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Things like 'The Office,' and arguably shows like 'The Only Way Is Essex,' are comedies, just using real people in real situations.
I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.
Typically, actors overplay jargon or toss it away in an extravagant display of casualness. Real people hit the important parts hard.
Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.
Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view.
For lots of us, disabled people are not our teachers or our doctors or our manicurists. We're not real people. We are there to inspire.
Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to capture in a photograph.
Beneath the 30 pounds of makeup and corsets and gowns are real beating hearts of real people and they usually come from a place of pain.
The characters are whole, real people to me that I'm getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are my characters, I hope.
I hope we see more stories where the heroes are real heroes, real people that don't need weapons or super powers to change people's lives.
In the midst of global recession, in the face of uncertainty about what's going to happen next, film looks for inspiration to real people.
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of a great empire.
You know what matters? Touching people. Being a real person. Because when you're in front of real people, they gon' give you a real reaction.
I'm not afraid to have a character say, 'I am a Christian,' or, 'I believe in God,' because I think they represent real people on this Earth.
People, when they say 'streetwear,' they miss the central component, which is that it's real people; it's clothes that are worn on the street.
People can get lost in the movie star world. They can't check in with reality, whereas I live at home with me girl, surrounded by real people.
Whenever you're telling a story about true-life events and about real people, there's a tremendous responsibility-slash-burden to get it right.
One thing about America is Americans are real people. So it's like, if they see that you're real, this is real, then they're gonna relate to it.
There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.
Because my friends and family are real people, and they wear all sizes, I couldn't imagine designing something that my loved ones could not wear.
I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.
Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.
With WesTrac, you have real people doing real jobs with real problems and real opportunities, and you touch the metal, and it's like being grounded.
In 'Property,' none of the characters are based on any real people, but the house is very much the house that I moved into in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script.
Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I'm asked if I model my characters on real people. Emphatically, no. And sort of, yes.
I can tell very early on, reading a script, within six or seven pages, whether I'm looking at real people, and whether I can see and hear real people.
There is a difference between using a made-up name and using real people as pseudonyms. People are not costumes you can wear. They are flesh and blood.
My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between.
In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.
Yeah, you know, there's a difference between the textbook world that economists like to imagine, and the real world where real people have real feelings.
I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.
I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.
When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.
I like performers who I know are for real. You can tell, man, there's an intensity about their stuff. You can tell right away they're real people, ya know?
Real people are places to me as much as persons: I want to see them, as I want to see the places I am fond of, in all weathers and at all times of the year.
I don't think you want to hurt businesses that are making $250,000 or $500,000. Those are the real people who created the opportunity to put people to work.
What bothers me the most are the Republicans and the Democrats: they act like little kids. They are lying to real people out here trying to get through life.
I'm like Twitter-famous, but in real life. Instead of your mentions, it's real people coming up to you. People shake your hand instead of liking your tweets.
I don't have any special approach for playing dark characters. That's because I never looked at them as dark characters per se. For me, they were real people.
One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.
I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that's relevant to real people, and that would allow us to reflect and learn about ourselves.
There are great news anchors; they're probably very smart, but they're not talking to the audience like real people. They're just reading from a teleprompter.
I've found I can plunge the characters into whatever absurd, awful situation, and readers will follow as long as the writer makes them seem like 'real people.'
Much like film, authors spend a fair amount of time alone in the creative process, tossing their work out into what can feel like an abyss, void of real people.
A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. But a lot of it is imagination. It's not based on real people.
We try to find the information, the clues, to unlock the play or the story or our characters, especially when they're based on real people that live and breathe.
At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers can identify with them.
As I get older, I find myself way more into sports. I'm in a basketball league. You maybe know some of the people in it. They're real people, not fake ones like me.
I've been lucky to travel and work all over the world through the lens of the back of the house, and I love that monocle. I love that lens, because it's real people.