#the real

All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

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They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#civil servants #diplomats #drawn #foreign #get

Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less? ↗

— William Glasser

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In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#enthusiasm #everything #ideas #perseverance #real

The thing that bums me out about 'The Real World' is I don't want to believe that teenagers are that stupid. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#believe #bums #i #me #out

Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window. ↗

— Alan Cox

#assurance #behind #deadline #everybody #go

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#isolation #real #real world #said #something

What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

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My fiance and I had a few problems working through some of the things that he saw me say and do on the 'Surreal Life.' Considering the company that I was in, Ron Jeremy and Trishelle from 'The Real World,' I think I was pretty tame. ↗

— Traci Bingham

#considering #few #fiance #had #i

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