Realness Quotes:

If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.

- Omari Hardwick

topic: Mean, Reality, Realness

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

- Sandra Bernhard

topic: Way, Realness

Now there is such a closed loop between realness and commercialism that one has to question why do more and more and more of those pictures. It's almost like everybody deserves a book about themselves, and everybody deserves a whole issue of Vice magazine devoted to them.

- Wolfgang Tillmans

topic: Book, Realness, Deserve, Commercialism

I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty.

- Carrie Brownstein

source: "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

topic: Natural, Process, Realness

I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.

- Andrew Wyeth

source: "Unhaling: On God, Grace and a Perfectly Imperfect Life". Book by Elise Seyfried (p. 85), May 6, 2010.

topic: Real, Feelings, Texture, Realness, Real Feelings

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

- e. e. cummings

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday, Inspirational Courage, Inspirational High School Graduation

People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language.

- Afrojack

topic: Reality, People, Fake, Realness, Body Language

'The Voice' has lots of singers who fit the 'Idol' mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also has long-suffering adult pros, with a whiff of thirtysomething despair in their voices. That adds an edge of realness.

- Rob Sheffield

topic: Mom, Idols, Voice, Realness

Defining oneself is a revolutionary act, and, as described in her memoir, Janet Mock fiercely fought to free herself with exquisite bravery and sensitivity. Redefining Realness is full of hope, dreams, and determination. It is a true American girl story.

- Michaela Angela Davis

topic: Girl, Dream, Determination, Realness, Redefining

I think it need realness, you should speak on thing that you know about, that you being from, that you experienced or that you been around, you know. I think you need a good hook, good beats and good lyrics.

- Obie Trice

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Hook, Needs, Realness, Good Lyric

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Real, Knowledge And Ignorance, Knowledge And Understanding

There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a real human experience for the fans.

- Wynonna Judd

topic: Country, Honesty, Real, Realness, Real Human

Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.

- Jerry B. Jenkins

topic: Special, Fiction, Messages, Realness

Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to negotiate remarkably well, with grace, humor, and fierce grit. Mock doesn't only redefine what realness means to her, but challenges us to rethink our own perceptions of gender and sexuality, feminism and sisterhood, making this book a transcendent piece of American literature.

- Raquel Cepeda

topic: Book, Mean, Journey, Realness, Gender And Sexuality

I don't have to change anything. I think that's the secret to comedy. You want to be universal and appeal to everyone. You want to put yourself in a position that no matter what you're talking about, everyone can relate to it and understand it, because it's an experience that everyone can go through. That's what I pattern my writing material and jokes after. I'm trying to maintain a level of realness that my fans can appreciate.

- Kevin Hart

source: "A Heart to Heart with Kevin Hart". Interview with Kam Williams, pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

topic: Writing, Thinking, Talking, Realness

I make no apologies for loving the finer things in life or the men I choose to date. I don't feel bad about the person I am. Now, I do have an edge, rawness and realness, and I can tell you I'm going to keep that.

- LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

source: "First Lady LisaRaye McCoy-Misick: 'I'm Going to Get Through This'". Essence Interview, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.

topic: Apology, Men, Rawness, Realness, Finer Things

What many people don't see is that there are abundant examples of phenomenal opacity: It is one of the most interesting features of the human conscious model of reality that, first, it can contain elements that are not experienced as mind-independent, as unequivocally real, as immediately given, and second, that there is a "gradient of realness" in which one and the same content can be experienced transparently or in an opaque fashion.

- Thomas Metzinger

source: Source: www.3ammagazine.com

topic: Fashion, Real, Independent, Realness

If you get into a fight and somebody punches you, you get two feelings. One: That really hurts. Two: That relief in the realness of, like, Wow, this is what it is. It's not an intellectual process.

- John Darnielle

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Hurt, Fighting, Two, Realness

Perfection, in the form of a flawless stream of words delivered with cool composure, is never as persuasive as realness. An impassioned but imperfect speech, which shows you care too much to hide flaws, is far more compelling.

- Charlotte Beers

topic: Perfection, Care, Speech, Caring Too Much, Show You Care

What Sri Krishna is saying, is that it's a terrible mistake to believe that this life we lead is real. Obviously it's real, but it doesn't last very long in its realness. It's very ephemeral and to mistaken the forms of life, the shapes that life takes, for reality, is not wise.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Wise, Real, Mistake, Realness

Our footsteps run, and I don't want them to end. I want to run and laugh and feel like this forever. I want to avoid any awkward moment when the realness of reality sticks its fork into our flesh, leaving us standing there, together. I want to stay here, in this moment, and never go to other places, where we don't know what to say or what to do.

- Markus Zusak

topic: Running, Reality, Laughing, Standing There, Realness

I believe we should really take our own phenomenology more seriously. What a good theory of conscious must explain is the variance in this subjective sense of realness: There clearly is a phenomenology of "hyperrealness", for example during religious experiences or under the influence of certain psychoactive substances.

- Thomas Metzinger

source: Source: www.3ammagazine.com

topic: Religious, Believe, Phenomenology, Realness

Life is like a box of chocolates, you fill your body with toxins, And amoxicillin and penicillin to cure your illness. But in realness? These medical companies will get you monthly Prescribing me pills that make me ill, just to comfort me.

- Termanology

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Chocolate, Penicillin, Realness

Somerset has a wonderful wildness about it - it hasn't been tamed. This is farming country, and there's a realness here - I love it.

- Anthony Head

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Country, Wonderful, Farming, Realness, Tamed

Things are only real after one has learned to agree on their realness. What took place this evening, for instance, cannot possibly be real to you, because no one could agree with you about it. 'Do you mean that you didn't see what happened?'. Of course I did. But I don't count. I am the one who's lying to you, remember?

- Carlos Castaneda

topic: Real, Lying, Mean, Realness

The influence that Oakland has on my sound is about 90%. There's so many different elements to Oakland. Of course you have the street elements, but then you also have the culture and there's so much culture around. It's a competitive city, it's full of just great artists and talent. It gave me the confidence, the passion, the realness I try my hardest to portray, so it has had about 90% influence on me.

- Adrian Marcel

source: Source: youknowigotsoul.com

topic: Passion, Artist, Oakland, Realness

There's a certain level of realness in Philly. You know, just - people are people. You know, it doesn't matter who you are or who you think you are, you're just a person in Philly.

- Jill Scott

source: "'The Real Thing,' According to Jill Scott". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 18, 2008.

topic: Thinking, People, Levels, Realness

I feel like the live record thing is something that I've been getting used to as the years go by and with this being my second one, I'm continuing to learn what works and what doesn't work. A live record is an example of that authenticity and that realness that you find in imperfection and you can hear that in this record.

- Josh Turner

topic: Years, Imperfection, Example, Realness, Continuing To Learn

But I want to feel like life matters. I had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.

- David Levithan

topic: Real, Want, Matter, Realness, Something Real

I think you can hear the struggles and hear a realness in Theocracy songs, a human element that you don't get from a lot of the typical Christian stuff.

- Matt Smith

source: Source: www.angelicwarlord.com

topic: Christian, Song, Struggle, Theocracy, Realness