Author Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Mary McCarthy Quote: 'I am putting real plums into ...'

Author

Profession: Author
Nationality: American
Birthday: June 21, 1912

Links

Tags

Am I Am Real Putting Cake Imaginary

Related Quotes

bridge park lake forest morning

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

Tags: Must Real Prefer

mountain troodos landscape village

I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.

Eminem

Tags: Think Who I Think

waterfall water nature river falls

I am a doctor, a real doctor.

Tags: Am I Am Real

dolomites mountains italy

I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office.

Tags: Out How Am

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

Tags: People Me About

dolomites mountains italy

I love roles where I am required to prepare physically. And it's fun putting on weight and eating.

Tags: Love Am Where

dolomites mountains italy alpine

I am just trying to keep it real.

Tags: Just Am I Am

water sea turquoise ripple texture

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

Beyonce Knowles

Tags: Who Life Very

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

Federico Fellini

Tags: See Everything Real

I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test.

Tags: You About Always

sunset sky clouds sun nature

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.

Penelope Wilton

Tags: People Life Go

birds on a wire sunset sky clouds

If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.

Tags: Really Life Am

I am actually extremely casual in certain environments. But one of the reasons I like living in London, I like the formality of it, as compared to the formality of America - or informality. I like putting on a suit. I like putting on a tie.

Tom Ford

Tags: Like Am I Am

Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.

Emile M. Cioran

Tags: Because Them Way

I treat all my characters as if they were real, and I am scrupulous about the details of their lives.

Tags: About Were Am

When it comes to an everyday situation, I am like an ant. I keep putting money aside because I know that if I want to splurge, there is a big mountain of money that I can use.

Priyanka Chopra

Tags: Money Like Because

I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship with the real world, since the hero is the city's Hell and ends up with a sidekick who is a demon.

Tags: Relationship Who Up

When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.

Tags: Good Power Food

I am very sad that some designers are still using real fur when the fake alternatives are so effective and so easily obtainable.

Twiggy

Tags: Sad Very Some

I am a vegetarian. I don't want to have anything injected into me that I can't eat. I am a real health nut. I look after myself well.

Tags: Health Me Want