One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in real people in extraordinary situations. The detail and reality to that. — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
“You are pure-hearted, Branza, and lovely, and you have never done a moment's wrong. But you are a living creature, born to… — Margo Lanagan Copy Share Image
Our consumer culture is fed by an increasingly sophisticated advertising industry that likes you, friends you, follows you, adds a plus to… — Leon Lazarus Copy Share Image
“The role of a socially committed historian is to use history, not so much to documentthe past as to restore to the… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
“But there was another class of people, the real people. To this class they all belonged, and in it the great thing… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Balzac, Dante, Joseph Conrad, Dickens," he answered without hesitation. "Not Exactly fashionable." "That's why I read them. If you only read the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Worry about your character and not your reputation, because your character is who you are, and your reputation is only what people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a huge responsibility writing about people who are alive. It's the thing about writing that keeps me awake at night: dramatising… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
As you age you lose ur outside[looks, ect] disappear and your inner self begins to show — Michael Country Copy Share Image
Never search a person whom you want; Search a person who wants you. Don't care for those who ignore you; Care for… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
We continue to focus on actually solving problems that real people have and not being distracted by what power users want. — Arash Ferdowsi Copy Share Image
The great thing about writing for a younger audience is that they will give it to you straight with their responses. They'll… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
People promote being a 90s kid when in reality we're labeled as The Lazy Youth, Lost Generation & we're looked down upon… — Emanuel Sebastiao Copy Share Image
I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs. — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
Don't pretend to be someone your not. It is better to suffer being who you are than it is to suffer trying… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He also tried to block the doorway when she left him. My mother ducked under his arm, ran to her car, and… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Plato--who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
Let's try to bring more style into basics, and let's touch real people all around the world, people who don't really care… — Christophe Lemaire Copy Share Image
“I’m fighting a losing battle. I can’t tell this story the way it should be told. This whole hotchpotch of characters, events,… — Laurent Binet Copy Share Image
“Television cameras should be banned from fund-raisers: donors were “rich and fat and drunk and dumb,” Nixon said. “You want to get… — John A. Farrell Copy Share Image