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Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.

David R. Brower

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David R. Brower
American - Environmentalist
July 1, 1912 - November 5, 2000

'Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.

David R. Brower

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

Federico Fellini

It is not realistic, maybe ... but art doesn't have to be realistic. Romeo and Juliet is not realistic, but it is true... it shows the essence of falling in love.

Jan Harlan

You can almost convince yourself that you've accomplished things just by thinking about them. The alternative is to be more realistic. You don't necessarily regard the dreaming process as bad or an obstacle, but it's not realistic enough.

Chogyam Trungpa

All the rest of the world uses the word electricity. They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!

Mao Zedong

When you're dealing with a symbol in a realistic play, it is also a realistic fact. You must expect the audience's mind to work on both levels, symbolically and realistically. But we're trained so much in pure, realistic theater that it's difficult for us to handle things on two levels at the same time.

Edward Albee

I think my movies aren't sentimental. I think my movies are funny and sad and realistic. Not realistic in the sense that they're documentaries, but realistic in the sense that they're not idealistic, they're not optimistic, not pessimistic, and not propagandistic. They're an analysis of a situation. I call it as I see it, so to speak.

Frederick Wiseman

Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity. Why would you be realistic? What's the point of being realistic? I'm going to do it. It's done. It's already done. The second I decide it's done, it's already done.

Will Smith

I was giving up--being realistic, as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being realistic made me feel bitter.

Tobias Wolff

I'm realistic about my age and realistic about the fact that there's an awful lot less in front of me than there is behind me. I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

Roger Daltrey

Coming back from doing 'The Hobbit,' you think 'Sherlock' is realistic, but of course, it's not that realistic.

Martin Freeman

I think all you can do is prepare properly for every game but you also have to be realistic. Be realistic about what you are as a team.

Chris Hughton

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

Hubert H. Humphrey

I question every word; I write 'the' and immediately feel scorn. It's such an ordinary word - everybody uses it - why can't I come up with something original? In the sunlight, every single word seems hackneyed.

Jeff Lindsay

I think everybody wants to be loved, all the time, but it's not realistic. It's also not realistic, if you're going to be ambitious, in terms of changing the form or evolving.

Mitchell Hurwitz

People who complain often say things like, 'I'm not being negative, I'm just being realistic.' Really? How is it anymore 'realistic' to focus on and talk about things that discourage us and make us feel bad, than to focus on and talk about the POSITIVE aspects of life that make us feel GOOD? Both area equally REALISTIC, but which you choose to dwell on has a very different impact on the quality of YOUR life.

Hal Elrod

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