M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.
When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.
I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.
Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Now having said that, I realize that releasing a film in the real world is like trying to get General Motors to release a handmade car.
The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.
I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments.
I don't think there's any real motivation for somebody to be a truck driver. Mine was simple; dad was a truck driver, I wanted to own one.
I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
The growth that we want is one that brings real benefits to the people, raises quality and efficiency of development, and contributes to energy conservation and environmental protection.
It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.
Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
When you're just starting out, and someone you think is a real storyteller says something good about you, that helps.
The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.
Distance is a bad excuse for not having a good relationship with somebody. It's the determination to keep it going or let it fall by the wayside; that's the real reason that the relationships continue.
If it looks good, you'll see it. If it sounds good, you'll hear it. If its marketed right, you'll buy it. But... If its real... you'll feel it.
Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested.
