#real

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life. ↗

— Billy Joel

#always #around #artist #contemporary #contemporary life

If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#connection #first #last #look #real

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. ↗

— William James

#bad #believe #change #different #enough

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#aspire #changing #earnestly #frame #itself

For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US? ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#economic #globalization #influence #might #military

If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#best #capacity #capitalism #destructive #exploitation

It was all to do with the change of producer as well as political reasons I don't really comprehend. ↗

— Louise Jameson

#comprehend #i #political #political reasons #producer

I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s... Huge fan. I love all that stuff. ↗

— Thomas Jane

#fan #huge #huge fan #i #i love

I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie. ↗

— Allison Janney

#beauty #i #important #like #make

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#i #i think #innocence #project #really