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Sidney Poitier quote: "Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real."
Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real. Sidney Poitier
George R. R. Martin quote: "That night the wind was howling almost like a wolf and there..."
That night the wind was howling almost like a wolf and there were some real wolves off to the west giving it lessons. George R. R. Martin
The whole scene had an imaginary quality to it. I knew that it was real, but at the same time it was better than reality, more nearly a projection of what I wanted from reality than anything I had experienced before. Paul Auster
Susannah." My dance partner's breath was soft against my cheek. "Susannah...."Yeah. In my dreams. In real life, the voice calling my name wasn't a bit masculine. That's because it belonged to a twelve-year-old boy. Meg Cabot
Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer to it, more its neighbor, than in the unreal half-artistic professions, which, while they pretend to be close to art, in practice deny and attack the existence of all art - as, for example, all of journalism does and almost all criticism and three quarters of what is called (and wants to be called) literature. Rainer Maria Rilke
Marcovaldo learned to pile the snow into a compact little wall. If he went on making little walls like that, he could build some street for himself alone; only he would know where these streets led, and everybody else would be lost there. He would remake the city, pile up mountains high as houses, which no one would be able to tell from real houses. But perhaps by now all the houses ha turned to snow, inside and out, a whole city of snow and with monuments and spires and trees, a city could... Italo Calvino
It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience. Fyodor Dostoevsky
I used to have pink hair," I told Seven."I used to have a real job," he answered."What happened?"He shrugged. "I dyed my hair pink. What happened to you? Jodi Picoult
I’ll be real discreet,” Tank said. As discreet as a six-foot-six, no-neck guy weighing three hundred and fifty pounds, all dressed in black SWAT clothes, with a Glock holstered at his side could be. Janet Evanovich
There's a peculiar dichotomy in the nature of almost anyone who calls himself a historian. Such scholars all piously assure us that they're telling us the real truth about what really happened, but if you turn any competent historian over and look at his damp underside, you'll find a storyteller, and you can believe me when I tell you that no storyteller's ever going to tell a story without a few embellishments. Add to that the fact that we've all got assorted political and theological... David Eddings
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: "It might be that he lived a more real life within his thoughts..."
It might be that he lived a more real life within his thoughts... Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ralph W. Sockman quote: "Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as..."
Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength. Ralph W. Sockman
I know this is not a very popular idea. You don't hear it too often any more? but it's the truth. I have taken drugs before and? I had a real good time. Sorry. Didn't murder anybody, didn't rape anybody, didn't rob anybody, didn't beat anybody, didn't lose? hmm? one fucking job, laughed my ass off, and went about my day. Sorry. Now, where's my commercial? Bill Hicks
She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet searchingly. She scrutinized his face to make up for the time she had not seen him. She compared, as she did at every interview with him, the image her fancy painted of him (incomparably finer than, and impossible in actual existence) with his real self Leo Tolstoy
Jeanette Winterson quote: "The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of..."
The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life. Jeanette Winterson

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