Real life is a phrase used to distinguish actual events, people, and activities from fictional worlds or characters, from interactions on the Internet, or, pejoratively, from certain lifestyles or activities that the speaker deems less important, worthy, or otherwise "real."
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... an underwater city located in the Pacific Ocean beneath the real life tropical isle of Bikini Atoll ... Stephen Hillenburg has stated that much of Bikini Bottom was based on the real life city of Seattle ... themselves however, despite implications of the city's location as well as analogies to real life, Hillenburg has stated that he wishes to leave the city isolated from the real world, explaining the Baywatch parody ...
... Here are some of these examples, and their relationship to the real world material science usage, if any ... Name Source Uses Related real use Aluminium Star Trek In the film Star Trek IV The Voyage Home, Scotty gave instructions for the creation of the fictional material ... In real life, scientists have announced a plastic as strong as steel, but transparent Beryllium Galaxy Quest, The Shadow The starship NSEA Protector is powered by large spheres of beryllium ...
... Farhampton train station in the rain that although Victoria is wonderful, she is not "the life long treasure of destiny" for him, but "almost the thing he wants, but not quite" ... Sandy Rivers Played by Alexis Denisof (Alyson Hannigan's real-life husband) ... Blauman Played by Taran Killam (Cobie Smulders' real life husband) Barney and Marshall's coworker, friends with Bilson ...
... fictional character of Henry Cameron in Ayn Rand's 1943 novel The Fountainhead was similar to the real-life Sullivan was noted, if only in passing, by at least one ... journal notes as well as a close comparison of the respective careers of the real and fictional architects by Heynick has explored this connection in ... to architecture) that she was intimately familiar with his life and career ...
... The phrase is also used to distinguish academic life from work in other sectors, in a manner similar to the term "real world" ... A person with experience in "real life" or the "real world" has experience beyond book learning ...
Famous quotes containing the words life and/or real:
“The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practise politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)