Real Life Situations Quotes

Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess a typical inexact problem similar to those which people are always having to solve in everyday life.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

My work is mostly influenced by the concrete circumstances of our daily lives.

In life, you know, they do this in focus groups; if you were in such and such circumstance, what would you do? Well, you never know what you're going do unless you're faced with it.

The things that scare me are real life situations. Real life is much more scary than anything you can put on the movie screen. Which is why I get very upset when people try to blame the movies for the violence in this world. I'm like 'Are you kidding me?'. There is more violence in a four hour period on CNN than any movie I have in my massive collection.

A lot of the people I'm working with are not actors, or it's their first time in a movie. I'm not trying to shape performances, coax performances out of them. It's more like I want to put them in situations that naturally work or allow them to be themselves. If it's not happening, I'll just completely switch it up, rather than trying to make it work.

Everything I write is based on something I've personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly entertaining.

You can train to be ready for the nerves, and we simulate it all the time, but it's never the same when it actually matters.

Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.

Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.

My shows and my material are grounded in reality. It's pretty much something that's either happened in my life or in the news, and I start there and give you my take on it.

People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.

I used to hear on the radio people like Jack Benny or Bob Hope, but I never had any interest in their type of humor. I thought that I could do something more substantially meaningful with significant, thoughtful, analytical reflections on real life situations.

I think the best comedy comes from stuff that's based in reality.

All entertainment is an element of fantasy because you are seeing something that is not quite real. There is no such thing as reality TV. Reality TV would be to leave a camera on in front of someone's house. Just leave it on. Then whenever the person comes or goes walking the dog or getting groceries, that's what it would be like. Any time you make an edit, you've lost reality TV. You're either compressing time or extending. That's a term that's been overused and overexposed. I think it's fantasy movies that take the fantasy of movies even further.

'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

You really see life around the principals to be as important as the main, principal actors. That's what cinéma vérité taught me - that it's not a question of having a main character, a great actor, and the rest is unimportant. Every detail, every face in the crowd is important.

When you make a documentary, you have to adapt to what reality imposes upon you.

Choices are much more practical and small when you're dealing with a real story. It's about execution, it's not about content.

I think pop culture is the greatest subject matter out there - 'Other People's Lives,' as we wrote about on the last Duran Duran album. Most ideas for great songs come from real situations, something your friend said to you the night before, the girl that just left, or something traumatic in your life.

Voters should absolutely know that a future president has the instincts to react to real-life and unrehearsed situations.

The best tests of my Christian growth occur in the mainstream of life, not in the quietness of my study

You can do anything when it's not real. When it is real, nothing breaks your fall. Nothing gets between you and the ground.

I think my genre is more 'reality rap'; I talk about my life and the struggles that I've been through.

From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the study of serious history. For it is history alone which without causing us harm enables us to judge what is the best course in any situation or circumstance.