Top 100 Quotes About To Be Real
#1. You have to always try to think about them like real people first, and not just heroes. They have to be real characters. As people do more and more superhero stuff, the characters are what distinguish it, just like in cop shows.
Greg Berlanti
#2. I was trying to play as real possible - I wanted everything to be real.
David Giuntoli
#3. What we want is to be real. Let us not appear to be more than we are. Don't let us put on any cant, any assumed humility, but let us be real; that is the delight of God. God wants us to be real men and women, and if we profess to be what we are not, God knows all about us. God hates sham.
Dwight L. Moody
#4. Punishments for mistakes in life which initially seem to be hunters, later seem to be real teachers.
Prateek Gupta
#5. My hair used to be real long, and my parents were encouraged when I cut it. They thought I was going 'straight,' but I was just getting weirder - at least in their eyes. I was getting into the punk thing.
Billy Idol
#6. Nobody knows why we're alive; so we all create stories based on our imagination of the world; and as a community, we believe in the same story. In India, every person believes his/ her own mythosphere to be real. Indian thought is obsessed with subjectivity; Greek thought with objectivity.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#7. My interviewing style and my approach to things is that, yes, it's okay to be sincere; it's okay to be yourself; it's okay to be real.
Eddie Trunk
#8. The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
E.P. Thompson
#10. I think imperfections are important, just as mistakes are important. You only get to be good by making mistakes, and you only get to be real by being imperfect.
Julianne Moore
#11. The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.
Chester Himes
#12. I know I need to watch myself because I don't want anyone to think I'm snobby or stuck up. I have to be real careful. I don't want to hurt my Christian witness.
Austin O'Brien
#13. I try to be genuine. I try to be real. It's such a subjective thing, but I try to convey an emotion.
Robyn
#14. Once the troops move into Cambodia, the colleges and universities of this country were on the verge of civil war. Many closed down. The students were up in arms. And it looked very much like there were going to be real problems in this country.
William Kunstler
#15. The Palestinians need more help from the Arab countries. Since 1967, the world has learned that there is not going to be real progress in the region until Palestine gets something back that they had.
Bruce Dern
#16. I really hate being sick. It seems inevitable that at one point, one of these predicted epidemics is going to be real. So often they come up, and there's people like me that are freaked out, and the majority of people are just like, "You're being idiots, this happens every other year."
Chuck Klosterman
#17. On the first day of school, you got to be real careful where you sit. You walk into the classroom and just plunk your stuff down on any old desk, and the next thing you know the teacher is saying, 'I hope you all like where you're sitting, because these are your permanent seats.'
Jeff Kinney
#18. I love watching people be totally committed in a very real way to stupid situations. I find it's not so much trying to be funny, it's trying to be real in a messed up context. That's comedy to me.
Will Ferrell
#19. [ ... ]to be real
to become fluent, natural, to cut out the detour that sweeps us around what's fundamental to events, preventing us from touching their core: the detour that makes us all second-hand and second-rate.
Tom McCarthy
#20. With trees and rocks and the sea and the stars and the clouds and the sun - you cannot be unreal, you cannot be phoney. You HAVE to be real because when you are encountering nature, nature creates something in you which is natural. Responding to nature continuously, you become natural.
Rajneesh
#21. I was never trying to be experimental or anti-anything; I was always trying to be real to things I was feeling.
Nina Menkes
#22. I hate it when you see in films people with their anoraks flapping open in a blizzard. They'd be dead in a couple of minutes. It's got to be real. It's got to work.
Michelle Paver
#23. Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.
Immanuel Wallerstein
#24. God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#25. A filmmaker has to have great vision in order to tell a compelling story that is both distinctive and stylistic. I remember playing all movies in my head hundreds of times before they were ever made. You have to see it in your imagination. It has to be real to you.
Nicholas Ozeki
#26. Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real.
J.K. Rowling
#27. Photographs have always been the tar baby of censors and obscenity laws. Literature can certainly (if it's any good) conjure up the most pornographic imagination. But photographs dare to be real. No matter how contrived or constructed they are, there's that damn body staring you in the face.
Susie Bright
#28. And still, even when he'd told her how he felt about her, and that he wanted their fake relationship to be real, she'd held herself back out of fear that their friends-to-lovers story was too good to be anything but fiction.
Bella Andre
#29. I took on so many things and not everything was the right fit. If you do that, it can kill your brand. A partnership has to be real and authentic.
Kim Kardashian
#30. You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are all grown up children, really ... So one should go back and search for what was loved and found to be real.
Audrey Hepburn
#31. I like to be real. I don't like things to be staged or fussy.
Alice Temperley
#32. On the stage you try to act real. On the screen you try to be real.
Shirley Maclaine
#33. We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that.
Layne Staley
#34. You make me want to be a better man," Danny said. "You make me want to be worthy of you, Miller. But if that's ever going to stick, if it's ever going to be real, I have to do it for me. I can't do it just because its who you need me to be. It has to be who I need to be too.
Brooke McKinley
#35. I guess it's always romantic when two people fall in love ... Even if it turns out not to be real.
Jennifer Egan
#36. Maybe, the lesson we can all learn from the inner sadness of a Narcissist is to see through our own fabrications, our own illusions so that we can be set free to be real once more.
Shannon L. Alder
#37. When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.
R.L. Stine
#38. It doesn't take much to be good, but it takes a lot to be real good.
Billy Gibbons
#39. You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#40. All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.
Sarah Dessen
#41. Many of the habits of dysfunctional families use are not from the lack of love but are the result of fear. Knowing the love-limiting habits and behaviors of dysfunctional families is a wonderful beginning to lower the fear, allowing us to be real, allowing us all to learn how to love better.
David W. Earle
#42. I think it's hard to see people clearly when your heart gets in the way. When you want something to be real, you look for proof instead of truth.
Kit Rocha
#43. For one last second, I saw them again the way I had that evening: a golden apparition on the front steps, shining and poised like young warriors stepped out of some lost myth, heads lifted, too bright to be real.
Tana French
#44. Fashion is about having a point of view, a taste and a personality. For us we always felt we could apply our DNA really to anything but you have to do it if it's true to you, feels authentic. It has to be real.
Karen Walker
#45. Love to be real, it must cost - it must hurt - it must empty us of self.
Mother Teresa
#46. I think that I'm just the same, but there is sometimes that you just have to be real. You have to look in the mirror and be real with yourself and you have go: 'You know what? I am the best in the world. What is happening?'
Mickie James
#47. Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a 'dream' is going crazy.
R.D. Laing
#48. Here was a guy who had taken much of the Silicon Valley ethic behind moving quickly and running organizations free of bureaucratic hierarchies and applied it to improving big, fantastic machines and chasing things that had the potential to be real breakthroughs we'd been missing.
Ashlee Vance
#49. It takes skill to be real. Time to heal each other
Tupac Shakur
#50. I am an idealist who believes in reality, and who, therefore, in all i write strive to be real, to keep both my own feet and the feet of my readers on the ground so that no matter how high we dream our dreams will be based on reality
Jack London
#51. Perhaps it was an afterimage, I decided, or a ghost: something that had stirred in my mind, for a moment, so powerfully that I believed it to be real, but now was gone, and faded into the past like a memory forgotten, or a shadow into the dusk.
Neil Gaiman
#52. In my experience, if you steer clear of dogma and muster up more love than you thought you had to give, then your vitality increases, satisfaction sets in, sweetness surfaces. I believe in the creative power of good feelings. I'm convinced that the desire to be real is everyone's divine imperative.
Danielle LaPorte
#53. Maybe the desire that burns behind this question is the desire to be real. And which is more real - a clod of dirt unnoticed at your feet, or a hero in a legend?
And maybe behind the desire to be real is simply wanting to be known.
To be held.
Benjamin Rosenbaum
#54. I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real.
David Levithan
#55. I never understand why women think drama and bullshit are attractive to guys. They're not. I'm going to be real clear about this, ladies, so pay attention: Prince Charming doesn't come to rescue cunty lunatics.
Tucker Max
#56. In a weird way, it felt like he belonged here. He belonged in the land of phoenixes and witches, the place where things were too fantastic to be real.
Francesca Zappia
#57. An attractive, elegant, slim woman. The sort of woman she never thought it was possible for her to be. She had become one of those women, those other women, who had seemed too perfectly put together to be real.
Liane Moriarty
#58. People get scared when their faith turns out to be real, when their god actually turns up on their doorstep.
Athan Fletcher
#59. I'm constantly scared. I'm constantly fearful of what's to come and people don't realize that just because you're doing something doesn't mean that you're fearless but you get up every day and you do it. It takes a lot of courage to be real.
Adrienne Bailon
#60. Sex is sharing, you see, and it's good to share with everyone. But the sharing has to be real and meaningful. That creates problems.
George R R Martin
#61. I know a lot of writers, and everyone works differently, but this is something that we truly have in common across all genres - the fiction has to be real inside your head.
Sara Sheridan
#62. It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.
James Earl Jones
#63. The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.
Mahatma Gandhi
#64. I think the idea, first and foremost, is to understand that people may label these characters as villains, but at the end of the day I have to fall in love with the characters that I play. For me, they have to be real characters with real objectives, and driving forces. So they're all different.
Edi Gathegi
#65. If people want to be real meat eaters, I'd love to see people eat raw flesh from the bone, down to the bone with nothing left but the bones, day after day after day.
Gary Yourofsky
#66. To write a good song, an artist has to drawn from reality. There has to be some spark from realism that communicates a real feeling to someone else. You have to be real. Or you have to be a really good storyteller.
Daryl Hall
#67. Things use to be real nice, til they got out of hand. Since they moved in, they call themselves the Taliban.
Toby Keith
#68. We're afraid the others will think we're agringadas because we don't speak Chicano Spanish. We oppress each other trying to out-Chicano each other, vying to be "real" Chicanas, to speak like Chicanos. There is no one Chicano language just as there is no one Chicano experience.
Gloria E. Anzaldua
#69. The world is filled with too many of us who are inclined to indicate our love with an announcement or declaration. True love is a process. True love requires personal action. Love must be continuing to be real. Love takes time.
Marvin J. Ashton
#70. There's a truth to the fact that it's hard to be real. It's easy to be indulgent. It's easy to be bubble gum, but it's hard to find a real thing that really makes your soul tick. It's painful and honest. It can be more challenging than just a sad song.
Mat Kearney
#71. I walk to Starbucks for a quick caffeine fix when I hear a voice too familiar and annoying to be real. 'Tsk tsk pati ba naman dito sinusundan mo ako? Grabe a, are you stalking me?
Kath C. Eustaquio-Derla
#72. You have to be out there and have a mound presence. You have to be real aggressive and be real confident. You have to put the hitters on defense.
Eric Gagne
#73. I started getting jobs, and I thought it was going to be real easy.
Ron Silver
#74. You mean there's someone out there better than your father? (Quills) No, idiot. My father trained him. Just FYI, my father is also his godfather. So you want to be real nice to Dev. All of us take it personally when people aren't. (Adron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#75. People like the shows I do. I want to be real, to have fun, even when I dance on stage ... it's a buzz.
Estelle
#76. Like an image in a dream the world is troubled by love, hatred, and other poisons. So long as the dream lasts, the image appears to be real; but on awaking it vanishes.
Samuel Johnson
#77. I want my photographs not only to be real but to portray the essence of my subjects also. In order to do that, you have to be patient.
Mary Ellen Mark
#78. Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.
Burton Raffel
#79. We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real ... and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who can give himself eternally to the truth in whom he subsists. (295)
Thomas Merton
#80. I just want that sensation you have in dreams when you fly to be real.
Janet Montgomery
#81. By choosing recovery and risking to be real, we set the healthy boundaries that say, I am in charge of my recovery and my life, and no one else on this Earth is.
Charles L. Whitfield
#82. Max almost needed it to be true, for vampires to be real, because the other possibility- that their father was, and always had been, in the grip of a psychotic fantasy- was too awful, too overwhelming.
Joe Hill
#84. What I thought was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real, which seems now to be unreal
Fred Alan Wolf
#85. I couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what I wanted to be real.
Erin Morgenstern
#86. I can't just make a song people can dance in a club to ... it still has to be real.
Mary J. Blige
#88. A tsunami of heartbreak consumed the landscape of her heart, wiping out all she has known or assumed or believed to be real over the last eleven years.
Karen Kingsbury
#89. I know that people get angry and I'm generally a fan of emotions. And to be real, it makes great television. A debate where everybody is yelling at each other is totally fun to watch.
Until you realize that's how we choose a president.
Lisa Scottoline
#90. You try to make characters you care about, and I think realism helps. Even though this is a high concept, the characters have got to be real.
Ricky Gervais
#91. To me, being popular means I've got more friends. You've got to watch who your friends are, if you want to get close to them, but I've got a lot of acquaintances. And then, you've got to be real careful who your friends are, because you never know why they're your friend.
Reba McEntire
#92. I don't like this reality television, I have to be honest;I think real people should not be on television; It's for special people like us, people who have trained and studied to appear to be real
Garry Shandling
#93. We take that which is unreal to be real and that which is real to be unreal.
Rupert Spira
#94. Whatever my life looks like, I want it to be real and big and full. I want when, if I get hit by a car, I want to know that I have deep and real friendships, people to visit me in the hospital.
Jen Kirkman
#96. If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.
Grant Morrison
#97. I'm not a mess but a deeply feeling person in a messy world. I explain that now, when someone asks me why I cry so often, I say, 'For the same reason I laugh so often--because I'm paying attention.' I tell them that we can choose to be perfect and admired or to be real and loved. We must decide.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#98. Self-expression is my goal, I want to be real with my feelings. Singing and dancing and all the joy that goes with performing come from my heart. If I can't feel it, I won't do it.
Janet Jackson
#99. But if I can keep my mind on these pages I don't have to care. I can make this all just go away. Poof. I can stay in this book and then this book gets to be real and everything else gets to be fake and who cares anyway.
Andrea Portes
#100. I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.
Oscar Wilde
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