Realist Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Realist Quotes from famous persons: Jed Mercurio, Todd Gitlin, Mike Ditka, Kurt Sutter, John Barth. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Realist Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

‘Line of Duty‘ is a social realist drama, so it’s set in a world that has the recognisable features of the authentic world we see around us.

Jed Mercurio

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.

Todd Gitlin

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.

Mike Ditka

I was really exposed to great old-time literature – the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That’s when writing became a primary focus.

Kurt Sutter

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.

John Barth

I’m a realist.

Penelope Keith

I like to think I’m some savage realist.

Nick Frost

The magical and fantastical isn’t something I’m uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.

Patrick Ness

I’m a realist.

Kamaru Usman

I think Bernie Sanders is a realist.

Linda Sarsour

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

Arthur Symons

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.

Chuck Close

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.

Rodrigo Duterte

The idea of social realist art and of Marxist journalism was that: ‘We’re going to tell people not what things were like, but what they should be like, and what they will be like, and we’ll get them to keep focusing on the future.’

Anne Applebaum

I’m a realist about how the networks work.

Mark Frost

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.

Joan Baez

There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.

Samantha Power

I’m always a realist, and I know the world of football is fast-moving.

Arjen Robben

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.

Beau Willimon

Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.

Paul Wellstone

This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you’re facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.

Warren Rudman

I was quite excited, but I was sure I wouldn’t win the race. I am a realist.

Jean Alesi

When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.

David Coverdale

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

Eric Hoffer

I consider myself a realist.

John McCain

I learned you have to move fast, writing futuristic satire in America: Before you know it, you’re a realist!

Jennifer Egan

In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

David Ben-Gurion

I don’t quite operate within the realist mode. I kind of push the stories out towards the cusp of believability – that’s the area of interest for me.

Kevin Barry

The number of realists who are betting that both the ‘economy gets healthy soon‘ and this government gets spending under control is a tiny group, indeed.

Bob Beauprez

There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism that for all its sincerity is nothing if not vague and sentimental; and he is the most acute and dispassionate of observers, the most profound and earnest student of character and emotion.

William Ernest Henley

What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.

Gore Vidal

I don’t ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I’m not a romantic really.

James Earl Jones

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.

Margaret Atwood

My mother is a realist, and she‘s had biological and adoptive children, and she said it’s no different: No matter what, they’re putting a stranger into your arms. You don’t know them yet.

Katherine Heigl

I’m an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

Tom Hiddleston

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

William Arthur Ward

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.

Julien Benda

The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere information, or mirror anything. I am not a realist writer, even if I seem like one.

Colm Toibin

I refuse to use terms like ‘optimist’ or ‘pessimist’ and instead prefer ‘realist.’

David Petraeus

I’ve never really played everyday people. I’ve played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my characters.

Sandrine Bonnaire

When I was younger, I was somewhat of an idealist. I guess I’m a little bit more of a realist now. I think there’s a lot that can be done to make the world a better place, but it’s more about choosing your battles.

Conor Oberst

I am a social realist writer.

Jed Mercurio

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, ‘No, you just have anxiety.’

Jessica Chastain

I’m a realist, and so we have to take what exists and continue to struggle to move forward.

Danny K. Davis

The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel.

Kate Forsyth

I’m painfully a realist but ruthlessly an optimist. I think maybe it’s because of my faith – I’ve always got the hope that there is something out there to make it all worthwhile.

Mat Kearney

I’m a realist.

Jeanine Pirro

I’m a realist.

Sheila Hancock

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.

Kevin Hart

I’m a realist.

Penelope Keith

I was staying at the Konchucos Tambo lodge, next to the Huascaran national park, near Chavin. Sitting here on its veranda, I was beginning to see where all those Latin American magical realists get their inspiration from: they don’t need to make anything up; they just write down what’s around them.

Mark Barrowcliffe

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.

Octavia Spencer

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.

Bill de Blasio

Anyone who doesn’t believe in miracles is not a realist.

David Ben-Gurion

You can cooperate and not compromise your core values. But I’m a realist with the philosophy that sometimes you’ve got to take bites out of the apple instead of the whole apple.

Jason T. Smith

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