Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.
Veep is the best and most realistic political TV show out there.
'Realistic dreamer' is not an oxymoron.
Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic.
We will never stop illegal immigration until this country has a comprehensive, realistic immigration policy.
True hope is cleareyed. It sees all the difficulties that exist and all the potential for failure, but through that carves a realistic path to a better future.
It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.
To put more American personnel in harm's way without a realistic chance for success is something I'm not in favor of. And a realistic chance for success depends upon having the Iraqis with the will and the ability to fulfill their share of the bargain, and so far they have not.
I believe the twenty-first century can become the most important century of human history. I think a new reality is emerging. Whether this view is realistic or not, there is no harm in making an effort.
I'm not a Democrat; I'm something well to the left of a Democrat, but I'm just realistic about the system.
. . . That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.
So, but I've always been very realistic about what it is when you're in the public eye.
One has to be realistic. Ones concern for equity and justice in the world must not carry one into the alien territory of unreasoned belief. Thats very important.
I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.
The discerning realize that it is not realistic to expect perfection in others when none of us is perfect. . . Meaningful progress can be made only when all of us can cast the motes out of our own eyes, leave judgment to our Father in Heaven, and lose ourselves in righteous living.
You have to be realistic about where you are in life and enjoy it.
In fiction, I tend to write fairly realistic dialogue-not always, and it tends to vary from book to book. But in many books, there is a colloquialism of address. The characters will speak in a quite idiosyncratic way sometimes.
I was always realistic about the fact I wanted to be involved with big films.
I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.
Either we're going to solve this by realistic negotiation or there will be blood on the border.