgery and repaired everything, but I remember I felt frozen I was so scared, and then I realized I was holding my hand just because his hand was hurt.”
“In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year.”
“In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.”
“In real life, people are going by fast and it's hard to draw them from my eye alone in a split second.”
“In real life, people don't try to live dramatically, people try to live in a light way. People try to laugh.”
“In real life, people end up doing things because it's convenient and it works for them. You don't get up every day regretting what you're doing.”
“In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people are saying. I find that kind of speech fascinating but screenwriters never write dialogue like that because it doesn't look good on the page.”
“In real life, people in the most dire situations must cope through humor.”
“In real life, shouldn't a wedding be an awesome party you throw with your great pal, in the presence of a bunch of your other friends? A great day, for sure, but not the beginning and certainly not the end of your friendship with a person you can't wait to talk about gardening with the for the next forty years.”
Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)
“In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.”
Source: Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader
“In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.”
“In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.”
Source: Leadership
“In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.”
“In real life, things don't all end at the nice same place. To keep the story real, there has to be kind of a ragged edge at the end of a novel.”
“In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.”
“In real life, we do things out of character, constantly. A couple of days ago, my shoes were hurting, so I walked barefoot through New York. Someone who has known me my whole life would think that was so out of character. But I did it because of the circumstances.”
“In real life, we're not walking around waiting for something to happen. We live our lives, and then suddenly we fall in love with somebody, and it's a big mess because you have a wife already, and it's going to destroy your life. And, at the same time, it's beautiful. Often, in films, it's not like that.”
“In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.”
“In real life, when someone's partner calls them, they can tell from the first word their partner says what their mood is.”
“In real life, when you have an emotional experience, it's never just because of the thing that's been said. There's the backstory. It's like [Ernest] Hemingway's iceberg theory - the current emotional moment is the tip of the iceberg and all of the past is the seven-eighths of the iceberg that's underwater.”
“In real life, when you speak with each other you overlap each other, so you can't fake that. Like especially when you have no cut. In a regular film when you want people to overlap you cut it that way. It's mixing and editing.”
“In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind.”
“In real life, women dont enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles.”
“In real life, you can't get a job as an executive unless you have the educational background and the opportunity. Now the fact that you are not an executive is merely because of the social standing of life... Black people have a hard time getting anywhere. And those that do, are usually straight. In a ballroom, you can be anything you want.”
“In real life, you care about other people, but at the end of the day you're like, "I'm acting upon whatever it is that I want or need."”
“In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.”
“In real meditation you forget the body. You may be cut to pieces and not feel it at all. You feel such pleasure in it. You become so light. This perfect rest we will get in meditation.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.”
“In real science a hypothesis can never be proved true...A science which confines itself to correlating phenomena can never learn anything about the reality underlying the phenomena, while a science which goes further than this and introduces hypotheses about reality, can never acquire certain knowledge of a positive kind about reality; in whatever way we proceed, this is forever denied us.”
“In real self-giving we are inspired. Whether they acknowledge us or not is not important.”
“In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.”
“In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down.”
Source: The Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe
“In real war an officer may have only one chance at succeeding. Consider each problem.”
“In real-world Finance, they don't pay for elegance. They pay for power - predictive power.”
“In realism's earth, I don't belong to you; though in surrealism I will stay as a part of you.
But oh ! mysticism goes to a new conclusion of you and me as a single soul.
And now its a battlefield among all.”
“In reality, a gift is nothing more than the wrappings within which I have placed myself.”
“In reality, a river's basic shape... is not a line but a tree. A river is, in its essence, a thing that branches... Although it flows inward toward its trunk, in geological time it grew, and continues to grow, outward, like an organism, from its ocean outlet to its many headwaters. In the vernacular of a new science, it is fractal, its structure echoing itself on all scales, from river to stream to brook to creek to rivulet, branches too small to name and too many to count.”
Source: Nature's Chaos