#real_life

Suddenly we saw that you could do plays about real life, and people had been doing them for some time, but they weren't always getting to the audiences. They were performed in little, tiny, theatres. ↗

— Timothy West

#always #audiences #been #could #doing

Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality. ↗

— Bryan White

#comes #country #country music #experiences #great

In real life, we do things out of character, constantly. A couple of days ago, my shoes were hurting, so I walked barefoot through New York. Someone who has known me my whole life would think that was so out of character. But I did it because of the circumstances. ↗

— Allison Williams

#barefoot #because #character #circumstances #constantly

Real life is not quite as it is in stories. In the old tales, bad things happen, and when the tale has unfolded and come to its triumphant conclusion, it is as if the bad things had never been. Life is not as simple as that, not quite. ↗

— Juliet Marillier

#life

Why do people complain when your crabby but the moment there crabby you tell them to stop moaning they moan so fuckin unreal ↗

— emma mckenzie

#truth #life

I thought Beatrice Keedsler had joined hands with other old-fashioned storytellers to make people believe that life had leading characters, minor characters, significant details, insignificant details, that it had lessons to be learned, tests to be passed, and a beginning, a middle, and an end. As I approached my fiftieth birthday, I had become more and more enraged and mystified by the idiot decisions made by my countrymen. And then I had come suddenly to pity them, for I understood how innocent and natural it was for them to behave so abominably, and with such abominable results: They were doing their best to live like people invented in story books. This was the reason Americans shot each other so often: It was a convenient literary device for ending short stories and books. Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as paper facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their madeup tales. And so on. Once I understood what was making America such a dangerous, unhappy nation of people who had nothing to do with real life, I resolved to shun storytelling. I would write about life. Every person would be exactly as important as any other. All facts would also be given equal weightiness. Nothing would be left out. Let others bring order to chaos. I would bring chaos to order, instead, which I think I have done. If all writers would do that, then perhaps citizens not in the literary trades will understand that there is no order in the world around us, that we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead. It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#real-life #equality

There was the dream of happiness and then there was what was real. ↗

— Elizabeth Brundage

#real-life #dreams

This friend of mine said he was surprised to find that - I don't think it's quite a majority - a bigger percentage of actors are introverts than extroverts. It was a big surprise to him. Now, I know me, and I'll do anything if I'm playing a character. Or anything that's true to the character, anyway. But in real life I'm a little more withdrawn. ↗

— Jackie Weaver

#anyway #big #big surprise #bigger #character

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. ↗

— Mark Twain

#head #himself #his #known #led

I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#characters #day #expect #free #get