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When something feels real, you don’t make any apologies for it. When it feels good to you, nothing else matters. Everything else is just noise.
Science is important, but so is ethics, so is balancing life. To destroy life to save life - it's one of the real ethical dilemmas that we face.
If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and know that part isn't real.
Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.
I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn`t quite of the real world.
I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.
Brad [Pitt], poor geezer, was blown up, thrown around, burned, slapped, frozen. But never a moan or a whine. Now that's what I call a real star.
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.
You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.
Your real being only flowers with unconditional love. Ambition is against love. Anything that is against love is against you and your real life.
I'm a fabulous date, I make sure I look good, I like hearing what a guy has to say and I make sure the evening is a real laugh. I like to laugh.
A real writer can be recognized by the fact he doesn't find words. Therefore he must search for them and while doing that, he finds better ones.
If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.
The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.
Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live with - and it lasts a lifetime.
The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.
Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
A real leader has the ability to motivate others to their highest level of achievement; then gives them the opportunity and the freedom to grow.
In a career playing heroes, I learned a little about the real thing. A hero stands up-for himself, for herself, but most importantly for others.
The body image took a real battering. I had really not taken on board how I would feel dressed in a flimsy dress in front of millions of people.
If you want to know the real meaning of pornography, it is the utter dissociation of love and sex, the banishment of love from the sexual arena.
Taking baths in Africa was a real challenge at times. I got real dirty, and sometimes I stayed like that for 2 days. That was pretty hard going.
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
ONCE UPON A TIME when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith.Valentine Michael Smith was as real as taxes but he was a race of one.
There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.
From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.
The real crucial link in the international exchange is the last three feet, which is bridged by personal contact, one person talking to another.
I try to photograph what can't be photographed - psychological or subjective reality, which seems more real than physical or consensual reality.
I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people who destroy books.
Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.
The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.
You know that question: What do you do when you think the client's guilty? The real question is: What you do when you think a client's innocent?
When I was a kid and I would play pretend, I would end up with blood everywhere and I would cut my feet up. I love the feeling of it being real.
To be a real man is to be unattached - not from responsibility or justice - but from those dependencies that inhibit responsibility and justice.
What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.
Acting becomes my real job, writing becomes my second job, and then when I turn 50, I think I'm going to open up an interior decorating company.
To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves.
After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that very tendency.
You may have thousands of lives to go between now and before you're a real hard-core seeker of enlightenment, hardcore meaning you just love it.
Somewhere inside we do know everything about ourselves. There is no real forgetting. Perhaps we know somewhere, too, about all there is to come.
In the real world, banks hang onto their money for fear of making bad loans, no matter how many bailouts or stimulus packages Washington passes.
If you're going to have a character appear in a story long enough to sell a newspaper, he'd better be real enough that you can smell his breath.
To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic.
In real life, people end up doing things because it's convenient and it works for them. You don't get up every day regretting what you're doing.
Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.
By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, he may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal.
Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.
The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels.
Dying to your own attachments is a beautiful death. Because this death releases you into real life. You have to die as a seed to live as a tree.
I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds.