#realistic

The way we make sense of a realistic text is through the same broad ideological frame as the way we make sense of our social experience or rather, the way we are made sense of by the discourses of our culture. ↗

— John Fiske

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Barack Obama may have found the answer to his biggest rhetorical challenge: When millions of voters are unemployed or underemployed, how does a president simultaneously sound realistic and optimistic? ↗

— Ron Fournier

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You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself. ↗

— Teri Garr

#accept #error #find #goals #going

If someone tells you he is going to make a "realistic decision," you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

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Either we're going to solve this by realistic negotiation or there will be blood on the border. ↗

— Tom Metzger

#border #either #going #negotiation #realistic

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes. ↗

— Arthur Miller

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But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic. ↗

— Frank Miller

#anybody #being #convince #ever #how

In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#conclusions #every #i #i think #japan

I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#consider #disarmament #first #first step #freezing

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

— Joe Namath

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