#real

It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#become #celebrate #doing #even #government

If it wasn't for the fun and money, I really don't know why I'd bother. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#fun #i #know #money #really

Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#because #being #characters #come #even

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#characters #i #live #lives #putting

I really had to think and learn about musical intervals. ↗

— Robert Plant

#had #i #intervals #learn #musical

I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really. ↗

— Robert Plant

#really #sax #tenor #voice #wanted

I'm British - ostensibly British - but I don't know where I really belong, you know? ↗

— Robert Plant

#british #i #know #ostensibly #really

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#call #could #dying #else #everything

I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink. ↗

— Dana Plato

#function #hate #how #i #learning

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay! ↗

— Andrei Platonov

#forget #here #kids #lenin #mothers