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There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.
There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.
I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist.
A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.
A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.
Even though I'm a realist, I try to let the medium show and allow it a certain degree of freedom.
I'm a romantic realist. I knew I would become a star, just as I know some day the bubble will burst.
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist.
I'm a confident person in knowing my abilities, but also know, I'm kind of a realist, I know when I suck.
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
I learned you have to move fast, writing futuristic satire in America: Before you know it, you're a realist!
I'm pretty much a realist. There's a certain age you get to when you're not really going to be shown anymore.
A man who has been shot at is a new realist, and what do you say to a realist when the war is a war of ideals?
A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.
I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.
I write from what I take to be the realist's point of view, looking at life as it really is - or the way I see it to be.
Today, I don't have any psychological scars, because I am a realist and an optimist. After all, I can't lose my legs twice.
He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.
People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.
Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.
I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called.
The great joke is that a realist is an optimistic pessimist. That's very witty. Whether it's truthful or not, that I don't know.
The common belief is that you are either a dreamer or a realist. But idealism and pragmatism aren't as far apart as one might think.
It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.
The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.
It's funny, for a long time I would go watermelon-red and deny that I was a magical realist. It felt imprecise to me, a misrepresentation.
Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.
I am neither a pessimist nor an optimist. I am a realist, and the reality in Iraq is that it has been very hard and it continues to be hard.
My dad always believed in me. He was always kind of, 'All right, buddy, if that's what you want to do...' My mom was always more of a realist.
I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances.
A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been burned.
We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.
I'm more of a realist when it comes to life, and I'd much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.
In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
Romantics value intensity over stability. Realists value security over passion. But both are often disappointed, for few people can live happily at either extreme.
I was impressed that when it came to making 'Rebellion,' they sought out Aku Louhimies, a Finnish director who's part of that new wave of Scandinavian realist drama.
Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.
If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.
I'm a realist. Where I come from, 'phenomenons' don't exist. I'm from a land where people make mistakes and try again, harder, faster; where negativity is not an option.
I'm a realist - yes, I know: darn, I'm unlikely to have a love scene with Chris Hemsworth anytime soon, if ever. But I also believe that persistence and hard work pays off.
I'm a realist, not a sugar coater. I believe in always letting people know what their obstacles are. And at the end of the day, I just want to be respected for my hard work.
I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.
I only want three children for every family. I'm a Christian, but I'm a realist, so we have to do something with our overpopulation. I will defy the opinion or the belief of the Church.
An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time.
A novel, even a social realist one, can't simply be a comprehensive rendering of what is. A novel requires a special angle or approach, whether in structure or language or theme, to justify itself.
I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.
A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
I'm not coming in as an advocate of sports gambling. I'm trying to be more of a realist to say it's going on in a massive way... and I think the right course would be therefore to legalize it and regulate it.