21.  Although Steinbeck's book is a work of fiction, his characters are not unlike many real people today.

22.  Facing the audience in a club, he would ask, "Where are the real people?"

23.  Executives at Bravo said that if the program does make its fall schedule, it will be careful to portray the gay men as real people.

24.  Even if they had tried using real people, "it would have been a nightmare and it probably wouldn't have worked."

25.  First, I am biased toward interacting with real people rather than sitting at home with my computer and credit card.

26.  For $4 you can get into the clubhouse section and for $2 you can mingle with the real people in the general admission.

27.  For journalists to insist on conflict over the harder-to-explain stories about how policy affects real people's lives can be deeply alienating to voters.

28.  Flanagan delivers real people, scores of them crowding his canvas, but each so vividly drawn that confusion doesn't happen.

29.  For openers, the new G20 has a real back seat, a bench that will accommodate real people with real knees who wish to sit upright.

30.  For the record, it's not unusual for any of the "Friends" cast to talk about their characters as if they were real people.