Top 1200 Realistic Fiction Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

You cannot design shoes if you only think about fashion; it's too realistic. When I design, I dream.

Fiction is more dangerous than nonfiction because it can seduce better. I think we all know this, know that deeper truths can be approached in fiction than in fact. There are risks for the reader, because after reading certain books you find you have changed irreversibly. There are risks for writers: in China, now, and Ethiopia and other countries right now, writers face real persecution.

If you're going to write thrillers, you have to make a decision if you are going to be realistic or go off and over.

How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.

I think planning to be a "professional adventurer" is about as realistic as planning to be a basketball player, so I don't usually encourage it.

The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.

It's unfortunate that it's not realistic that you can get people to come to a movie theater not knowing anything about the movie.

You can have a lot of destruction, but in a realistic female movie, the women are going to be aware of that destruction and apologizing for it.

I liked being in the Marines. They gave me discipline I could live with. By the time I got out, I was able to cope with things on a more realistic level.

I don't think most of our films should be realistic, but you want that as an artistic possibility. Then, the artist can take the realism of the world and push it in ways that we can connect with.

Don't mistake the Russia you want to exist for the Russia that there actually is. Be realistic.

We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.

I'm a realistic person, but I'm also a person who believes a lot in goals.

We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy?

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

For my wife and I, the challenge is to not make every day the best day possible because it's not realistic.

I am a realistic type of guy. I am my biggest critic.

The widespread adoption of broadband and the continued advances in personal computing technology are finally making it possible for the collective creation of an online world on a realistic scale.

To be a proactive person, you must learn to say no to most ideas and opportunities so you have the mental and physical bandwidth to execute the realistic business plans you have already mapped out.

The only way to make a scene realistic is to do it the way you know it would really happen.

Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.

Courage is rarely reckless or foolish... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.

I always critique myself but I'm realistic - I know I can do better but I'm never that hard on myself, either.

I don't believe [monogamy] is realistic. But, I believe that we, as people, have the power to make it happen.

Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties - all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name's Dave and I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, really deep serious sex, and, in various ways, religion - these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.

There's a part of me that wishes no one knew anything about me, but it's just not realistic.

You cannot design shoes if you only think about fashion; its too realistic. When I design, I dream.

We live on two levels ... the realistic level and the fantastic level, and which is the real one, really?

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

Making the visuals photo-realistic lets us do things we were never able to do before. The voice acting, the facial expressions, are all that much deeper.

Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.

When you're not doing fiction, there's a limit to how much illustrating you can do with your work. I mean, you can do fine. There are great non-fiction writers, but people aren't necessarily going to say anything that reveals them as much as a picture might. Even their surroundings, in lot of cases, the things that meant the most to me were the things I noticed in their houses. I was always looking, as much as I was listening to them. I was looking around for clues as to why I was there.

Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory.

In Mahesh Manjrekar's films, women find their way into a realistic story in the most convincing way.

I was criticised for making 'Devdas' so ostentatious. But stark and realistic cinema isn't the only real cinema in this country.

Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.

Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science.

After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s, and I haven't changed my style since.

We need better public education and more realistic education.

I always thought realistic was a better way to explain things that were "dramedies" because life is like that. It's funny, it's dramatic and to me that's how I see it.

One would expect an actress to stand onscreen mostly as a caricature. If she would say, "I'm selling shoes," you would believe her. She says it and it creates this fiction, non-fiction perception of the film. People believe it because she says it. If she said, "I'm a butcher," people would believe it too, I think.

Our rational, realistic goals for 'Better Call Saul' were simply that it wouldn't suck, and it wouldn't embarrass us. It didn't rise much higher than that, to be honest.

People are realistic enough to appreciate what the market values of different people are.

It's hard for me to consider something in cinema or theater as something realistic.

Dad always said that he had enough trouble sorting the fiction out of so-called facts, without reading fiction. He always said that science was already too muddled without trying to make it jibe with religion. He said those things, but he also said that science itself could be a religion, that a broad mind was always in danger of becoming narrow.

We have to be realistic: we are not going to be able to deport 11 million people - most are hard-working people.

Great fiction has been written out of the very darkest circumstances of our narco violence, and nothing written in either fiction or nonfiction has penetrated that darkness so memorably - you can even say beautifully, a relentless riveting forensic dark beauty that some readers in fact find themselves unable to endure - as Roberto Bolaño's 2666. Especially in "The Part about the Crimes." But here's the thing: nobody would call 2666 a "narco novel."

Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It's as simple as that.

When you find theater writing like in the theater on film but it's realistic, it doesn't matter who the character is, you want to do it.

I wanted to be an actor as a kid, and a lot of people would tell you to be realistic, but from a young age, our parents really realized that Jonathan and I were so driven.

I'm very realistic about who's coming to my defense. I am my defense.

There aren't a lot of films about adolescents or quote-unquote coming-of-age films that are realistic nowadays.

We will never stop illegal immigration until this country has a comprehensive, realistic immigration policy.

Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world's potential for just being totally a randomly bad place.

I'm not a Democrat; I'm something well to the left of a Democrat, but I'm just realistic about the system.

My expectations are greater than the average fan's but, I'm more realistic than the top prognosticators.

I have a lot of friends who have nothing to do with the acting profession and they really liked seeing a woman of their age being represented on TV in what they felt to be a very realistic manner.

It is a lot more difficult to make a typical Bollywood film than a realistic film.

Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential. And to do that, I insist you throw caution to the wind, ignore the pleas of parents, coaches, spouses, and bosses to be "realistic."