#real

There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force. ↗

— Ted Stevens

#defense #defense budget #expenditures #force #gap

New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#crowd #else #everybody #everybody else #fascinating

Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#into #made #many #realities #reality

The genuine artist is never "true to life." He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#artist #aware #genuine #go #life

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#bottle #commodity #household #ketchup #kitchen

I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#condense #deal #emotions #enjoy #express

I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam. ↗

— Parker Stevenson

#could #day #draft #end #floored

I still think of myself really as a New Yorker. ↗

— Parker Stevenson

#myself #new #new yorker #really #still

Belief is the strongest power you can bring to bear in order to realise your dreams. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#belief #dreams #power #realise #dreams

The truth of the matter is, all of those guys on Star Trek: The Next Generation actually want to be me. These impersonations they do are just some way of trying to feel what it must be like to be me. And I understand that! Because it feels really good to be Patrick Stewart! ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#because #feel #feels #generation #good