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Quotes About Realism

If this were fiction, as I said, it would be too much, but it is true.
~ Alice Munro
Pa dobro. Bilo bi isto da se opet sretnemo. Ili ?ak i da se ne sretnemo. Ljubav koja se ne može iskoristiti, ljubav koja zna svoje mesto. (Neki bi rekli, ljubav koja nije realna, jer se nikada ne bi izložila opasnosti da joj zavrnu šiju, da o njoj pri?aju neslane viceve, niti da se tužno istroši). Ljubav koja ništa ne rizikuje, a ipak živi, kap po kap, kao podzemna žila. S težinom ove nove tišine, s takvim pe?atom.
~ Alice Munro
I find hope is best abandoned early,' muttered Temple.
~ Joe Abercrombie
This is the North," muttered Clover. "Who hasn't killed a friend or two?
~ Joe Abercrombie
but in the end Logen had earned their trust, and their respect, and their friendship even. Small gestures and a lot of time, that was how he'd done it. "Patience is the chief of virtues," his father used to say, and "you won't cross the mountains in a day." Time might be against them, but there was nothing to be gained by rushing. You have to be realistic about these things.
~ Joe Abercrombie
To fight my enemies I need friends behind me, and I'm clean out of friends. You have to be realistic. It's been a while since my ambitions went beyond getting through each day alive.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Sooner or later, you have to stop expecting folk to bend around your plans and fit your plans to the folk you've got.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Nothing but a drizzle. The sun can't always shine. You have to be realistic!
~ Joe Abercrombie
It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life
~ Joe Hill
every fictional world was a work of fantasy, and whenever writers introduce a threat or a conflict into their story, they create the possibility of horror. He had been drawn to horror fiction, he said, because it took the most basic elements of literature and pushed them to their extremes. All fiction was make-believe, which made fantasy more valid (and honest) than realism. He
~ Joe Hill
The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.
~ Joel Coen
'The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it's still exciting. It's about real people and it doesn't shy from the painful points of life.
~ Joel Kinnaman
As good as the people are in your life, there are no perfect people. There is no perfect boss, no perfect friend, no perfect neighbor, no perfect spouse. Give people room to be human. Quit expecting them to perform perfectly all the time.
~ Joel Osteen
I said I would never leave you, but come on. What are you, new?
~ Joey Comeau
There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.
~ Larry David
When you first start to practice positive thinking, tell no one, go to it realistically, stop dwelling on your difficulties, your sorrows. Radiate the happiness you reall want in your life.
~ Albert E Cliffe
It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable.
~ Anne Lamott
What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.
~ Voltaire
My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
~ Natalie Portman
Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
~ Epictetus
Scripts are corny and predictable. Real life is always better.
~ Lauren Conrad
In real life, events seem much less dramatic.
~ Jessica Savitch
I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.
~ Alberto Sordi
The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
~ Ben Stein