- Nov 07, 2020
Real Quotes
On staying grounded in what's real.
This set plays with double meanings, from researchers chasing clever ideas over practical relevance to a footballer's memories of a transfer away from a famous Spanish club. For more on genuine feeling, see Like.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Guy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a real estate guy.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I have cash and I can't figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.
- Point Of View
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- Nov 07, 2020
Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent people are very well-coordinated.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting. Realism degrades and impoverishes.
- Class
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- Nov 07, 2020
In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was on the cusp - or thought I was on the cusp - of celebrity, the result of starring as an adorable curly-haired alien in the miniseries 'V' on NBC. 'V' was a hit, and then got green-lit as a series. During the hiatus, the only job I auditioned for that fit my schedule was 'Nightmare on Elm Street.' That's the real reason I said yes.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020