#real

We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. ↗

— Stephen King

#economics #interested #manufacturing #part #play

Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#dangerous #escape #face #facts #frequently

Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#filming #in the end #know #much #music

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#enthusiastic #happy #make #need #really

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#capacity #else #empathy #every #lost

You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done. ↗

— Nastassja Kinski

#done #go #go home #home #movie

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#growing #growing up #had #home #just

Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#brave #deeper #embrace #every #every time

I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there. ↗

— Jack Kingston

#effort #i #i wish #illegal #immigration

Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real. ↗

— Joel Kinnaman

#actor #audience #being #circumstance #feel