What you learn in school is the opposite of what happens in the real world. In school, you're always worried about minimums. You have to reach 20 pages or you have to have so many slides or whatever. Then you get out in the real world and you think, 'I have to have a minimum of 20 pages and 50 slides.'
Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
Those who want things always to stay the same are not living in the real world.
I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.
I've not done badly for a boy from Stockwell, where I used to gaze at the silver screen in wonderment, little realising I'd be a part of this magical world.
This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.
Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.
The world has changed, the CIA is having to change, and again, the challenge for someone like me as a spy novelist is to write realistically about where they're actually going.
The idea of universal brotherhood is innate in the catholic nature of Chinese thought; it was the dominant concept of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, whom events have proved time and again to be not a visionary but one of the world's greatest realists.
I love many realists but very strongly resist the notion that realism presents a less stylized, more authentic version of the world.
The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
I don't need to do a reality show to make my mark in this world.
I would consider doing something along the lines of 'Tough Enough' because that was my first endeavor into reality television, and that is a world I know and love, and that's why I was on that show.
In America , there's a just-add-water reality TV world in which people expect to get their Warholian 15 minutes of fame.
I find that when I play reality-based characters, it is only as fun for me if I have a lot of time to do research. If I don't it just isn't exciting but if I do, it can be fun because I can learn about that person and the world that they live in and I can become somebody else.
No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.
My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.
Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.
I grew up in a very small town in North Carolina, weird and pudgy, without too many other kids to play with. I spent a lot of time watching TV. It was my reassurance that the outside world was bigger and more colorful than the one I lived in.
