#realistic

I was only going to shoot you if he was in one band. And only if it had a name like Uncle Toejam's Acid Crematorium or something. But bluegrass is good, and hey, music is MY life too. Maybe I'll actually like the guy (assuming he's around long enough). Just don't write and tell me you're in the process of stirring up some baby Custard-Mustards. ↗

— Ellen Wittlinger

#humor #realistic-fiction #ya-fiction #music

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#conclude #democracy #feelings #forced #idealistic

I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. ↗

— Richard L. Evans

#believe #i #think #unrealistic #you

Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers. ↗

— Julia Gillard

#conviction #given #know #nature #overstatement

Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It's as simple as that. ↗

— Werner Herzog

#art #audiences #aware #completely #disappeared

I think that people, despite my law enforcement background, view me as taking these consistently progressive stands, and I think that, philosophically, there is a desire to get at that person. But I think the stands I have taken are totally consistent with a person who is looking at things realistically, factually. ↗

— Eric Holder

#consistent #consistently #desire #despite #enforcement

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#today #visionary

I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#definitely #doing #feature #feature film #film

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#direction #poetry #prose #realistic #stylized

I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic. ↗

— Chris Ware

#friends #i #i do #imagine #mom