In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.
If you want to do what you want to do, you have to look a certain way.
If you're still in a bar when the lights go on, you are a loser.
New York is where you go to catch a big fish.
I don't want the IRS banging down my door.
I always feel like I'm missing out on something, that someone is having more fun than I am, so I take measures to make sure that is impossible.