#real thing

After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway. ↗

— Jennifer Ehle

#acting #actress #after #anyway #because

It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#dismiss #either #fantasy #found #futile

They're just actors. I much prefer the real thing! ↗

— Alan Clark

#just #much #prefer #real #real thing

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold. ↗

— Esther Forbes

#belief #believe #books #hold #i

All the real things in Russia are done in the villages. ↗

— Ernest Poole

#real #real things #russia #things #villages

When my parents died, it became clear to me that there was an end in sight. Death was never a real thing to me. And then when that happened I realized I only have so many years left, if I'm lucky. ↗

— Rick Baker

#clear #death #died #end #happened

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. ↗

— Aesop

#hiss #imitation #men #often #real

If you're going to buy pasta, you should buy dry pasta. If you're going to make it you can make the real thing, but you shouldn't buy fresh pasta. ↗

— Mario Batali

#dry #fresh #going #make #pasta

I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature. ↗

— Robin Day

#contact #get #hands #i #i think

I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that. ↗

— William Devane

#i #learn #like #me #only