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“When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.”

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Author:Samantha Morton

“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.”

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Author:Alessandro Nivola

“I had this grand idea that Elvira's kind of the Santa Claus of Halloween - at the malls, you'd have an Elvira there. Girls would dress as Elvira just like guys dress as Santa Claus, and it's not the real thing, but they'll pose for pictures, sign autographs. Of course, I couldn't go around to every mall, so we'd have to get more Elviras.”

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Author:Cassandra Peterson

“A successful argument for a government manufacturing policy has to go beyond the feeling that it's better to produce 'real things' than services. American consumers value health care and haircuts as much as washing machines and hair dryers.”

“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better , if less "showily." Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself... Teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences.”

“I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It's just hard to get comfortable with Gore - it was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.”

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Author:Al Franken

“When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't been around enough - novelists never go anywhere. Once I discovered true books about real things - books like 'How To Run a Company' - I stopped reading novels.”

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Author:Peter York

“As we gain satisfaction from artificial substitutes for nature we forget that there is no known substitute for Nature, the real thing and its eons of intelligent, life supportive, experience. Each substitute we create falls short of nature's balanced perfection, thus producing our pollution, garbage and relationship conflicts.”

Source: The Web of Life Imperative: Regenerative Ecopsychology Techniques That Help People Think in Balance with Natural Systems

“Thoughts and ideas are not phantoms. They are real things. Although intangible and immaterial, they are factors in bringing about changes in the realm of tangible and material things.”

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Book:An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution: The Economist

Source: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution: The Economist

“I'm kind of a scaredy cat - I don't watch a ton of them. I mean, I started reaching this script at night and had to wait until the next morning to finish it so it would be light out. It really scared me. The scary movies I like are The Others and Pan's Labyrinth - they're so scary but they're about real things, and hopefully this is too.”

Kind Mean Real Light Would Be Night Next Waiting Watches Morning Cat Scripts Scared Scary Hopefully Reaching Real Things Labyrinth

Author:Keri Russell

“I dislike the word 'emerging artist.' Emerging connotes to me an alligator coming up from the water. I consider all artists to be artists, not rising, emerging, amateur, beginning, but the real thing.”

Real Artist Water Rising Dislike Emerging Real Things Alligators

Author:Jack White

“It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness - just in case they, and not beauty, are the real things of value.”

Real Jobs Artist Values Beauty Cases Goodness Aim Real Things Enchanted

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“We seem to know when to 'tap the heart.' Others have hit the intellect. We can hit them in all emotional way. Those who appeal to the intellect only appeal to a very limited group. The real thing behind this is: we are in the motion picture business, only we are drawing them instead of photographing them.”

Knows Way Heart Real Seems Behinds Groups Design Emotional Development Intellect Drawing Appeals Real Things Motion Pictures

Author:Walt Disney

“As an athlete, you'll never feel bad about losing, but what you will feel bad about is underperforming. That's a real thing and it happens a lot when we don't live up to our potential. And that keeps you up at night and can give you years and years of regret. It could be a relationship, it could be a homework assignment, or it could be an athletic competition. If you don't go out and perform to the best of your ability, it will really bother you.”

Ifs Giving Feels Years Real Happens Night Ability Regret Losing Competition Athlete Bother Athletic Real Things Homework Assignments Athletic Competition

Author:Chael Sonnen

“I don't like honors. ... I've already got the prize: the prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it. Those are the real things.”

People Real Use Pleasure Honor Findings Discovery Observation Kicks Prize Real Things

Book:The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

Source: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

“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

“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.”

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Author:Tony Scott

“Maybe the most real thing the end. To realize when it's too late.”

Real Ends Realizing Late Too Late Real Things

Book:The Dog Stars

Source: The Dog Stars

“What a strange world it is where you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. I'm talking about the real thing, the grand passion, which may not allow affection or convenience or happiness. The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down. That's the size of it, the immensity of it. It's not proper, it's not clean, it's not containable.”

Ifs World Love Heart May Real Passion Sex Love Is Talking Strange Truth Is Built Clean Size Affection Ice Convenience Taboo Real Things Immensity Strange World

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves.”

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Author:Woody Allen

“This love of ours, in so far as it is a love for one particular creature, is not perhaps a very real thing, since, though associations of pleasant or painful musings can attach it for a time to a woman to the extent of making us believe that it has been inspired by her in a logically necessary way, if on the other hand we detach ourselves deliberately or unconsciously from those associations, this love, as though it were in fact spontaneous and sprang from ourselves alone, will revive in order to bestow itself on another woman.”

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Author:Marcel Proust

“No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.”

Wells Real Matter Seems Plans Real Things Unreal

Author:Gregory Benford

“The truth is hidden from us. Even if a mere piece of luck brings us straight to it, we shall have no grounded conviction of our success; there are so many similar objects, all claiming to be the real thing.”

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Book:Works of Lucian of Samosata (Complete Four Volumes)

Source: Works of Lucian of Samosata (Complete Four Volumes)

“Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.”

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Author:Cat Stevens

“I so much like real things - the realities that come naturally from the depths of us like - what shall I say? - the way trees grow, from some inner essential principle of them, just expressing itself.”

Way Real Reality Grows Principles Tree Essentials Depth Real Things

Author:Rose Wilder Lane

“She looks like the real thing She tastes like the real thing My fake plastic love But I can't help the feeling I could blow through the ceiling If I just turn and run.”

Ifs Looks I Can Real Helping Feelings Taste Blow Ran Fake Plastic Ceilings Real Things Radiohead

Author:Thom Yorke

“According to quantum field theory, fields alone are real. They are the substance of the universe and not 'matter'. Matter is simply the momentary manifestation of interacting fields which, intangible and insubstantial as they are, are the only real things in the universe.”

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Book:The dancing Wu Li masters: an overview of the new physics

Source: The dancing Wu Li masters: an overview of the new physics

“When a problem seems intractable, it is often a good idea to try to study "toy" versions of it in the hope that as the toys become increasingly larger and more sophisticated, they would metamorphose, in the limit, to the real thing.”

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Author:Doron Zeilberger

“I have traveled with Jessy Dixon for the past several years and never have I been with an artists with more heart. He is the real thing.”

Years Heart Real Past Artist Traveled Real Things

Author:Bill Gaither

“Man enjoys living on the edge of his dreams and neglects the real things of the world which are so beautiful. The ignorant and indifferent destroy beautiful things merely by looking at the marble. Things that remake the soul of him who understands them.”

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Author:Auguste Rodin

“Brandon Sanderson is the real thing-an exciting storyteller with a unique and powerful vision. ELANTRIS is one of the finest debuts I've seen in years.”

Years Real Powerful Vision Unique Exciting Finest Storyteller Real Things Debut

Author:David Farland

“As is so often the case with pieces that appear in the 'Onion,' I honestly could not decide whether this was a clever hoax or not - the arguments were almost exactly as stupid as the real thing.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens

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