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Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition. -- Ellen Kushner
After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway. -- Jennifer Ehle
When I remixed U2's "Even Better Than the Real Thing," that was a big moment and turning point for me. One of my remixes became "the big remix" for them and then I went on tour and was living on the road with them for six months. -- Paul Oakenfold
Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing. -- Irene Peter
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. -- Aesop
I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing. -- Mae West
I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest. -- Robert Wyatt
No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing. -- Michael Bolton
At the end of the day, if you're going to buy a can of Coke, you want the real thing. -- Richie Sambora
The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me. -- Robin Trower
I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing. -- Conor Oberst
A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing. -- Nathan Fielder
The real thing young people should fear is missing out on those few, true, long-term friendships that make for a richer, happier life. -- Robin Marantz Henig
I try to live with the idea that karma is a very real thing. So I put out what I want to get back. -- Megan Fox
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
If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier. -- Jessamyn West
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing. -- Jackie Collins
I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like. -- Natalie Dormer
Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing. -- Leonard Cohen
It is really no surprise that, in a media world that has been so compromised by an invasion of political partisans and inarticulate airheads with communications degrees, a fake journalist can seem more trustworthy than the real thing. -- David Horsey
Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing. -- Mike Simpson
My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They're authentic Italians, and honestly they're the most open-minded, nicest people in the world and nothing can really offend them. That's the way I think true Sicilians are. -- Vinny Guadagnino
I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general. -- Jason Schwartzman
It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing. -- John Perry Barlow
I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater. -- Harriet Tubman
There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing. -- David Letterman
Digital intimacy ruins the appetite for the real thing. So, when kids are gaming or even when spouses are gaming, they lose their appetite for genuine intimacy. Kids lose their appetite for getting their intimacy needs, their hunger for significance and attachment, with the family, and it erodes the relationship between them and their parents. -- Gordon Neufeld
I had this grand idea that Elvira's kind of the Santa Claus of Halloween - at the malls, you'd have an Elvira there. Girls would dress as Elvira just like guys dress as Santa Claus, and it's not the real thing, but they'll pose for pictures, sign autographs. Of course, I couldn't go around to every mall, so we'd have to get more Elviras. -- Cassandra Peterson
Ain't nothing like the real thing. -- Marvin Gaye
The only real valuable thing is intuition. -- Albert Einstein
The real thing creates its own poetry. -- Anzia Yezierska
One's real worth is never a quantifiable thing. -- Malcolm Forbes
A clockwork heart can't replace the real thing. -- Dru Pagliassotti
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Middle-aged adolescents are a libel on the real thing. -- Mason Cooley
They're just actors. I much prefer the real thing! -- Alan Clark
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The one real thing that money buys - Time. -- Marita Bonner
The real achiever do one thing at a time. -- Peter Drucker
There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing. -- Willem Dafoe
For one thing, I don't pun excessively in real life. -- Tim Vine
Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing. -- Walt Kelly
A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball. -- Joseph Joubert
I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing. -- Damien Hirst
Every thought of yours is a real thing - a force. -- Prentice Mulford
Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another. -- Anton Chekhov
I have this real moron thing I do? It's called thinking. -- George Carlin
Life had become a reproduction: it was not the real thing. -- Ray Davies
Every idea from your thoughts is the real thing it's strength -- Rhonda Byrne
Counterfeiters exist because there is such a thing as real gold. -- Rumi
Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold. -- Ada Louise Huxtable
Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance? -- Agatha Christie
The real thing, when done right , is always better than a daydream -- Amy Harmon
The real thing you do is you ask a lot of questions. -- Keith Rabois
In real life there is no such thing as the average man. -- Aldous Huxley
It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions. -- Ann Brashares
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It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible. -- Johnny Knoxville
A real friendship is a light thing. A real friend holds you loosely. -- Anne Rivers Siddons
The fans are probably the only thing I can really see that's real. -- Fetty Wap
That's how a thing starts out real then ends up just an idea. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Maybe the most real thing the end. To realize when it's too late. -- Peter Heller
One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it. -- Mahalia Jackson
In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. -- Fran Lebowitz
we have invented sex guilt to take our minds off the real thing. -- Muriel Spark
Real isn't how you are made... It's a thing that happens to you. -- Margery Williams
Why is a picture of something real eventually more exciting than the thing itself? -- Jamaica Kincaid
What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice. -- Ramakrishna
I've got a real love-hate thing with the saxophone. I've got to be careful. -- Alan Sparhawk
I didn't want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing. -- Robert Evans
True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning. -- Nicholas Sparks
The first thing we noticed was how flamboyant [Dalton] Trumbo was in real life. -- Jay Roach
And it seems to be today, image is a real important thing once again -- Phil Anselmo
Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing -- James Clavell
My own laugh is the real thing and I've had it all my life. -- Phyllis Diller
One real thing is closer to God than all the diagrams in the world -- Robert Farrar Capon
And the real thing can kill you whether you believe in it or not. -- R. A. Salvatore
The most important thing for me is to have real friendship between Egyptians and Americans. -- Mohammed Morsi
So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate. -- C. S. Lewis
Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done. -- Junot Diaz
Many people have just enough natural religion to make them immune to the real thing. -- Billy Graham
The real thing is the heart, you know the heart shouldn't be covered with concrete. -- Chuck D
No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal. -- Gregory Benford
The only thing of real importance that leader do is to create and manage culture -- Edgar Schein
Occasionally I go shopping for clothes, but I find the whole thing a real chore. -- Catherine McCormack
I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting. -- Antonia Fraser
The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you. -- Darren Shan
We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing. -- James Anthony Froude
What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not? -- Toni Morrison
What a song is is a subjective thing. There's no one real definition for it. -- The Edge
More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle -- C. S. Lewis
The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die. -- Carlos Castaneda
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real. -- Andre Malraux
The real thing is that sweet joy you feel when you're in the midst of it. -- Jan Phillips
In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise. -- Mason Cooley
Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing. -- A. O. Scott
The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth. -- Manny Montana
I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going. -- Gary Cole
So far we have done too much of 'spatial engineering'. The real thing is 'non-spatial engineering'. -- Kedar Joshi
If we split practice from the real thing, neither one of them will be very real. -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
People gravitate towards their own era, nostalgia therapy is a real thing that's being tinkered with. -- Charlie Brooker
Pornography is to sex what McDonalds is to food. A plasticized, generic version of the real thing. -- Gail Dines
There is no such thing as a 'real' representation of 'reality.' Except, perhaps, in algebraic formulae. -- Claude Simon
The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real. -- John Green
A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters. -- Barbara Corcoran
And then I settled into the most natural thing for a man with no real talents. Journalism. -- Charlie LeDuff
Comedy teams are a real hard thing to do. That's why you don't see any of them. -- Cheech Marin
Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real. -- Nik Kershaw
Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality. -- Frank Herbert
There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is no such thing as a paper loss. A paper loss is a very real loss. -- Jim Rogers
Note to reporters: The sanctimony thing probably works better on someone who has never broken real stories. -- Colin Flaherty
Sometimes we fall in love with the idea of a person and have trouble seeing the real thing. -- Paul Dano
How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible! -- C. S. Lewis
The only real valuable thing is intuition. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery -- Albert Einstein
Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination. -- Terry Pratchett
No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing -- Michael Bolton
Imagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it's a real curse in a dark alley. -- Zilpha Keatley Snyder
My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile. -- Dan Aykroyd

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