Quotes About Realism

But the wisest person in the room, or around the negotiating table, knows enough not to fall prey to naïve realism and simply assume that meanings are fixed, and shared

No more good must be attempted than the people can bear.

El apego es una actitud que sobrestima las cualidades de un objeto o una persona y después se aferra a ella. En otras palabras, proyectamos sobre las personas y los objetos cualidades que no poseen, o exageramos las que poseen. El apego es una visión poco realista y por ello nos causa confusión.

We mustn't settle for a Sunday-school picture of Jesus dressed in a sparkling white robe surrounded by happy children. He was a real person, living in a world of dirt, pain, and frustration.

It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming. It's easier to raise $1,000,000 than it is $100,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.

In a street fight situation, there's no weight division, there's no time limits.

I want to play a wife who cheats on her husband, or just a normal person who isn't an angel, because I am far from an angel.

Most Hindi movies tend to dramatise events. They are very dialogue heavy. Characters don't speak like people normally do in real life.

If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'Well, everything was awesome.' No, everything was not awesome!

I'm not interested in 'lovey dovey,' everything is so great in the world. That doesn't interest me at all.

I'm not interested in a character's goodness. I'm interested in what makes them human.

It works better if your lead character is complex and interesting and not perfect.

If you're not perfect, don't expect the other guys to be perfect.

No marriage is perfect. How can it be, when as human beings we are not perfect?

I didn't want to just watch a woman who was getting it right all the time. We're not perfect.

You're not always going to look super glamorous in the morning when you wake up. Everything's not perfect.

For me, I guess I feel like the notion of 'feel good' entertainment... I'm all for it, but I just think you really, really, really have to earn it. I'm not sure I have a lot of movies in me where I see a world that earns it.

If you look back at Disney's 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' or 'Pocahontas,' animated films were trying to get more and more real before CG really arrived.

Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207

I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass.

She'd stood by that creed. No softness, because the world wasn't soft; lots of laughter, because if you were in on the joke, the joke couldn't be on you; And no wanting what you couldn't take, because the world never gave. Or so she'd thought.