#the real world

When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate. ↗

— Robert Crumb

#come #i #just #real #real world

To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#always #business #everything #how #i

When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#back #change #get #i #just

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#bonds #books #elements #friendship #granted

I kept a steel wall around my moral and sexual instincts - protecting them, I thought, from the threats of the real world. This gave me a tremendous advantage in politics, if not in my soul. The true me, my spiritual core, slipped further and further from reach. ↗

— James McGreevey

#around #core #further #gave #i

They don't actually see the real world, where 95% of the people with HIV are not treated and are dying. And even though we have some blue sky now in our country, the sky could become cloudy again very soon. ↗

— Luc Montagnier

#again #become #blue #blue sky #cloudy

Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#alone #beginning #forcefully #hearts #letters

Now having said that, I realize that releasing a film in the real world is like trying to get General Motors to release a handmade car. ↗

— Godfrey Reggio

#film #general #general motors #get #handmade

For economist the real world is often a special case. ↗

— Edgar R. Fiedler

#economist #often #real #real world #special

I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#different #done #exists #experience #family