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Facebook succeeded because it was about real people having a presence on the Internet. There were all these other social networking sites people had, but they were all about fictional people.
Peter Thiel
As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.
Orlando Bloom
For me, I can only do that from my own experience with people I've known and things that I've lived and experienced. That's what good pop music is all about, pop music that does reach out to people. It's very personalized and very real, honest and sincere.
Jon Secada
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I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.


Penelope Wilton
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Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.
Lloyd Alexander
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I want to say a very sincere thank you for this welcome home - it is a wonderful welcome home. It is the place to where I return and where I will always return because it is of Galway that I am.
Michael D. Higgins
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Another random thing I do is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. And you may be familiar with the movie 'Contact,' which sort of popularized that. It turns out there are real people who go out and search for extraterrestrials in a very scientific way.
Nathan Myhrvold
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I have an artificial left shoulder, wired back together after a softball accident.


Gregory Benford
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I'm following a real event and real people.


John Landis
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
Jackie Collins
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I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.


Tanit Phoenix
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I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy.
Wilfrid Laurier
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If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Khalil Gibran
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Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.


Chuck Jones
'Dear Mr. Henshaw' came about because two different boys from different parts of the country asked me to write a book about a boy whose parents were divorced, and so I wrote 'Dear Mr. Henshaw,' and it won the Newbery, and I was - it's been very popular.
Beverly Cleary
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We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.
Dan Hawkins
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The Faustian trade of the 20th century was, we got 30 years of additional life, but in return we got heart disease, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's and sensory impairments. The question is: What Faustian trade are we making now, as we go after heart disease, cancer, stroke and Alzheimer's?
S. Jay Olshansky
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Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.
Basil Rathbone
There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.
Samantha Bee
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If I've learned one thing in life, it's you can never go back.


Stephanie Zimbalist
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