#real thing

There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care. ↗

— Adam Brody

#boring #care #compares #conversation #how

I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things. ↗

— Chuck D.

#beware #i #i think #marketed #now

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#like #real #real thing #reputation #shadow

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#fiction #find #historical #historical fiction #i

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#cannot #drawings #imagination #models #only

If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#child #combine #come #freely #go

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really. ↗

— John Mayall

#dictates #goes #i #i write #mood

An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#administrator #big #bureaucratic #feel #him

When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#been #care #guns #hang #i

My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#am #because #good #i #i am