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“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

“In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or energy.”

Writing Real Energy Lost Waste

Author:Larry Brooks

“I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched my hurt, and even relished it, a little, for now I could write a real death, a true loss. My heart was broken by my dark lady, and I wept, in my room, alone; but while I wept, somewhere inside I smiled.”

Ifs Writing Heart Littles Real Hurt Dark Loss Rooms Son Broken My Heart Happenings Died My Son I Was Hurt

Author:Neil Gaiman

“How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say 'No' at the same time, it sounds like neighing - yet people are perpetually doing it in novels. If they did it in real life they would be locked up.”

People Ifs Writing Trying Real Done Would Be Earth Sound Novel Laughing Real Life Locked Locked Up

Author:Hilaire Belloc

“My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.”

World Real Happens Together Politician Ambition Real World

Author:Johann Lamont

“I'm pretty proud of having completed a marathon myself, so I can only imagine the pride that real athletes feel when they are picked for the Olympic or the Paralympic Games.”

Feels I Can Real Games Imagine Pride Proud Athlete Marathon

Author:Johann Lamont

“I'm following a real event and real people.”

People Real Events Following

Author:John Landis

“If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.”

Ifs Real Stories Names Real Story

Author:Kendrick Lamar

“There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama.”

People Ifs Made Real Kids Grows Stuff Rooms Focus Couple Drama Commitment

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“If the weather's nice, I like to be outside exercising, but when it's colder, I'm a real homebody and I catch up on my reading.”

Ifs Real Reading Nice Exercise Weather Homebodies

Author:Jeremy Sumpter

“I'm a real home girl.”

Real Home Girl

Author:Lisa Snowdon

“I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.”

Ifs Feels I Can Real Matter Character Action Interesting Reader Kings Regard Meetings Queens Plot Compelled Twists Meeting Someone Plot Twists

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral.”

Ifs World Giving Real Clear Danger Lessons Pressure Severe Spirals Protectionism Downturn Downward Spiral

Author:Manmohan Singh

“It seems like there's a real appetite for science fiction in the States.”

Real States Seems Fiction Science Fiction Appetite

Author:Matt Smith

“I want to focus on each scene. I'm a real perfectionist, and I don't want to feel like I didn't consider every possible variation of a scene. I come from a theater background, so I'm used to a lot of repetition, and I'm used to really attacking something over and over and over again.”

Want Feels Real Used Focus Scene Theater Backgrounds Repetition Attacking Variation Perfectionist

Author:Michael Shannon

“Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.”

Years Real Film Song Years Ago Quentin Tarantino

Author:Nancy Sinatra

“A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.”

Real Sound Morning Likes Truck Garbage New Yorkers Garbage Trucks

Author:R. L. Stine

“I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.”

Book Real Goes On Scary Parks Theme Chickens Theme Parks

Author:R. L. Stine

“I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.”

Book Ideas Real Mets Real Life Ghost Bees Mummy

Author:R. L. Stine

“It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing.”

People Giving Writing Kind Real Able Song Three Draws Pops Brilliant Chords Great People Pop Song

Author:Regina Spektor

“There's a real danger in trying to stay king of the mountain. You stop taking risks, you stop being as creative, because you're trying to maintain a position. Apart from anything else that really takes the fun out of it.”

Trying Real Fun Creative Risk Danger Position Kings Mountain Taking Risks

Author:Sissy Spacek

“In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret.”

Real Sometimes Secret Democracy Danger

Author:Stuart Symington

“Acting is never done. We're trying to keep it real and make sure that you're entertained and it seems unrehearsed.”

Trying Real Done Seems Acting Keeping It Real

Author:Tom Sizemore

“The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.”

Long Real Social Term Sin Security Long Term Social Security Short Term Rip Scams

Author:Tony Snow

“I've always been interested in definitions, because in the Bible, the Ten Commandments are there but there's no real clear definition of what sin is, in a fundamental sense - how we can use the words to evaluate our lives as we go along: Am I doing something that is ethically good? Am I being worthwhile in my life at this moment?”

Real Moments Use Sin Clear Our Lives Ten Fundamentals Definitions Worthwhile Commandments Evaluate Ten Commandments

Author:Whitley Strieber

“Never having alone time is real tough on people.”

People Real Tough Alone Time

Author:Yakov Smirnoff

“You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'”

Knows Art Real Difficult Drawing Works Of Art Difficult Things

Author:Zack Snyder

“It's interesting now that basically a CG set is the same cost as a real set. So like if you're going to build a CG house in the suburbs, it costs you $200,000. And if you were going to build it in a computer, it'll cost you $200,000. It's the same... the relationship is exactly the same.”

Ifs Real House Interesting Cost Computer Suburbs

Author:Zack Snyder

“My immediate family is real close-knit.”

Real Immediate Family

Author:Kenan Thompson

“The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves. Self-driving cars appear in countless science fiction movies. By Hollywood standards, they are so normal we don't even notice them. But in real life, they still don't exist. What if you could buy one today?”

Ifs Stills Real Self Today Fiction Car Elements Normal Standards Hollywood Science Fiction Driving Real Life What If Defining 1960s Knights Riders Science Fiction Movie Driving Cars

Author:Sebastian Thrun

“I'm such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.”

Real Nerd Geek

Author:Aisha Tyler

“People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real.”

People Real Angry Real Life

Author:Amber Tamblyn

“Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.”

Real Poet Insult Lyric Poetry

Author:Bernie Taupin

“The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.”

Real Seems Balance Nuclear Being Real Metaphysical

Author:E. P. Thompson

“I've often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life.”

Way Kind Mean Real Strong Real Life Very Strong Flashy

Author:Holland Taylor

“I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, and on top of it I can put The Rolling Stones' feeling, anyone's feeling on top. Nobody has ever done this before, man.”

Men I Can Real Done Feelings Beats Stones Hip Hop Rhythm Hips Hops Rolling Rolling Stones Reggae

Author:Ike Turner

“It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be directed. It's hard for me to shift gears.”

Want Real Hard Actors Difficult Directors Ten Gears Collaborators

Author:Jeanne Tripplehorn

“Games are not so bad because the adrenalin keeps you going, but training on a daily basis when every time you move it hurts, that is a real battle.”

Real Moving Games Hurt Battle Training Bases It Hurts

Author:John Terry

“One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.”

Doe I Can Real Reason Film Mediums Fake Back And Forth Literal Coliseum

Author:Julie Taymor

“Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.”

Book Real Character Alive Reader Direct Connections Dialogue

Author:Laini Taylor

“I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Humans Looks Important Real Culture Fantasy Building Best Way Real Human

Author:Laini Taylor

“I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I rebelled against it in the '90s. I thought it was a backlasher, some sort of faulty data. But it's real. I'm glad I woke up before my body was just like 'uh-uh.”

Real Body Wanted Felt Myth Glad Data Clock Biological Clock

Author:Lili Taylor

“I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.”

Real Wish Simple Television Real Life

Author:Nancy Travis

“I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system.”

Thinking Real Done Effort Degrees Educational Clock Intensity Breakthrough Educational System Part Time

Author:Peter Thiel

“I definitely wouldn't shy away from doing another action based project, but I feel like my forte is more like playing real, ordinary people. I'm a girl's girl.”

People Feels Real Action Girl Projects Ordinary Shy Ordinary People Forte

Author:Rachael Taylor

“In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only man for that job and get a special work permit until I went under contract to MGM.”

Men Real Problem Jobs Special Authority Immigration Convince Contracts Permit Real Work Mgm

Author:Rod Taylor

“The way everyone in London is right up against each other makes it very real to you growing up, the fact that people have different lives to you. And that causes problems; of course it does.”

People Way Doe Different Real Facts Problem Courses Causes Growing Up Growing London Different Life

Author:Tinie Tempah

“For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.”

Knows Writing Trying Heart Real Character Relate Performers Being Real

Author:Uma Thurman

“My goal in politics from the very beginning has been, and will be, the goal of giving Ukraine a chance to finally secure a firm footing in the world as a competitive, independent and real European state.”

World Giving Has Beens Real States Goal Chance Independent Secure Firm Ukraine

Author:Yulia Tymoshenko

“So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I can do it myself, I'm going to do it myself. I'm not going to let other people do it for me, and I think that's a big part of where I came from. I'm not a real prissy girl.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying I Can Real Helping Bigs Girl Can Do Help Me I Can Do It Luggage

Author:Carrie Underwood

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