Real Quotes
On staying grounded in what's real.
This set plays with double meanings, from researchers chasing clever ideas over practical relevance to a footballer's memories of a transfer away from a famous Spanish club. For more on genuine feeling, see Like.
The problem with real estate is that it's local. You have to understand the local market.
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If I have cash and I can't figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.
Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view.
One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition that would be impractical or unethical to conduct in real life.
Science fiction is about things that plausibly might happen. Grounding my work in the real world helps make that clear.
This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent people are very well-coordinated.
And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half, interviewing people coming out of China, both Westerners and Chinese. And that was my first real research study...
It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.
For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me.
The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting. Realism degrades and impoverishes.
In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius.
It's real simple - we all have nightmares, and the idea you can be in real jeopardy in them is a great gimmick. It's universal.
I was on the cusp - or thought I was on the cusp - of celebrity, the result of starring as an adorable curly-haired alien in the miniseries 'V' on NBC. 'V' was a hit, and then got green-lit as...
One week, you can have a real heavy romance 'Chuck' episode, and the next week it can be some kind of murdery mystery. It's not like doing a procedural.
You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.
The Bible was not written for entertainment purposes, so it's a real hodgepodge and a compendium of all kinds of stuff.
