The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness.
The fiction I'm most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.
I didn't want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing.
You can be inspired by others, but when you're inspired from within then you have real power for change.
How does it feel being a woman's weakness? I mean a real woman. I mean a real weakness.
Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.
I just feel so fortunate, A, that I'm able to talk to people and B, keep in contact with my real friends.
wounds make you awake in the memories but tears makes tough and dry in real life.
However, the real beauty is not in the words themselves, but in the listener that has the power to understand them.
'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
Don't you just hate it when real life gets in the way of your own reality.
What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject.
On twitter, you may have a zero follower; but in real life, this is not possible because everyone has a shadow!
If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.
A problem isn't a real problem till you decide to make it a problem... so what's the problem again?
If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.
I'm a huge fan of Richard Curtis - there's real grief, real compassion in his films as well as cheekiness; it's a wonderful cocktail.
Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you have nothing real to do.
I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.
And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.
What's real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.
