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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? [...] The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture."

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered."

Thinking Real Grief
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Frank Herbert Science Fiction Writer
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"What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger."

Thinking Real Numbers
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Frank Herbert Science Fiction Writer
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"What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness - they cannot work and their civilization collapses."

Real Greatness Loyalty
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Frank Miller Comic Book Artist
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"It's one thing to be sitting at a drawing board, alone in your home and coming up with a fantasy character, and drawing her whichever way you feel like drawing, then dealing with a real performer. All of a sudden, things change. It's amazing, in working with actors, how much I learn from them and how many new lines will come to mind because of their personality or their strengths."

Real Character Home
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Frank Miller Comic Book Artist
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"When I'm writing a comic book, I'm thinking about a character that I'm going to be drawing on the page. I've never drawn a character to look like who I want to cast in a movie because I don't think that way. I'm a real monomaniac. I do one thing at a time."

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Nicolas Cage Actor, Producer
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"Film has lost something in the translation to high tech. It's become so super-real. It's with digital this and stereo that, and everything's like a CD."

Real Digital Cds
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Nicolas Cage Actor, Producer
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"Feel like real time unfolding. It's going to smack of reality and feel as real as it can ... The buildings themselves aren't (shown) ... The movie's about what happened amongst this handful of men when the buildings came down."

Men Real Building
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Nicolas Cage Actor, Producer
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"I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my first real introduction into classical music. It was totally inspiring to me."

Real Kids Enchantment
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Nicolas Cage Actor, Producer
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"People often say that you should never work with child actors. I think that's all wrong. Children have not had the imagination kicked out of them by life experience and adulthood. So, they still are very much alive with that kind of magical thinking which enables an actor to believe they're in these circumstances and make them real to you."

Believe Children Real
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Keller Easterling Architect
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"It may be unfathomable in architecture, but it is very practical, or routine, for a person in theater to use action. You have the line, "Come home, son," but you can't play that line by going out and being a mother; you can't be a noun. But you can play to smother your son; you can play to grovel to your son. Again, the real information is carried in action. And, to an annoying degree, theater people talk to each other in infinitive expressions. If you don't have a vivid verb to describe what you're doing, you're probably going to be a pretty bad actress."

Real Home Mother
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Kelli Williams Actress
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"Real life, raising kids and trying to raise them to be good people takes a lot of work. It's all about (appearing) effortless, yet there's so much effort. You do it the best you can."

People Real Kids
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"There's a real careful line you have to walk there because your first job [therapist] is to create safety for the client to feel safe enough to turn their vision in towards themselves and their experience in the moment and to reveal things that usually carry a lot of shame or that kind of stuff around."

Real Jobs Safety
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"There are real issues that the president Donald Trump and particularly Steve Bannon, his political adviser, are pushing. It's a vision, a rather dark vision, of a 19th century world where great powers do transactional issues."

Real Political Dark
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Helen Keller Author, Activist
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"Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.… You ask for votes for women. What good can votes do when ten-elevenths of the land of Great Britain belongs to 200,000 and only one-eleventh to the rest of the 40,000,000? Have your men with their millions of votes freed themselves from this injustice?"

Men Mean Real
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Helen Keller Author, Activist
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"We still have it in our power to rise above the fears, imagined and real, and to shoulder the great burdens which destiny has placed upon us, not for our country alone, but for the benefit of all the world. That is the only destiny worthy of America."

Real Country Destiny
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Helen Thomas Journalist
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"As a reporter having covered him for eight years in the White House, I am sure the media could have done a better job if we had known the real Ronald Reagan."

Real Jobs Eight
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George Harrison Musician, Singer-songwriter
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"That's the real beauty of chanting - you directly connect with God. I have no doubt that by saying Krishna over and over again, He can come and dance on the tongue. The main thing, though, is to keep in touch with God."

Real Doubt Tongue
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George Harrison Musician, Singer-songwriter
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"When I say that "l see God," I don't necessarily mean to say that when I chant I'm seeing Krishna in His original form when He came five thousand years ago, dancing across the water, playing His flute. Of course, that would also be nice, and it's quite possible too. When you become real pure by chanting, you can actually see God like that, I mean personally. But no doubt you can feel His presence and know that He's there when you're chanting."

Mean Real Nice
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