#real world

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

— Robert Crumb

#come #i #just #real #real world

I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#close #closer #contradictions #dream #dream world

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

I think it's sad to me that I had to make a decision to not play the game that I feel like I'm best at and that I love. But if it was just about the game itself, I'd be there in a heartbeat. But that's not how the real world works. ↗

— Tiffeny Milbrett

#best #decision #feel #game #had

But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#complete #confront #confronted #fantasy #make

I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#elevated #even #fairy #fairy tales #i

I don't think there are beautiful women out there trying to lure men into any kind of conspiracy. I think people are out there just trying to meet someone new and interesting and live in the real world. ↗

— Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

#beautiful #beautiful women #conspiracy #i #i think

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