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The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.
Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
Progressive Conservative candidates from Quebec want to exert real power in Ottawa, not simply be content with playing a secondary role.
I was just so lucky with 'Real Women Have Curves.' At that point, I would have done an insurance commercial. I would have done anything.
Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?
I've decided as an actor the only, the power I have really is in the performance. It's the only real place I get to sort of communicate.
I wanted to say what wasn't being said. I wanted to give people a real story. I wanted people to know people like me exist in the world.
Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
They ignore what is deep and true to a man's heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure.
You know what? I knew that my God was bigger than his [about Muslims in Somalia]. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol.
I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love, for any *%@$n' war or any friend, or any business, because in the end you're alone at night.
The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.
I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.
Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth.
The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real men in matters of blood, or courage.
I take the outline from a real person as inspiration, but the in-line is totally made up. Which is why I usually invent imaginary names.
[The purpose of flight research] is to separate the real from the imagined problems and to make known the overlooked and the unexpected.
I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.
I think today the church faces a very real challenge in not repeating the errors of the past, in sort of a stand off, a fear of science.
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.
I'm dating a girl who's pretty levelheaded. She's a nurse. She's a real, normal girl. Which is what I need because my life isn't normal.
Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.
More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.
I wrote a song at age five about algae on the pond by our house, then the next 'real' song was in fifth grade about an unrequited crush.
There's a Marvel superhero called Black Bolt & his real name is Blackagar Boltagon & that really tells you a lot about superhero comics.
The best thing about a British winter is the cold weather, real fires, frosty mornings. I love living somewhere that has proper seasons.
On the other hand [making a string of one-off episodes], there's a real freedom, because you're kind of reinventing the show every week.
There's an old Southern saying that if you're worried about your weight, clothes, or getting old, then you don't have any real problems.
If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.
It's great fun to memorize somebody's biography, and then liberally play with the real facts of their life and go a step beyond reality.
The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.
If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.
I advise women to invest in real estate. It is the collateral to be preferred above all others, and the safest means of investing money.
Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.
I would like to see Russia not invade Ukraine or put pressure on and threaten Baltic states. But we live in the real and existing world.
I need the concept of mercy for me to have some semblance of self-admiration. So in real life, I'm probably somebody who is more devout.
If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.
If they don't go to law school, bright college graduates head to Wall Street precisely because they have no real plan for their careers.
The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight.
The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing.
Ignoring a Reality doesn't make it less Real. It's still going to happen. Being unprepared for something doesn't stop it from happening.
our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create.
The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.
Handsome, fictional men were so much easier to stomach than real life ones who smelled of Christmas and looked like a Calvin Klein model
Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.
She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.
"Strong" to people means "real." It means you believe that's a person who exists, as opposed to some two-dimensional depiction of women.
Although there are real hazards in saying yes to life, they are inconsequential when compared to the regrets that come with saying "no".