#real

Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#contrary #does #fictions #hand #i

I understand what it feels like not to like aspects of yourself. There have been times that I have felt really terrible about the way I look. I have the seed of that feeling. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#aspects #been #feeling #feels #felt

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#boring #characters #i #like #me

My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#am #because #good #i #i am

I just had a baby. I'm not going to work unless it's something really special and meaningful, because I can't imagine missing all that time with my daughter. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#because #daughter #going #had #i

I put on the fat suit and went outside and walked around. I was really nervous about being found out, but nobody would even make eye contact with me. It really upset me. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#around #being #contact #even #eye

I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#hypnotized #i #like #really #robbins

Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#box #box office #except #films #i

I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#evil #i #islamists #often #portray

I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#cia #decisions #had #i #make