Science fiction is about things that plausibly might happen. Grounding my work in the real world helps make that clear.
Kids aren't political, but around 10 years old, they are beginning to develop the moral grounding that might later, in their teens, develop into their first real political perspectives.
The groupies are far more real now than there were then.
Man, I don't got any real fans. Just fair-weather ones and groupies.
I don't think I really realized what being an adult and being a real grownup was until I was at least twenty-eight.
Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.
Like, on the 'Parks And Rec' set, I still feel like I'm a guest star. Being a fan of the show, it's really surreal to be on the set and see that it's not real, and getting to know the actors and they're not their characters.
Watching 'Scandal' is a fun and exciting guilty pleasure, which is how I imagine most real scandals start out.
I play a little guitar, write a few tunes, make a few movies, but none of that's really me. The real me is something else.
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
My family is basically Gypsies - for real.
It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
Computer hackers do not need to know each other's real names, or even live on the same continent, to steal millions in mere hours.
I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and that's just what I've always liked - people who would talk real honestly about their lives and their circumstance.
He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.
In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now.
At least Obama was half-way honest about how much he was going to spend on health care. He had it at $600 billion. And the real number... is $1.2 trillion.
I caught malaria, and the medicines caused a hallucination. I dreamt I won an Oscar for acting. I know it sounds stupid, but it was so real, and I just knew then it would happen.
A homemade hamburger can be a real treat.
East Hampton happens to have been the first place in the world where I was a star, a real star with a star pasted above my name on the dressing-room door.
