We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.
It's a journey, it's a fight everyday. There was a real effort to stay in the program... So far this has been a very successful rehab.
I think that Stevie Nicks is one of the greats. Steve Nicks and Grace Slick and Janis Joplin have the real rock voices, to me.
There is no real need for decorations when throwing a barbecue party - let the summer garden, in all its vibrant and luscious splendour, speak for itself.
Some people talk of Africa being a continent cursed not blessed with minerals, but the real curse is the leaders and politicians of Africa
We made this movie for $17, and nobody got anything. So it never dawned on me that we would get real people.
'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.
There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their laptops, then they're not real writers. That's ridiculous.
For months I've been working on creating techniques to reproduce Swarovski crystals in sugar using the real stones to guide me.
In real football, I wouldn't want Terrell Owens anywhere near my team. But you're nuts if you don't take him in fantasy.
In order to make characters real - no matter what the character is doing - you have to see yourself as capable of having done that.
Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That's hard enough.
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.
It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.
Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.
For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me.
When my problems seem overwhelming and impossible to solve, I hold fast to these facts: God is real, He is right, and He cares.
Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.
I had a dream about you; I’ve had multiple dreams about you. If I had to choose between the real you and the dream you then…Goodnight.
The fantasy world, the 'Game of Thrones' world, the forgotten realms worlds - they're the type of worlds I've always wanted to live in. Where vampires, dragons, dwarves and elves are real.
The real intimidating stuff is the scene where you show up for the first day. You kind of square off, and that is where you look each other in the eye.
