Be Real Quotes

Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.

I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.

'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

The real is empty and the empty real

Obviously, I think it was an aberration, but it is a reality. We're still a team that won nine games, but this one was a real shock.

Reality television is less honest than YouTube. YouTube is the real reality.

I'm tired. I am old and I have never quit pursuing my goals. I am heavily involved in real estate right now, but I am trying to get out of it altogether, I am just tired.

American Hustle shows the FBI making real-life bribes to Washington politicians. I know, because as your U.S. senator, I turned them down.

Besides, REAL computers have a rename system call.

Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.

As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.

[Depp] has real ambitions, but he is deeply afraid of being considered pretentious.

You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin

In fact, I think every book I've written has been inspired by a real event.

Yes, Louise Brooks was beautiful and intelligent, and she could be very funny, but obviously there was a deep insecurity there, a real destructive rage and immaturity.

In terms of acting, we go through phases of being really inspired by film and television and actors and works that we've read.

I don't like writing with real people in mind.

I'm not real big on repentence ... I like revenge better.

Every religion has demons.... Nothing like a real, live demon to give you some of that old-time religion.

Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they’re real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.' - Chang Bibi to Anita

the real stakes in the theater are high - they are life stakes. That's what I love about it. You gamble with your life, and that's a gamble worth taking.

Real’ is a dirty word in this place.

The mark of the procedure. A real one. Lu is cured.

When I go to see something I'm in, or my friends are in, it's like a home movie. When I just go to the movies and don't know anyone in it, then it's a real movie.

How often have I tried just hard enough so that I can then say to myself that I tried with the real purpose of assuaging my guilt about something I did not wish to succeed in the first place?

I'm focused on solving the problem that would make it plausible for gov't to get back to solving real problems.

The real thing that physics tell us about the universe is that it's big, rare event happens all the time — including life — and that doesn't mean it's special.

With uncertainty in oil markets, a buildup of speculative pressures and the large U.S. current account deficit, there is a real possibility that Paulson's crisis-management skills will be tested.

The Web ultimately is a medium used by real offline people, and as such, it'll probably be whatever we are.

Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.

Of course, there are always going to be some unsettled areas, but for me the overall evidence for Christianity chases away any real doubt that it's true.

Wearing a real corset doesn't make you look thin! It just makes you look like you're going to pass out! Also it doesn't actually shape your body in any positive way.

I've never thought of myself as an actor, so somebody recognizing me for that would be a real shock.

I think that social networking makes people more connected, yet more distant, so there are people with less ties to real friend groups and less a sense of self.

With fantasy and sci-fi, it's based in a real fandom. You're presenting to experts, and their source material is really important to them.

There is only the moment. The now. Only what you are experiencing at this second is real.

The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.

The real goal of physics is to come up with an equation that could explain the universe but still be small enough to fit on a T-shirt

Love can't mature in one room. It has to come out of the full sharing of everything: joys, aspirations, downfalls, all of it. That's the only real path to love.

I've always wanted to be the biggest real estate man to come down the pike.

I'd love to be on 'Glee.' I'd love to play a rebel. Be a real biker chick in leather and covered in tattoos.

Real people are places to me as much as persons: I want to see them, as I want to see the places I am fond of, in all weathers and at all times of the year.

Now I'm in real trouble. First my laundry called and said they lost my shirt and then my broker said the same thing.

The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain.

"Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."

The real secret is to build an organization that isn't afraid to make changes while it is still successful, before change becomes imperative for survival.

This metropolitan world, then, is a world where flesh and blood is less real than paper and ink and celluloid.

It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded.

I will never become a director or a movie producer. I was always looking at picture directing because I didn't know what to do! You can't be a movie director without real preparation.

I've made many films and only a few times I've played real people.