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Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained.
When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.
Depression leads him close to his wounds, but only the mourning for what he has missed, missed at the crucial time, can lead to real healing.
I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.
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.
There are moments that I`ve had some real brilliance, you know. But I think they are moments. And sometimes, in a career, moments are enough.
Counting obligations under Medicare and Social Security, the real debt of the United States is more than 10 times the reported national debt.
It's so fun to play something that feels reckless - not all the time, but I really must be acting out something that I can't do in real life.
There are some places that have had real quarrels with the United States' policies, but I think the country is very well-respected worldwide.
There were a lot of running backs as good as me. The real difference was that I could focus. I never laid back and relied on natural ability.
This is not just about women. We men need to recognize the part we play, too. Real men treat women with the dignity and respect they deserve.
And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.
Space and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect, and space is divided for him into dimensions; time, into past, present, and future.
It feels real good to look at some of the guys who have played before me, then come in and break a record. But records are made to be broken.
Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.
The creation of a virtual image is a form of accident. This explains why virtual reality is a cosmic accident. It's the accident of the real.
The Women of the Storm made a big difference for me, because it really put some real-life faces with the situation, and not just politicians.
The real 'Lord of the Flies' is a tale of friendship and loyalty; one that illustrates how much stronger we are if we can lean on each other.
Lunch is like, my first real meal of the day. I cannot eat anything in the morning, my body...I can only eat about two hours after I wake up.
Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing.
There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.
Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin.
You know, I'm not real tall. I'm 6'0, 6'½, but I think people think I'm shorter than I am because I'm not the most muscular cat in the world.
I suppose Phil Collins offers something for everybody, and in hipdom that's not cool. But in the real world, there's no shame in that at all.
It was, at last, real life, with my heart safe and condemned to die of happy love in the joyful agony of any day after my hundredth birthday.
I'm not afraid to have a character say, 'I am a Christian,' or, 'I believe in God,' because I think they represent real people on this Earth.
You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.
Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.
The preoccupation with transition and with surgery objectifies trans people, and we don't get to really deal with the real lived experiences.
I always wondered if you clone your wife and have the cloned wife on the moon and the real wife down here, would that be considered cheating?
Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
I generally have a real strong idea or a strong punchline, and I just try to get to it by rambling around, as I don't like to memorize words.
...we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real.
One of the great things going on right now is social media and you get a real sense, immediately, about what people are feeling and thinking.
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
We've got a real problem with social media that we didn't know we were going to have. It's almost like the demons have gotten out of the box.
I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.
America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.
If a character dies, you get to do a big, juicy death scene. But the flip side is you're out of the sequel, which is where the real money is.
In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.
The real wealth, not only of America, but of the world, is in the resources of the ground we stand on, and in the resources of the humankind.
To make a real independent film where the filmmaker is in charge creatively, one must sacrifice personal, financial, and physical well-being.
If God is real, and I believe he is, then he is outside of nature. He is, therefore, not limited by the laws of nature in the way that we are.
Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.
The majority of us do not enthrone God, we enthrone common sense. We make our decisions and then ask the real God to bless our God's decision.
With those kinds of statistics, there are real concerns that cannot be explained away other than race. How long do we turn a blind eye to it?.
It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa.
We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'
It is a real issue, a measurement of our society, when we say it's fine to destroy unborn life who has a heartbeat at 16 days post-conception.
When I'm on camera, I have to do things pretty much the way I do things in everyday life. It gives the audience someone real to identify with.