Realistic Quotes

To be perfectly frank: I don't write women's fiction. I write intimate, gritty, realistic, character-driven fiction that happens to be thrown into the women's fiction category.

Any documentary; any capturing of a non-fiction event, is a hyper-realistic condensation of reality that hopefully reveals an emotional truth. It's never the actual literal truth of an event.

I deal with football from a realistic, logical point of view.

I think it's the best thing I've ever done. I think it's realistic, and it's true to the me that has been developing over the years. I like first-person music.

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

If the characters [in a movie] aren't real, if their lives aren't realistic, if you call bullshit at any point in their journey, then the rest of it is invalid.

God is the true realistic point where human reason mostly, if not completely, breaks down.

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

You have to have a balance and understand that as much as you would like to have absolute control over everything, it's just not realistic.

Look at the home makeover shows. It isn't realistic to tear down a house, rebuild it, and decorate it in less then a week, but there aren't people out there criticizing those shows.

A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.

Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present us with a kind of metaphorical look at some aspect of our lives.

You can't predict tomorrow. And because you can't predict tomorrow, you have to be realistic with what you have today. It doesn't mean don't enjoy yourself but enjoy yourself at the right time.

Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn't a realistic expectation.

Part of a horror movie has to be a bit fakey for me to really enjoy it. The new ones are so realistic that they distract me from the ride through the horror.

Conversation on the page should reflect what the story is about. It doesn't have to be "realistic" in the sense that it's something you heard and plugged into a story.

I'm a hopeless romantic. I consider myself a realistic person who usually finds stories from real life people.

I wouldn't play the normal girl. I don't think that that's interesting or realistic, as far as how human beings really are.

I don't intend to be insensitive to the victims and their families but, at the same time, as an actor, it's our job, and we are obligated to portray the characters in the most realistic way possible.

Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.

To really 'live,' that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can life with. You must find yourself acceptable to 'you.'

The Wire' is very realistic and based on real events.

It's always an honor to be ranked high, but whatever is said about you, you take it and then take a realistic look at yourself and who you are.

Dreams that are realistic, often come out of fantasies.

The more realistic US policy becomes, the better.

I think everybody wants to be loved, all the time, but it's not realistic. It's also not realistic, if you're going to be ambitious, in terms of changing the form or evolving.

When we went to the moon and realized that the Soviet Union had no realistic plans of getting to the moon, then we stopped going to the moon.

You've got to be realistic.

Humor is important. If you're going to tell any sort of realistic story, you're going to have to have humor in it, because people are funny. Clever people especially.

Be realistic: Go for the impossible!

Be realistic: always wish the impossible.

An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.

I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.

Kurt Cobain represents a very legit, realistic outlook. Before that, in my head, to be a white artist was to be privileged.

Sure, there are many bad things that can happen. Yet you can be aware of them, and realistic about them, without being obsessed and consumed by them.

A little-known company with a realistic framework that appeals to entrepreneurial employees is going to be more attractive than a famous company that treats its people like disposable assets.

I had to write about realistic circumstances. Thats the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.

I am not going to sit here and say I am never going to drink again. That is not realistic.

After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s, and I haven't changed my style since.

Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding.

Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

I always thought realistic was a better way to explain things that were "dramedies" because life is like that. It's funny, it's dramatic and to me that's how I see it.

There aren't a lot of films about adolescents or quote-unquote coming-of-age films that are realistic nowadays.

Goals have to be realistic and flexible.

I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions.

It's not sometimes realistic to think that something magical can happen, but I think I look for the magic.

I may still be a kind of a Marxist but I'm very realistic, I don't have these dreams of revolutionists around the corner.

I'm always being realistic.

It's not realistic to live in the country at this stage. I've got a business in London. I beat myself up about it all the time.

For my wife and I, the challenge is to not make every day the best day possible because it's not realistic.