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“The research period of a film is the most exciting part of the process, and filming is sometimes a letdown because when you're dealing with biopic material, the real thing is always much more intricate than the story told in the film.”

Real Sometimes Stories Film Process Materials Periods Research Exciting Real Things Intricate Letdowns

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making the best decisions you can on behalf of your people. It’s a slow process. It often feels hopeless, more like an affliction than an art form. Most of us will have to find our readers one by one, in other words, and against considerable resistance. If anything qualifies us as heroic, it’s that private perpetual struggle. Put down the magazine, soldier. Forget about the other guy. Remember who you are.”

“The thought processes that go through my head when I'm playing a game compared to the thought processes in real life are very, very different. And they're more interesting to me than what you think about when you're doing the dishes, cleaning the yard, watching TV, driving or watching a movie.”

Thinking Different Real Games Process Interesting Tvs Driving Real Life Dishes Yards Cleaning Thought Process Watching Tv

Author:John Romero

“I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it, is 95 percent intuitive, like seat-of-the-pants, at-the-moment decisions that you can't even explain, you know?”

Thinking Knows Real Moments Process Decision Percent Understood Artistic Seats Pants Intuitive Artistic Process

Author:George Saunders

“Taxes will eventually become a voluntary process, with the possible exception of real estate - the one physical thing that does not move easily and has computable value. The US has a jump-start on the practice, in that 65 percent of local school funds come from real estate taxes - a practice Europeans consider odd and ill advised. But wait until that's all there is left to tax, when the rest of the things we buy and sell come from everywhere, anywhere, and nowhere.”

Doe Real Moving Values Left Waiting Process Business Taxes Sells Finance Exception Estates Physical Things

Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“Psychic development is a necessary skill in leading a successful and happy life. Your intellectual processes and your senses don't give you enough information to distinguish the real from the unreal.”

Giving Real Enough Process Successful Seeing Information Development Skills Intellectual Senses Happy Life Hinduism Psychics Unreal

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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?”

Ifs Way Writing Mean Littles Made Real Suffering Bits Process Novel Risk Little Bit Real Life Occasions Enjoyment Demon Peers Venture Writing Process

Author:Michael Cunningham

“There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.”

Real Political Social Process Class Working Class Differentiation

Book:Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

“We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art... Consciousness is forever interfering, helping, correcting, and negating, never leaving the single growth of the psychic processes in peace.”

Art Real Helping Happens Able Process Growth Imagination Consciousness Forever Leaving Things Happen Interfere Psychics Correcting

Author:Carl Jung

“The process of quitting smoking doesn't end with the last cigarette. It's not quitting itself, the real key is staying quit”

Real Ends Lasts Process Keys Encouragement Quitting Smoking Staying Cigarette Quit Smoking

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“The more I drive myself into the depth of my inside, the more things come up to my vision, visibly or invisibly... I even do not know if I am seeing them with my eye or with my mind. I just need to copy them on my canvases. But this mental process is always overwhelming. I often have hard time to deal with my emotion on this state. You could call this depression on surface? But actually, so many 're-birth' and 'reform' are going on on my thoughts, inspiration, philosophy...etc in the underwater. I believe this struggle make my art real. My art always comes from my emotion.”

“I believe that the major operating ethic in American society right now, the most universal want and need is to be on TV. I've been on TV. I could be on TV all the time if I wanted to. But most people will never get on TV. It has to be a real breakthrough for them. And trouble is, people will do almost anything to get on it. You know, confess to crimes they haven't committed. You don't exist unless you're on TV. Yeah, it's a validation process.”

Source: Ancient Gonzo Wisdom

“Sometimes writers or writer-directors can get nuts about words, but you know and I know that it's the thought process behind the words that motivates the words, that conveys real communication and meaning.”

Knows Real Sometimes Process Behinds Communication Directors Nuts Thought Process

Author:John Kapelos

“So, I would appeal to my fellow Americans by saying, the only real road to progress for free people is through the process of law and that is the road that America will travel.”

People Real America Law Process Progress Fellows Appeals

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Happiness has to be installed in each person as a state of affairs completely cut off from the process that brought it about and, in particular, from the real situation. Man has to be affected with happiness. It is a tonality given to him. Contradiction: if one does take care to give him happiness, it is because he is a free creature--but in order to give it to him, one turns him into an object.”

Ifs Men Giving Persons Doe Real States Care Order Turns Given Process Situation Cutting Objects Particular Creatures Affair Take Care Contradiction Affected

Book:Notebooks for an Ethics

Source: Notebooks for an Ethics

“Most people view the artistic process as something of a mystery. Leverage that, and engage your prospective clients with good stories. For many, buying art is their escape from the real world. Make it entertaining and enjoyable.”

People World Art Real Stories Process Views Mystery Art Is Artistic Buying Real World Entertaining Clients Enjoyable Good Story Artistic Process Buying Art

Author:Cory Trepanier

“Grief is real because loss is real. Each grief has its own imprint, as distinctive and as unique as the person we lost. The pain of loss is so intense, so heartbreaking, because in loving we deeply connect with another human being, and grief is the reflection of the connection that has been lost. We think we want to avoid the grief, but really it is the pain of the loss we want to avoid. Grief is the healing process that ultimately brings us comfort in our pain.”

“My favorite process is writing, from day one. The songs I have written throughout the years were a real great opportunity for me to communicate, because I think tha'ts my prime objective on this planet.”

Thinking Writing Years Real Song Opportunity Process Written Planets My Favorite Communicate Objectives Prime Great Opportunity

Author:Gloria Estefan

“The main object of the work was to present such a survey of the advances already made in physical knowledge, and of the mode in which they have been made, as might serve as a real and firm basis for our speculations concerning the progress of human knowledge, and the processes by which sciences are formed.”

Humans Has Beens Made Real Might Process Progress Objects Bases Firm Speculation Surveys Human Knowledge

Book:History of the Inductive Sciences: I. The Greek school philosophy, with reference to physical science. II. The physical sciences in ancient Greece. III. Greek astronomy. IV. Physical science in the middle ages. V. Formal astronomy after the stationary period

Source: History of the Inductive Sciences: I. The Greek school philosophy, with reference to physical science. II. The physical sciences in ancient Greece. III. Greek astronomy. IV. Physical science in the middle ages. V. Formal astronomy after the stationary period

“The real work of feminism is to empower a woman and to give her language to express a new value system for the world. The new feminism must create both the process by which we generate influence and the influence itself.”

World Giving Real Values Language Process Feminism Influence Empowering Real Work Value Systems

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“To sum up: numbers appear to represent both an attribute of matter and the unconscious foundation of our mental process. For this reason, number forms, according to Jung, that particular element that unites the realms of matter and psyche. It is "real" in a double sense, as an archetypal image and as a qualitative manifestation in the realm of outer-world experience.”

World Real Matter Reason Form Process Numbers Particular Elements Foundation Manifestation Realms Unconscious Attributes Outer Worlds Jung Qualitative

Book:Number and Time

Source: Number and Time

“Joy is a part of my process. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that poetry, as a practice, necessitates a sense of joy. It's exhilarating to come into contact with the things we write into being. And a real sense of play and abandon even when we are relying on hard-won technique, and even when the aim is deadly serious. How often do we get the excuse to stop, think, and then stop thinking altogether and try to listen to what sits behind our outside of our thoughts? Poets are lucky.”

Thinking Writing Trying Real Hard Play Facts Joy Poetry Process Behinds Practice Serious Poet Lucky Aim Excuse Technique Contact Abandon Our Thoughts Exhilarating

Author:Tracy K. Smith

“You can hit a nail on the head, or cause a machine to do so, and get a fairly predictable result. Hit a dog on the head, and it will either dodge, bite back, or die, but it will never again react in the same way. We can predict only those things we set up to be predictable, not what we encounter in the real world of living and reactive processes.”

World Way Real Dies Causes Process Results Dog Machines Encounters Real World Bites Nails Predictable Dodge

Author:Bill Mollison

“Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations.”

World Real Process Claims Observation Real World Testing Infallible

Author:PZ Myers

“The purposiveness of all vital processes, the strategy of the genes and the power of the exploratory drive in animal and man, all seem to indicate that the pull of the future is as real as the pressure of the past.”

Men Real Seems Past Process Animal Pressure Strategy Genes

Author:Arthur Koestler

“Roth Unbound is filled with intelligent readings and smart judgments. Because of the author's sympathy and sharp mind, it offers real insight into the creative process itself, and into Philip Roth's high calling as a great American artist. The book is, in some ways, a radical rereading of Roth's life and his work. It is impossible, by the end, not to feel a tender admiration for Roth as a novelist and indeed for Claudia Roth Pierpont as an empathetic and brilliant critic.”

“Healing of the physical without the change in the mental and spiritual aspects brings little real help to the individual in the end. How true, because the mind and the body imprint and imitate each other. What we think, we become. What we become, we think. It's an insidious process that can predispose us to illness or it can lead us to health.”

Thinking Mind Littles Real Ends Helping Body Spiritual Individual Process Healing Aspect Illness Insidious

Author:Edgar Cayce

“The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.”

Real Happens Process Decision Opinion Support Meetings Developing Gathering Making Decisions

Author:Bill Vaughan

“I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of us who can laugh at the world and ourselves. ... I fear the dry turn of the American mind, this focus on the literal, as much as I fear our capacity for self-destruction. We've become hagridden by facts, obsessed with product instead of process. Where's the energetic wit, the looney outlook, the frivolity, the lightness of comforting laughter? It has become fashionable to know and unfashionable to feel, and you can't really laugh if you can't feel.”

“[Henry Miller] was such a scribomaniac that even when he lived in the same house as Lawrence Durrell they often exchanged letters. For most of his life, Henry wrote literally dozens of letters a day to people he could have easily engaged in conversation - and did. The writing process, in short, was essential. As it is to all real writers, writing was life and breath to him. He put out words as a tree puts out leaves.”

People Writing Real House Process Tree Conversation Essentials Letters Breaths Engaged Dozen Writing Process

Author:Erica Jong

“We talk about the vulnerability involved in sharing our work publicly. I don't think we talk enough about the real vulnerability involved in making art; if we truly engage the process we are changed by it.”

Ifs Thinking Art Real Enough Process Changed Involved Photographer Vulnerability

Author:John Paul Caponigro

“Someone responding to the story said 'real spies do not speak like that'. Well, I am a spy and that is how they talk. Whenever we had a debate in the office on how to handle crimes, they do not defend due process - they defend decisive action. They say it is better to kick someone out of a plane than let these people have a day in court. It is an authoritarian mindset in general.”

People Wells Said Real Stories Action Speak Process Crime Office Court Mindset Dues Debate Handle Planes Kicks Spy Responding Nsa Due Process Decisive Action

Author:Edward Snowden

“Every strategy for real social change - land reform, education, public health, the equitable distribution of natural resources ... - has been cleverly, cunningly, and consistently scuttled and rendered ineffectual by those castes and that class of people which has a stranglehold on the political process.”

People Has Beens Real Political Social Process Natural Class Land Resources Strategy Reform Consistently Social Change Distribution Natural Resources Public Health Castes Equitable

Book:War Talk

Source: War Talk

“Every democracy must involve civil society in the process of establishing budgets, and all sectors of society must be consulted to determine what the real priorities of the population are. Lobbies, including military contractors and other representatives of the military-industrial complex, must not be allowed to hijack these priorities to the detriment of the population's real needs.”

Needs Real Process Democracy Military Complexes Including Population Determine Priorities Budgets Representatives Civil Society Military Industrial Complex Contractor

Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“Sometimes touring can warp reality because you're never in one place long enough to get a feel for it. You don't interact with people long enough to know what real life is. That's why a lot of artists write songs about longing and missing people when they're on the road. I do my best to keep my mind open and I read a lot when I'm on tour, so I hope I have good things to write about. I'm constantly in the songwriting process.”

People Knows Feels Writing Mind Long Real Sometimes Enough Reality Life Is Artist Song Process Missing Longing Good Things Real Life Songwriting Writing Process Touring Warp

Author:Jason Mraz

“If any has stumbled in his journey, there is a way back. The process is called repentance. Our Savior died to provide you and me that blessed gift. Though the path is difficult, the promise is real: 'Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow' (Isaiah 1:18).”

Ifs Way Real Process Difficult Sin White Path Journey Promise Died Blessed Snow Repentance Savior Scarlet

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“In live-action, writing, production and editing happen in discrete stages. In animation, they overlap - happening simultaneously. This allows a real dialogue to occur between the writer, the director, the actors and the editor, and it makes the writing process a lot more collaborative and a lot less lonely.”

Writing Real Happens Action Actors Process Stage Directors Happenings Lonely Productions Dialogue Editors Editing Writing Process Animation Discrete

Author:Michael Arndt

“The mystical perception (which is only "mystical" if reality is limited to what can be measured by the intellect and senses) is remarkably consistent in all ages and all places. All phenomena are processes, connections, all is in flux...have the mind screens knocked away to see there is no real edge to anything, that in the endless interpenetration of the universe, a molecular flow, a cosmic energy shimmers in all stone and steel as well as flesh.”

“Real communication is an attitude, an environment. It is the most interactive of all processes. It requires countless hours of eyeball to eyeball, back and forth. It involves more listening than talking.”

Real Process Hours Attitude Talking Environment Communication Listening Back And Forth Interactive Eyeballs

Book:Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader

Source: Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader

“In diabetes mellitus the case is as follows: the ego-organization, as it submerges in the astral and etheric realm, is so weakened that it can no longer effectively accomplish its action upon the sugar-substance. The sugar then undergoes the processes in the astral and etheric realms which should take place in the ego-organization.... From all this we see that a real healing process for diabetes mellitus can only be initiated if we are in a position to strengthen the ego-organization of the patient.”

Ifs Should Real Action Process Healing Cases Position Ego Organization Patient Scary Accomplish Substance Realms Sugar Diabetes Healing Process

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“The process of philosophizing, to my mind, consists mainly in passing from those obvious, vague, ambiguous things, that we feel quite sure of, to something precise, clear, definite, which by reflection and analysis we find is involved in the vague thing that we start from, and is, so to speak, the real truth of which that vague thing is a sort of shadow.”

Feels Mind Real Speak Process Clear Involved Reflection Shadow Philosophical Obvious Passing Passings Analysis Definite Vague Precise Ambiguous Real Truth

Book:Russell's Logical atomism

Source: Russell's Logical atomism

“All the followers of science are fully persuaded that the processes of investigation, if only pushed far enough, will give one certain solution to each question to which they can be applied.... This great law is embodied in the conception of truth and reality. The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate is what we mean by the truth, and the object represented in this opinion is the real.”

Ifs Giving Mean Real Enough Reality Truth Law Science Certain Process Opinion Objects Solutions Conception Followers Investigation Realism Truth And Reality

Book:Chance, love, and logic philosophical essays

Source: Chance, love, and logic philosophical essays

“A revolution is not the overturning of a cart, a reshuffling in the cards of state. It is a process, a swelling, a new growth in the race. If it is real, not simply a trauma, it is another ring in the tree of history, layer upon layer of invisible tissue composing the evidence of a circle.”

Ifs Real States Process Growth Change Race History Tree Revolution Evidence Trauma Rings Circles Invisible Cards Layers Composing Tissues Carts Swelling New Growth

Book:Flying

Source: Flying

“To call a posit a posit is not to patronize it. A posit can be unavoidable except at the cost of other no less artificial expedients. Everything to which we concede existence is a posit from the standpoint of a description of the theory-building process, and simultaneously real from the standpoint of the theory that is being built.”

Real Process Existence Building Theory Cost Built Description Artificial Standpoint

Book:Word and Object

Source: Word and Object

“The dignity to be sought in death is the appreciation by others of what one has been in life,... that proceeds from a life well lived and from the acceptance of one's own death as a necessary process of nature.... It is also the recognition that the real event taking place at the end of our life is our death, not the attempts to prevent it.”

Wells Has Beens Real Ends Wisdom Life Is Process Our Lives Dying Events Acceptance Dignity Appreciation Recognition Life Well Lived

Author:Sherwin B. Nuland

“The United States need to put internet processes, policies, and procedures in place with real laws that forbid going beyond the borders of what's reasonable to ensure that the only time that we and other countries around the world exercise these authorities are when it is absolutely necessary.”

“But in the prevalent discussion of classes, there are illegitimate transitions to the notions of a 'nexus' and of a 'proposition'. The appeal to a class to perform the services of a proper entity is exactly analogous to an appeal to an imaginary terrier to kill a real rat. Process and Reality”

Real Reality Process Class Notion Appeals Discussion Transition Imaginary Entity Rats Propositions Nexus Terriers

Book:Process and Reality

Source: Process and Reality

“Sodas use “caramel coloring” to give them that dark, delicious look. Not to be confused with real caramel, caramel color is the single most used food coloring in the world. It is created by heating ammonia and sulfites under high pressure-a process that produces a cancerous substance called 4-methylimidazole (4-MEI).”

World Giving Looks Real Use Used Process Dark Produce Color Pressure Substance Confused Delicious Soda Heating Caramel

Book:The Food Babe Way: Break Free from the Hidden Toxins in Your Food and Lose Weight, Look Years Younger, and Get Healthy in Just 21 Days!

Source: The Food Babe Way: Break Free from the Hidden Toxins in Your Food and Lose Weight, Look Years Younger, and Get Healthy in Just 21 Days!

“Real intelligence must be fiercely capable of investigating every aspect of existence, including the very process of knowledge that we call science .”

Real Process Existence Capable Aspect Including Investigating Real Intelligence

Book:The transmission of doubt: talks and essays on the transcendence of scientific materialism through radical understanding

Source: The transmission of doubt: talks and essays on the transcendence of scientific materialism through radical understanding

“Great potential for personal empowerment can be found in attending to our awareness of global problems and to our understanding of how they connect with each other and with our personal lives. The process of naming the danger, saying aloud that the threats to life on earth are real, moves us from the numbness of denial to the aliveness that makes action possible.”

Real Problem Action Earth Moving Found Process Understanding Awareness Danger Empowerment Threat Denial Personal Life Attending Numbness Personal Empowerment

Author:Sarah Connor