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My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed… — Robert Bresson
If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real… — James A. Baldwin
First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land… — D. H. Lawrence
There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their… — Benjamin Franklin
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man. — Amos Bronson Alcott
We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are,… — James A. Baldwin
As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical… — Karl Marx
But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and… — Lord Byron
The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work. — Elbert Hubbard
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband. — Oscar Wilde
There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most. — May Sarton
Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each… — Tennessee Williams
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles… — Bertrand Russell
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone.… — Andrea Dworkin
Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together. — Thomas Pynchon
I write a lot from instinct. But as you're writing out of instinct, once you reach a certain level as a songwriter, the craft is… — Janis Ian
All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and… — Ann Wilson
I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't sure was going… — John Prine
All those songs are totally timeless. They'll always stand up because they came from a real place. They weren't crafted songs. They were written from… — Shooter Jennings
I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy. ... Singing is an acting role… — Usher
All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and… — Cat Stevens
Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am… — Queen Victoria
A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land. — Martin Luther
We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense… — Joseph de Maistre

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