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Who here actually thinks I would do Fifty Shades of Grey as a movie? Like really. For real. In real life... ? ... Good. Well… — Emma Watson
To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in real life and… — Louis Auchincloss
I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether;… — P.G. Wodehouse
Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual realism-the lifting, as it were, of passages from a stenographer's take-down of a 'real life' conversation-would be… — Elizabeth Bowen
As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable… — Ivy Compton-Burnett
Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you that's the bit that wasn't… — Neil Gaiman
This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should be a constant… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which… — Leo Tolstoy
Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Death is more important than life. Life is just the trivial, just the superficial; death is deeper. Through death you grow to the real life,… — Rajneesh
Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained. — Grant Morrison
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
The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work. — Elbert Hubbard
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
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
If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into… — Janet Evanovich
The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of… — George Santayana
American Hustle shows the FBI making real-life bribes to Washington politicians. I know, because as your U.S. senator, I turned them down. — Larry Pressler
I'm nothing like Romeo in real life. — Leonardo DiCaprio
I’d rather look chubby on screen and like a person in real life. — Jennifer Lawrence
I don't really diet or anything. I'm miserable when I'm dieting and I like the way I look. I'm really sick of all these actresses… — Jennifer Lawrence
As much as I do love real-life stories they can often make you hurt in a way I'd rather not hurt. . . . For… — Henry Cavill
I still like to live in a whimsical world that seems more romantic and fantasy-related because real life seems so hard — Taylor Swift
Sometimes the lines in a song are lines you wish you could text-message somebody in real life, — Taylor Swift

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