Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
Americans love a morality tale, especially one that's been taken from real life. We like facile categories of good and bad, and… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wish I could just press a button and be through school and starting my real life,' I told him. 'This… — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Copy Share Image
I have found great power in taking my 'difference' out for a spin in a very public way. And usually, the worst,… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Because I came into acting late, my references come from real life. That's my biggest inspiration. It's probably the reason I moved… — Romany Malco Copy Share Image
In a dream world, I would love to be a master pastry chef, because it combines something I love doing baking with… — Josh Gondelman Copy Share Image
Deductivism in mathematical literature and inductivism in scientific papers are simply the postures we choose to be seen in when the curtain… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“but at the end of class, I still felt slightly annoyed towards Ivan, the way you feel towards someone in real life… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
A real life, a life that leaves a deposit in the shape of something alive… It's difficult to say what makes a… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
“This is not a story for the faint of heart; this is the story of one woman's very real struggle through a… — S.L. Jennings Copy Share Image
The queen was my favorite chess piece. Unlike the women I knew in real life, she was powerful. Her job was to… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
A lot of times in television, you don't get the opportunity to show real life because we're brainwashed to believe the propaganda… — Roy Choi Copy Share Image
I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn't scare me, but it's a lonely place, even if you've got friends… — Shirley Henderson Copy Share Image
No matter how much we're on our phones, going to the show is the goal - you look at things online and… — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The thing about the Oscars is real life doesn't stop. You have to get back to planet Earth the following morning. The… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
Both multiplayer games and online forums have this property of virtual anonymity. Other people can't really see you; they don't really know… — Tim Sweeney Copy Share Image
“We know it is similar to the Persian sorcerer I met in the Sandbox,” Olaf said. “I know it would be weird,… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“It was the sort of situation that would be ever so charming and warmly human in a film with Peter Ustinov and… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
“Funny how you can live your whole life waiting and not know it... Waiting for your real life to begin. Maybe the… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
If you have a real relationship with someone in real life they will call you out on it if you are being… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
It's like the iPod playlist has killed the way we think of the normal album, so let's think of this as just… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I think we need to have stories about women that don't necessarily fit the trope of the classic woman, because they do… — Cristela Alonzo Copy Share Image
There's a serendipity to real life that the Internet can't duplicate. Do you use the library? For anything? Well, sometimes you end… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
In a traditional Western there's always the bravado, and it's almost like they're winking that they know they're in a Western -… — Ti West Copy Share Image
In real life, we do things out of character, constantly. A couple of days ago, my shoes were hurting, so I walked… — Allison Williams Copy Share Image
I always had a sketchbook with me when I was young. I was hiding behind it, basically, hiding behind drawing because I… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
Some of the Tories say, 'She left school at 16, she doesn't have a university degree, what does she know about education?'… — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
It is essential to grasp the incontestable truth that a Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Tulse Luper, who without too many confessions, in a sense, is a fictive version of me. I have to say he has… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
You really got people that you got to talk to every day, you got teams that you gotta work with every day.… — Young Dolph Copy Share Image
Of course I know my characters are unlikable sometimes or have prejudices. It's not as if I'm thinking they're so endearing all… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
The truth is that we have to, as American citizens, stop thinking that this life that we're living, the things that we're… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
I made a boy's mistake, common enough, of thinking that real life was knowing many things and many people, living dangerously in… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I think my way of showing violence is unique from that of other filmmakers, in that when I show it, it hurts.… — Takeshi Kitano Copy Share Image
“This is a work of fiction. If certain characters resemble people in real life, it is because certain people in real life… — Fernando Del Paso Copy Share Image
“Do you think I'll ever have a real life?" "Define real." "You know... a job, a family, a house, stuff like that."… — Dianne Sylvan Copy Share Image
