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“From a Buddhist point of view, emotions are not real. As an actor, I manufacture emotions. They're a sense of play. But real life is the same. We're just not aware of it.”

Real Play Life Is Actors Views Emotion Point Of View Real Life Buddhist

Author:Richard Gere

“I like the fact that it [social media] is unfiltered. In other words it's not Geraldo of Fox News or Geraldo of WABC Radio, it's Geraldo. And you know it's raw, unedited, what I'm thinking, what I'm feeling, or, you know, some mistakes I'm making in real time. And I see that as a way to go out kicking and screaming. People will be hearing from me 'til the bitter end now.”

People Thinking Knows Way Real Ends Facts Feelings Social Mistake Media News Radio Social Media Hearing Bitter Foxes Kicking Fox News

Author:Geraldo Rivera

“Something hurts, lean in. You just lean into that point until it loses its power over you. There's a certain amount of suffering that you have to be willing to sustain if you want to have a good life. And the real trick is to be able to sustain it with your heart open and still be loving.”

Ifs Want Heart Stills Real Able Certain Suffering Loses Hurt Willing Amount Tricks Over You Good Life

Author:Will Smith

“I'm voting for Gore because the other is unthinkable. Which most of us will probably do. I hope all of us. I've always liked Ralph Nader and would like to see a real third party, but the thought of George Bush as president is unthinkable.”

Real President Party Thirds Voting Gore Unthinkable Third Parties Inspirational Voting

Author:Richard Gere

“I'm not a real gadgety person. But bottle opener is probably the gadget I can't live without. Actually, I can open a bottle of beer pretty easily without it, but wine is always too much of a pain in the (rear) to open that up. So a corkscrew is probably the gadget that I can't live without.”

Persons I Can Real Pain Too Much Wine Beer Bottles Gadgets

Author:Dave Matthews

“I'm not beating people over the head, and I'm saying that there are good things in store - you can make it in life. Most of the stuff that I minister [is] not real complicated deep things.”

People Real Stuff Good Things Complicated Stores Ministers Deep Things

Author:Joel Osteen

“There's no doubt in my mind that Ronald Reagan was by far the greatest. Because he had real principles and he stuck by them. He made clear what he was going to do, and he did it. He didn't back down.”

Mind Made Real Principles Clear Doubt Stuck No Doubt

Author:Milton Friedman

“I was always a singer, it was nothing anyone planned on me doing for real, because it's an unusual thing. I was just sort of saying, even having modest ambitions to have a small career at singing, it's still really difficult to do that. Everyone wants to sing or act or whatever.”

Want Stills Real Difficult Careers Ambition Singing Singers Unusual Modest Unusual Things

Author:Lana Del Rey

“Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.”

Real Happens Novel Happened Real Life

Author:Anne Lamott

“I don't even do anything in real life. I just sit in my studio and write, I call my friends, I watch television. I don't do anything.”

Writing Real Watches Television My Friends Studios Real Life

Author:Lana Del Rey

“I also love lifestyles of the rich and famous and guess what? It's not unusual for me to sit in bed with my laptop and glass of wine, clicking through real estate slide shows on the New York Times website; looking at ungodly expensive homes I could not ever possibly afford.”

Real Shows Home Rich New York Bed Wine Glasses Lifestyle Expensive Love Life Unusual Estates Slides Website New York Times Laptops Wine Glass

Author:Chris Hayes

“If you care about real change, deep structural change, that involves politics, and all politics is friction. It takes leadership, and the willingness to create that friction, that leads to social change.”

Ifs Real Care Social Willingness Social Change Friction Real Change If You Care

Author:Nick Hanauer

“I'm not a real gadgety person. In fact, some people think that I'm kind of primitive.”

People Thinking Kind Persons Real Facts Primitive

Author:Dave Matthews

“I don't like doing action movies. They're not that interesting... it's fun to do the physical element but the really fun stuff, like running into exploding buildings, they won't let you do. There's too much money riding on you not getting hurt. But yes, there's something exhilarating in just sitting on a beach with somebody having a real conversation. There's something exhilarating about being open and honest.”

“Audiences and critics they don't like seeing what happens in real life. Why do you think comedies make all the money at the box office? People want to go and laugh. I can understand that.”

People Thinking Want I Can Real Happens Audience Laughing Comedy Seeing Office Critics Boxes Real Life Box Office

Author:Channing Tatum

“I think references, where they fit organically, are great. It's great to do a show that's real and relatable, and so much of what is real, is using real things and instances that are specific. Specificity is the best tool you can have, as a writer.”

Thinking Real Shows Fit Tools Instance Relatable Real Things Specificity

Author:Mindy Kaling

“Shooting in real-life situations helps actors because they're competing against the noise and the wind. Out of that comes things that shift and change, in terms of tone, but not in terms of re-honing the whole sequence.”

Real Whole Helping Actors Term Situation Wind Real Life Noise Shooting Tone Competing Sequence Honing

Author:Tony Scott

“Research is what drives me. When I get a script, I go to the real world and touch the real people.”

People World Real Research Scripts Real World

Author:Tony Scott

“I have a lot more real friends, than friends that I'm talking to on the Internet. That's not cool, not safe, not fun and most likely not real. Everything is just better when you're not so wrapped up in that. I just think it's lame.”

Thinking Real Fun Talking Internet Safe Real Friends Lame

Author:Miley Cyrus

“For me it's about the character, not as much about the genre of it [movie]. I'm excited that I get to work and play interesting characters and I'm not just the girl who gets to play the girlfriend or the wife. I get to play real women who have struggles and troubles and passions and that's always what I hope to do no matter what format that lies in.”

Real Matter Play Character Lying Girl Passion Interesting Struggle Wife Trouble No Matter What Excited Genre Girlfriend Format Interesting Characters Real Women Work And Play

Author:Ali Larter

“The real world is where I get to educate and entertain myself. I go and touch the real world and touch real people. That's my way into movies.”

People World Way Real My Way Real World Educate

Author:Tony Scott

“I love shooting with real things in the real world. I think it gives a level of drama, performance, and everything seems to rise to the occasion.”

Thinking World Giving Real Seems Levels Drama Performances Occasions Shooting Real World Real Things

Author:Tony Scott

“I pray because I am real clear that what I am doing and how I am doing it is my service, is my ministry, and so I want to be in perfect alignment with my creator. I do not care who you are. If I do not get the okay on the inside, you will not be showing up on the outside.”

Ifs Want Real Care Perfect Clear Praying Okay Who You Are Creator Ministry I Pray Alignment Showing Up

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“While we appreciate our ancestry as Americans or even our ethnic ancestry and our color of skin, we believe that our real citizenship is in Heaven.”

Believe Real Heaven Color Appreciate Skins Citizenship Ancestry

Author:Max Lucado

“She [Marilyn Monroe] wasn't the most incredibly beautiful. She's rather ordinary. Cute, but no Rita Hayworth. I think she was ready for the camera, and it was a real destiny for her.”

Thinking Real Beautiful Destiny Ready Ordinary Cameras Cute

Author:Gail Levin

“When a song comes from a real story and from a real place I think it comes across to people. That's important.”

People Thinking Important Real Stories Song Real Story

Author:Negash Ali

“I will tell you one other thing about money: when you don't have it, it sure as hell affects the quality of people's health, and their relationships. And paper money isn't even real today, right? It's all really ones and zeros in computers today. But at the same time, if you don't have it, it certainly affects the quality of your life.”

People Ifs Real Today Quality Hell Paper Computer Paper Money

Author:Tony Robbins

“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.”

Real Hard Play Character Film Games Class Watches Morning Middle Television Balls Real Life Restaurants Middle Class Lunch Competent Practise Ball Games Clarinet Middle Class Life

Author:Woody Allen

“The great thing about visual horror films is there's real potential for strong, beautiful imagery. It's the one genre that really lends itself to creating strong images. And I've always loved that idea of windmills - your mind aimlessly spinning.”

Mind Ideas Real Beautiful Film Strong Horror Creating Great Things Genre Visuals Imagery Spinning Horror Film Windmills

Author:Tim Burton

“I don't really dream, I space out during the day - that's one of my problems wonder off when someone's talking to me. I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.”

I Can Real Problem Dream Seems Remember Space Talking Wonder Strange Real Life

Author:Tim Burton

“Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate issues almost everywhere.”

Real Action Issues Industry Climate Financial Fuel Fossils Fossil Fuel Delayed

Author:Bill McKibben

“Rule No. 1 is you can't be fake. If you're fake, you become a gimmick and you're selling a gimmick; a little gimmick is cool, this is entertainment. But when you base your stuff on mostly real stuff, you never run out of it because every day is a different adventure.”

Ifs Littles Different Real Running Stuff Adventure Entertainment Selling Fake Gimmicks Real Stuff

Author:Nas

“I have an old soul. I don't know any real-life lingo, so I have to take it from movies.”

Knows Real Soul Real Life Old Soul

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“Any artistic achievement that is tailored to conform to social demands rather than to the real, uninhibited, feelings of its creator, is destined not to reach the heights of achievement, or even fail. It is only when an artist is dis-inhibited that he or she can reach the heights of artistic achievement.”

Real Feelings Artist Social Failing Demand Achievement Creator Artistic Height Conform Destined Tailored

Author:Semir Zeki

“I think the real test is to plan something and be able to carry it out to the very end. Not that you're always enthusiastic; it's just that you have to get this thing out. It's not done with one's emotions; it's done with the head.”

Thinking Real Ends Done Able Emotion Plans Tests Enthusiasm Enthusiastic

Author:Richard Estes

“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

“There's a thrill in the midst of the hardship in knowing that I'm making the invisible real. And I'm doing what I want.”

Want Real Knowing Difficulty Invisible Midst Hardship Thrill

Author:Errollyn Wallen

“The real function of the artist is to give fresh vision to their own generation.”

Giving Real Artist Vision Generations Function

Author:Doris McCarthy

“The edge of a painting is its frontier... where the artist negotiates his boundaries with the real world... where art begins and ends and where the eye enters and leaves the image. It determines, in an infinitely subtle number of ways, how you read a painting - which, unlike a book or a piece of music, has no pre-determined beginning or end.”

World Way Art Book Real Ends Eye Artist Numbers Pieces Painting Art Is Edges Determine Determined Boundaries Subtle Real World Frontiers

Author:Andrew Graham-Dixon

“I don't feel any real animosity towards critics when they write negative things. I think some are more perceptive than others. Some are very knowledgeable about painting. But it isn't something I have any influence over, so there isn't any point in worrying about it.”

Thinking Feels Writing Real Worry Influence Painting Negative Critics Knowledgeable Animosity

Author:Peter Doig

“A basis for much of the pain women suffer in real life is they must somehow resolve their devotion to men.”

Men Real Pain Life Is Suffering Bases Gender Real Life Devotion Resolve

Author:Billy Cannon

“Past and Future are a duality of which Present is the reality. The now-moment alone is eternal and real.”

Real Moments Reality Past Eternal Duality

Author:Wei Wu Wei

“The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.”

Art Real Character Artist Alive Subjects Stress Strive Caricatures Portraiture Real Artists

Author:William Dobell

“I'm always being asked if I watch 'The X Factor,' and I do from time to time. I know it makes for great TV and that Simon Cowell has a real gift.”

Ifs Knows Real Watches Tvs Factors

Author:Shirley Bassey

“There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies.”

Humans Art Real Moments Character Lying Human Beings Darkness Lovely Decent Suspects Glimpse Twisted Affirming Life Affirming

Author:Martin McDonagh

“Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world it is more dangerous. In the west people think it's a right they're born with. Here it's a right given by the government, and one that's not really practised.”

People Thinking World Real Government Given Born Opinion Dangerous Citizens Constitution West Chinese Real World

Author:Ai Weiwei

“Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have said it first.I say that information doesn't deserve to be free.Cybernetic totalists love to think of the stuff as if it were alive and had its own ideas and ambitions. But what if information is inanimate? What if it's even less than inanimate, a mere artifact of human thought? What if only humans are real, and information is not?...Information is alienated experience.”

Ifs Thinking Want Firsts Humans Said Ideas Real Whole Seems Earth Stuff Alive Information Ambition Deserve Mere Brands What If Founders Artifacts Human Thought

Book:You Are Not a Gadget

Source: You Are Not a Gadget

“I am afraid! It is not starving I fear, or talking to people, or even being alone. But I cannot bear to be useless and ineffectual. There must be some meaning to me, if not to my life; there must surely be some purpose that has my name written on it. If this is not so, if I am deceiving myself about this too, then why should I want to become real? What reason have I to live anywhere?”

People Ifs Want Should Real Reason Purpose Names Talking Written Bears Useless Deceiving Should I Starving

Book:A fine and private place: The last unicorn

Source: A fine and private place: The last unicorn

“Here is a quilted book about mathematical practice, each patch wonderfully prepared. Part invitation to number theory, part autobiography, part sociology of mathematical training, Mathematics without Apologies brings us into contemporary mathematics as a living, active inquiry by real people. Anyone wanting a varied, cultured, and penetrating view of today's mathematics could find no better place to engage.”

People Book Real Today Views Numbers Practice Theory Training Mathematics Prepared Active Contemporary Mathematical Apology Autobiography Sociology Better Place Inquiry Invitations Patches

Author:Peter Galison

“Ultimately a life message shouts more clearly and loudly than a brand message. Your image may communicate an outward brand, but your life shouts the real inner message.”

May Real Messages Communicate Brands

Author:Kerry Shook

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