Top 1200 Realistic Fiction Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I think it's true that that's something that poetry can go to school on fiction. I think poetry can go to fiction to learn.

I've put my days of fantasy behind me and make authentic realistic films.

A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.

What I want you to know is that 'Zero Dark Thirty' is a dramatization, not a realistic portrayal of the facts.

I'm getting older. That's realistic. I can't reverse time. I can slow it down a little bit.

I know I'm on a small cable reality show. I'm realistic where I stand in the scheme of things.

There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I know that I'm using a bunch of lies that I've made up to create some form of truth. When I write a memoir, I'm using true elements to create something that will always be somehow fictionalized.

Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic...'

There is absolutely no Wuxia or martial arts in 'Red Cliff.' I want all the action to look realistic.

I do not allow fan-fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan-fiction with my characters. I advise my readers to write your own original stories with your own characters. It is absolutely essential that you respect my wishes.

I'm such a huge sports video game fan. These games are getting so realistic, it's amazing.

I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing poetry; I don't want to write fiction that's about the irresponsibility of writing fiction and I've thrown out a lot of writing that I think was ultimately tainted by that kind of self-awareness.

Basically, it was important to break the belief that commercial filmmakers can't make realistic movies. I broke it.

Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose?

I have a very realistic image of what marriage should be. It takes effort, but it shouldn't be the hardest thing that you do.

God is the true realistic point where human reason mostly, if not completely, breaks down.

If I want to do realistic cinema and convince the audience in authentic roles, I have to walk the extra mile.

The people who do the most extraordinary things in the world are never "realistic." They're passionate. They trust themselves.

When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live longer.

When everything does seem out of control, writing fiction is a way I can order that chaos and restore some sort of meaning. I like the playful aspect of writing fiction. You know how it is when we are kids and we make up our worlds: You be this guy, and I am going to be this guy, and we are going to go slay dragons.

If we are realistic and forget team loyalties, you cannot compare Messi with any other player.

People have told me that the dialogue in '100 Bullets' is very realistic. I don't agree.

I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious.

I always wanted to be part of a realistic film where there is less to act and more to live.

'Teachers' is in no way a realistic soap; we're not trying to do that, which is why we never do 'issues.'

I probably spend more time writing than reading science fiction. I find that science-fiction literature is so reactive to all the literature that's gone before that it's sort of like a fractal. It's gone to a level of detail that the average person could not possibly follow unless you're a fan. It iterates upon many prior generations of iterations.

At the end of the day, at 49 years old, it's realistic to believe that a Terminator has a heart.

As an actor, it's my job to prepare myself for a role. If the character is realistic, one can't go wrong.

At Chicago Hope they have a technical staff that works real hard to make that O.R. as realistic as possible.

I could not have been a rapper in 1985 and thought, 'I want to be a millionaire.' That was not a realistic dream.

With something that's not based just in comedy, you can be a bit weirder in a slightly realistic way.

I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.

I am not in Bollywood for item songs. I have to do some meaty roles and realistic films.

I wish a book could reach as many people as film, but we have to be realistic about it.

In my mind, if you write a comedy where human beings experience pain, you're just being realistic.

I tend to listen to music more than I read. I need to get into reading a bit more. The stuff I tend to read is usually non-fiction books more than fiction, but I've been trying to power my way through Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment,' and I do enjoy it.

I went to school in California, at Stanford when I was seventeen, and I lived in San Francisco until I was twenty-three, and then I lived in Hungary for, like, a summer, and then I went to Iowa for three years. At Iowa, I actually did the fiction program, not poetry. I was a fiction writer for a long time before I was 'out' as a poet.

We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions.

Mostly the natural landscapes work as a sounding board for my characters, so they can understand themselves, and it acts as a mirror in which we readers see ourselves. The natural world is the place into which all my characters have to situate themselves in order to be who they really are, and that makes my rural fiction feel different from a lot of urban fiction.

My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph.

If there isn't a team that plays my type of game I don't think I could make a big difference. I have to be realistic.

I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea.

Marseille would be the only place that I'd like to play in France, but I think it's not realistic.

I think that the most important thing when it comes to achieving your dreams is just that you have to be realistic.

Morning can always be counted on to bring us back to a more realistic level.

To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.

I'm realistic. Getting to everybody is not the goal here. The people you can affect in any way - that's who you want to get to.

I may still be a kind of a Marxist but I'm very realistic, I don't have these dreams of revolutionists around the corner.

As an actor, one should be aware of all their capabilities. This is important, as films are becoming more realistic.

Be realistic with your expectations. I'd really like to cuddle a unicorn, but it aint going to happen.

In, 1950, at the age, 19 I dropped out of St. George William College in Montreal, as it then was, and sailed for England on the Franconia. Foolishly, no arrogantly, believing I could put Canada and its picayune problems behind me, never dreaming it would become the raw material of most of my fiction and non-fiction. Or that I would care so deeply about its surviving intact.

Any realistic vision of change must be based on the notion of empowerment of people.

I have tried being surreal, but my frogs hop right back into their realistic ponds.

I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.

In my teens and university and stuff, video games became more realistic, or they started to.

If I'm watching a heavy drama and there's no moment of people laughing, I always think that's not realistic.

Ultimately, you have to meet a realistic setting on screen with some imagination as a viewer, as that is what creates a story.

I never thought I'd be on T.V. For me as a kid in Liverpool, it was a more realistic option to be a singer.

The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.