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Quotes About Real

My intention is to show the real face of Islam. I see it as a threat.
~ Geert Wilders
In my time at Milan, the club played with a 4-3-1-2 formation, and I was the player behind the two strikers. At Real, I play behind three. There is a greater defensive obligation, but I try to work around the area.
~ Kaka
The first time I saw my look on a real person was in Paris, and I felt a little shock, a little thrill that went through my body. And that thrill never goes away - never.
~ Prabal Gurung
The thrill of acting is making a character real. Modeling is the opposite of real. It's being fake in front of the camera.
~ Cara Delevingne
It's always thrilling to encounter the sweep of time in a work of fiction in a way that feels authentic and real.
~ Michael Chabon
The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I've maintained the mentality of a musician throughout it all, which I'm proudest of. And I'm still playing on people's records and singing on people's records.
~ Vince Gill
There's something about seeing someone who has actually no real supernatural powers and only being able to throw things with precision that kind of makes people be like, 'Oh, I can see that. I can put that person in real life, and I can see it play out as a human being.'
~ David Castaneda
Inflation is not an abstract idea thrown around by finance gurus. Inflation is a very real threat to the pocketbooks of hardworking Americans throughout our great country.
~ Tommy Tuberville
You hear the word 'fake' thrown around wrestling, but it doesn't get more real when you hear the sound of 20,000 people coming unglued.
~ Sean Waltman
Literature throws us many great heroes. Real life invariably outdoes them.
~ Wilbur Smith
It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do.
~ Robert B. Laughlin
We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean.
~ Thomas Bulfinch
Figuring out what made 'American Psycho' tick, it was such a fun script to work on, especially when we got an audience. Everything about it was so dark and yet ABSURD. I played Evelyn, and balancing what made her real and ridiculous was incredibly rewarding.
~ Helene Yorke
I think really good drama comes down to real human emotion. That's what makes us all tick, and that's what I've always been drawn to when it comes to scripts is real human emotion and dealing with that.
~ Kaya Scodelario
I had a high school girlfriend whose mother gave us theater tickets, so I saw the second night performance of 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' My girl and I could not get up during intermission, we were so stunned. To this day it's the only thing I've seen on stage that's 100 percent real and 100 percent poetic simultaneously.
~ Mike Nichols
Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace.
~ Saint Augustine
[H]e had a strange sense of being haunted, a feeling that the shades of his imagination were stepping out into the real world, that destiny was acquiring the slow, fatal logic of a dream. 'Now I know what a ghost is,' he thought. 'Unfinished business, that's what.'
~ Salman Rushdie
When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.
~ Samantha Morton
For moviegoers to get the idea of real combat, you'd have to shoot at them every so often from either side of the screen.
~ Samuel Fuller
The man of affectation may, perhaps, be reclaimed, by finding how little he is likely to gain by perpetual constraint and incessant vigilance, and how much more securely he might make his way to esteem, by cultivating real, than by displaying counter
~ Samuel Johnson
Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation, or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances
~ Samuel Johnson
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sigh. Here's another fine woman that historians can't believe was real. Of course she was real. Not only is there a splendid Chinese poem called "The Ballad of Mulan", there is also n excellent cartoon by Disney.
~ Sandi Toksvig
People think love is, you know, this spiritual thing," the lama said. "This feeling. But that's not my thing. In my book, love is a physical act. Love is not ethereal. Love is sticking by someone when they're in the nuthouse. Love is when you keep calling someone even when they don't call you back. Love is dirty and solid. Love is, you know, earth and shit and blood and hair.
~ Sara Gran