#real thing

I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#belief #believer #causes #faith #i

If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing. ↗

— Val Kilmer

#because #brands #care #get #i

I have a real thing for Mexican directors. And I love Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. ↗

— Emma Watson

#directors #i #i love #love #mexican

Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it's worth it. He's the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#before #crowe #difficult #i #i can

I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#fantastically #i #i think #most #real

There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care. ↗

— Adam Brody

#boring #care #compares #conversation #how

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#like #real #real thing #reputation #shadow

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#fiction #find #historical #historical fiction #i

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really. ↗

— John Mayall

#dictates #goes #i #i write #mood

An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#administrator #big #bureaucratic #feel #him