“At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like demons, suffer greatly, and are also happy, in unmistakable ways, some of the time. If we had no knowledge of happiness, our novels wouldn't sufficiently resemble real life. Some of us are even made a little bit happy, on occasion, by the writing process itself. I mean, really, if there wasn't some sort of enjoyment to be derived, would any of us keep doing it?” IfsWayWritingMeanLittlesMadeRealSufferingBitsProcessNovelRiskLittle BitReal LifeOccasionsEnjoymentDemonPeersVentureWriting Process Author:Michael Cunningham
“I don't know that I came across as being real competitive on 'The Bachelor,' although maybe I did a little bit on 'Dancing with the Stars.' I am a born competitor. The bigger the challenge the better!” KnowsLittlesRealStarsBitsBornChallengesLittle BitBiggerDancingBeing RealCompetitorsBachelorsDancing With The Stars Author:Jake Pavelka
“Being asked to describe what 'post-racial' means is a bit like being asked to describe a leprechaun, cold fusion or unicorns: we know what is meant, but, if we are willing to be honest, we also know that none of the four describe something real, something tangible, something true.” IfsKnowsMeanRealBitsFourHonestWillingColdPostsBeing HonestTangibleUnicornFusionSomething RealLeprechaun Author:Tim Wise
“Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat from human beings in real life; painting is more about the extreme moments when speech doesn't help anymore.” HumansLittlesRealMomentsHelpingBitsHuman BeingsPaintingPoetSpeechLittle BitExtremesReal LifeRetreatPain In Life Author:Francesco Clemente
“The real question is why are millions of people so unhappy, so bored, so unfulfilled, that they are willing to drink, snort, inject or inhale any substance that might blot out reality and give them a bit of temporary relief.” PeopleGivingRealRealityMightBitsMillionsWillingDrinkUnhappySubstanceBoredReliefTemporaryInhaleReal QuestionsSo BoredTemporary Relief Author:Ann Landers
“Life is so interesting... just every day life. I remember someone once saying: "Drama is real life with the boring bits taken out."” RealRememberLife IsBitsInterestingTakenDramaBoringReal LifeDay Life Author:Ricky Gervais
“Futurism is almost like a vaccination. You inject a little bit of a denatured pathogen to prepare your body in case you encounter it for real.” LittlesRealBodyBitsCasesLittle BitYour BodyEncountersVaccinationsFuturismPathogens Author:Jamais Cascio
“I'd say that any character or setting can be given a bit of an otherworldly sheen and be the better for it. The one thing I insist on with my own writing is that I won't let magic solve my characters' real world problems. The solutions have to come from the characters themselves.” WorldWritingRealCharacterProblemGivenBitsMy OwnMagicOne ThingSolutionsSolveSettingSettingsReal WorldWorld Problems Author:Charles de Lint
“The ones [comedies] that I always liked, whether it's Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, or Fast Times of Ridgemont High, they were all about two hours, or a little bit over two hours. With that extra 15 or 20 minutes, you can get to real character and you're not just stuck in plot.” LittlesTwoRealCharacterBitsTermHoursComedyMinutesLittle BitNewsStuckExtrasPlotEndearmentReal CharacterTerms Of EndearmentFast Times Author:Judd Apatow
“I would say natural is the best way to describe the real me. I'm not always going out or dressed up like I am on the red carpet. On a normal day, I wear normal clothes and wear little to no make-up. I'm always a bit girly, though.” WayLittlesRealBitsNaturalNormalClothesRedBest WayGoing OutCarpetRed CarpetDressed UpGirlyReal Me Author:Paris Hilton
“My first operating system project was to build a real-time system called RSX-11M that ran on Digital's PDP-11 16-bit series of minicomputers. ... a multitasking operating system that would run in 32 KB of memory with a hierarchical file system, application swapping, real-time scheduling, and a set of development utilities. The operating system and utilities were to run on the entire line of PDP-11 platforms, from the very small systems up through the PDP-11/70 which had memory-mapping hardware and supported up to 4 MB of memory.” FirstsRealRunningBitsLinesMemoriesDevelopmentProjectsSeriesRanDigitalApplicationPlatformsFilesUtilityHardwareMultitaskingOperating SystemsMappingSchedulingSwapping Author:Dave Cutler
“I'll never feel as comfortable singing as I do playing. The mandolin is my real voice. My actual voice is sort of my secondary voice, but I love to do it and I love giving people relief from playing with a little bit of singing.” PeopleGivingFeelsLittlesRealBitsVoiceComfortableLittle BitSingingRelief Author:Chris Thile
“I always want my shoes real clean. The front of my shoe is really like my personality, where off the court I'm kind of calm and kind of shy a little bit - low key. In the back, it's kind of crazy, just like me on the court. I love how both of my personalities are involved into the shoe.” WantKindLittlesRealBitsCrazyFrontsKeysPersonalityInvolvedLittle BitLowsCourtCleanShoesCalmLike MeShyLow Key Author:Derrick Rose
“Im a bit insane when it comes to doing my own stunts and getting down and dirty. Its fun, you know? Its things I wouldnt normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.” PeopleKnowsRealFunBitsMy OwnInterestingBeatsGunDown AndReal LifeInsaneDirty Author:Katee Sackhoff
“Sunglasses are a bit like watches for me - a real obsession. My favourites are Oakleys, Ray-Bans and Wileys, which are worn by the U.S. military.” RealBitsWatchesMilitaryObsessionRaysWornBansSunglassesRay Bans Author:Ross Kemp
“though humility and acknowledgement of one's real failings is good, the gratuitous eating of worms not put before us by God does not nourish our souls a bit - merely in fact upsets the spiritual tummy.” DoeRealSoulFactsSpiritualBitsFailingHumilityEatingUpsetWormsShortcomingsAcknowledgement Author:Evelyn Underhill
“Houses are the abiding joys; they are the most emotion-stirring of all things. An automobile is regarded with fond affection, a typewriter becomes the inseparable companion, clothes can stir sentimentality, and the bit of bric-a-brac is a toy one would weep to see torn away - but houses are real, deep, emotional things. How much excitement in the cutting of a window, what enormous importance in the angle of a roof!” RealJoyHouseBitsEmotionCuttingEmotionalClothesAll ThingsWindowImportanceAffectionEnormousExcitementCompanionToysRoofAngleTornAutomobileAbidingInseparableStirringTypewritersSentimentalityEmotional ThingsBricsDeep EmotionalReal Deep Author:Rose Wilder Lane
“I feel like we're all here on this planet, and intimacy is important. I can't bear small talk, it's awful. I want to get beyond that thing of discussing how the weather is a bit better today than it was yesterday, and how this is a nice restaurant. I want to get to what are the problems, what's really going on. Are you in love? Are you in a lot of pain? What's really going on in your life? I'm interested in that area, whether it's on stage or in real life.” WantLoveLifeFeelsI CanImportantRealProblemTodayPainBitsNiceStagePlanetsBearsAreasYesterdayReal LifeWeatherAwfulIntimacyRestaurantsLove LifeDiscussingSmall Talk Author:Simon Amstell
“When I'm filming I live out of a suitcase, so everything is thrown everywhere. In real life, I'm a bit tidier.” RealBitsReal LifeThrownSuitcases Author:Joanne Froggatt
“I remember kind of doing early acting and thinking, "God, they don't paint behind the sets." It's a bit of a shame, really - "Oh, what's on the other side of this wall? Oh, you can see the plywood." I was really disappointed. I just thought that these things were real, from watching things as a kid.” ThinkingKindRealKidsRememberBitsSidesActingBehindsWallShamePaintDisappointedThinking God Author:Andy Serkis
“I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.” WritingRealStoriesBitsRecordsReal LifeDialogueCollectors Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“The real problem with Donald Trump is, if you engage him, it will only make things worse. It's like - it's a little bit what you were taught as a kid to not engage the bully, because they will continue to pick on you.” IfsLittlesRealProblemKidsBitsTaughtTrumpLittle BitPicksBullyReal Problems Author:Amy Walter
“Programming today is the opposite of diamond mining. In diamond mining you dig up a lot of dirt to find a small bit of value. With programming you start with the value, the real intention, and bury it in a bunch of dirt.” RealTodayValuesBitsOppositesIntentionBunchProgrammingDiamondDirtMining Author:Charles Simonyi
“I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way that is not linear or chronological at all, even with the short story. I will just be writing bits and pieces, and then when I have all the pieces on the table, that for me is when it feels like the real work begins.” WayFeelsWritingFirstsRealStoriesTogetherBitsPiecesTablesShort StoryProtectiveLinearComing TogetherReal WorkBits And Pieces Author:Jill McCorkle
“...It's all sort of dreams and it's all illusion. It's theater; it's not real. We're making up stories, you know, and people tend to run into you and believe you are your characters. And I suppose the funny thing is the longer you go, you do become sort of some version of [your characters]. You both diverge from them - you know - you live, but you also permanently inhabit that geography and that mental space - and so you do morph a little bit. We do become what we imagine.” PeopleKnowsBelieveLittlesRealCharacterStoriesWisdomDreamRealityRunningBitsCommunitySpaceHistoryImagineGenerationsHuman NatureLittle BitIllusionTheaterIndividualityVersionsIdeologyGeographyFunny ThingsMaking Up Author:Bruce Springsteen
“What if tomorrow someone digs up definitive proof that Jesus had a real, earthly, biological father named Larry, and archeologists find Larry's tomb and do DNA samples and prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the virgin birth was just a bit of mythologizing the Gospel writers threw in to appeal to the followers of the Mithra and Dionysian religious cults that were hugely popular at the time of Jesus, whose gods had virgin births? Could you still be a Christian? Is the way of Jesus still the best possible way to live?” IfsWayStillsRealChristianFatherJesusBitsReligiousDoubtBirthTomorrowProveShadowProofAppealsWhat IfFollowersCultVirginsDnaTombsWay To LiveLarrySampleVirgin BirthBiological FathersReligious Cults Author:Rob Bell
“I never envisioned myself being a film star at all. Most people know that pro wrestling is a little bit of an accident for me. I never really had any real aspirations of being in front of a camera.” PeopleKnowsLittlesRealFilmStarsBitsFrontsLittle BitCamerasAccidentsAspirationWrestlingFilm StarsPro Wrestling Author:Roddy Piper
“London was a real dump in the 70s, when it belonged to me and my friends, because, like most cities, you kind of hand them off. You're in charge for a bit and then you don't go out anymore. You say, "Oh god, it's going to be too crowded."” KindRealHandsBitsCitiesMy FriendsLondonCrowdedDump Author:Nick Lowe
“For me, digital is just another avenue. It doesn't mean that it has to be poor quality or poor content. But, you still run into the same struggles. You can't have full-on language, violence or sexual situations. You can't run rampant with the fact that it's digital. You can't do anything you want. You still have a responsibility to tell a story first, and show what the character is going through first, and then maybe you have a little bit of lee-way to show a more real side of life.” WayWantFirstsMeanLittlesStillsRealCharacterFactsStoriesShowsRunningLanguageBitsSidesPoorQualityResponsibilitySituationStruggleViolenceLittle BitDigitalAvenuesPoor Quality Author:Milo Ventimiglia
“Most of us live our lives desperately trying to conceal the anguishing gap between our polished, aspirational, representational selves and our real, human, deeply flawed selves. Dunham lives hers in that gap, welcomes the rest of the world into it with boundless openheartedness, and writes about it with the kind of profound self-awareness and self-compassion that invite us to inhabit our own gaps and maybe even embrace them a little bit more, anguish over them a little bit less.” WorldWritingTryingHumansKindLittlesRealSelfBitsCompassionOur LivesAwarenessLittle BitSelf AwarenessEmbraceProfoundGapsInvitesAnguishFlawedBoundlessPolishedSelf CompassionReal Human Author:Maria Popova
“It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus.” ThinkingRealJesusBitsHumbleImitation Book:Stepping Heavenward Source: Stepping Heavenward
“As I have grown older I am more and more convinced that I have not grown up, that my powers have not come to me, not my real wisdom to do and achieve the right thoughts. I lack some dear grace. I cannot seem to steady down and get the single eye. There is a curriculum in living in which I have not studied. This may be happiness. I want to know it; I should feel better prepared for immortality. I do not wish to arrive fagged at last and a bit slipshod in the spirit, as if I had a hard time all my mortal life. It is not complimentary to God.” IfsKnowsWantFeelsShouldMayRealHardSeemsEyeLastsSpiritWishBitsGraceAchieveDown AndPreparedDearConvincedMortalsImmortalityHard TimesSteadyFeel BetterCurriculumReal WisdomSingle Eye Author:Corra May Harris
“I always loved horror as a kid. On the one hand, I really love monsters, because in a way I feel like I related to their outsider status and like the sentimental romantic plight of the monster. More importantly though I feel like people are completely motivated by fear, especially with our political system here in America which is just degenerating into more and more fear mongering and it gets in the way of real discourse, plus it's just something I'm obsessive about and have always been a little bit of a paranoid guy.” PeopleWayFeelsLittlesRealHandsKidsAmericaPoliticalGuyBitsHorrorLittle BitMonstersRelatedPlusMotivatedOutsidersDiscourseSentimentalObsessivePolitical SystemsParanoidPlightFear Mongering Author:Larry Fessenden
“I think everything needs to be played real, for reality's sake, for truth. And that is the drama and the comedy. When you do that, it's funnier. And when you do that, you really do hit the emotional beats. I do it the same way as I do a drama. I just play it for truth, and then maybe have a little bit of fun with it sometimes.” ThinkingWayNeedsLittlesRealSometimesPlayRealityFunBitsComedyEmotionalDramaLittle BitBeatsSake Author:Jennifer Lopez
“I had a very real fear of spiders until one bit me. I got bitten by a redback spider in Australia and I've never been frightened of them since. Maybe I've turned into Spider-man.” MenRealBitsAustraliaFrightenedSpidersSpider Man Author:Ray Winstone
“There is a real problem with the lack of diversity, specifically in genre films and the superheroes our kids grow up watching and emulating, they can't really identify with. When you see the same thing, over and over again, and it seems not to speak of you and your heritage and your culture, it leaves you out of this world, a little bit. It gives a certain social distance with your world.” WorldGivingLittlesRealProblemSeemsKidsFilmCertainCultureSpeakSocialGrowsBitsGrowing UpThis WorldDiversityLittle BitDistanceGenreHeritageSuperheroReal Problems Author:Djimon Hounsou
“At the end of the day, all you really have is your own sense of your artistic ability and I've always stuck with that my whole life. I guess there is always a bit of relief that I have and real joy of being able to engage other people who are talented, equally or better than you, and you can work with them.” PeopleRealEndsWholeAbleJoyBitsAbilityWhole LifeStuckArtisticReliefThe End Of The DayBetter Than YouReal JoyArtistic Ability Author:Sharlto Copley
“Even though I'm an actor, even though I know a little bit about film, I very much view things as an audience member. For me, whether it's TV, film, theater, whatever, it's a big movie, a small movie, whatever it is, I look for the truth in it. I look for the honesty. I just look for if it feels honest and real to me.” IfsKnowsFeelsLooksLittlesRealBigsFilmActorsBitsViewsAudienceHonestHonestyTvsMembersLittle BitTheaterBig Movie Author:Elisabeth Moss
“What I've found in working less is you start to get a bit more involved in the more real politics, which is local politics that affect what's going on in your own community.” RealFoundBitsCommunityInvolvedLocalsReal Politics Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“Sometimes I'm just a little bit too honest. There was some things that were going on behind the scenes that I didn't like because it's not what hip-hop is about. Hip-hop is about honesty and it's about being real to the people, and I kinda felt like there's some instances where some artists aren't 100% honest with the people. Their integrity is lacking sometimes. And sometimes it comes out.” PeopleLittlesRealSometimesArtistFeltBitsBehindsHonestHonestyIntegritySceneLittle BitHip HopInstanceHipsHopsBeing RealLackingBehind The Scenes Author:Wale