Reality Quotes - Page 33

• A picture is not a window...an abstract refers to no reality but its own.

  Jean Cocteau

  Window, Abstract

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• I didn't necessarily fit in in high school. I felt very awkward. I still feel completely awkward and weird in my body sometimes. I'm hoping that's going to go away, but I've just embraced it as reality.

  Amy Adams

  School, Awkward, Going Away

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• Growing up in Ohio and just being kind of an average guy from flyover country - my dad was a factory guy - I try to put things on a screen that reflect reality. I don't mind if people want to argue with that, or think that's crazy.

  Roger Ailes

  Country, Growing Up, Dad

  "Roger Ailes on Roger Ailes: The Interview Transcripts, Part 1" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. January 25, 2011.

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• People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language.

  Afrojack

  People, Fake, Needs

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• People's perceptions of me have nothing to do with reality. I'm basically just your average dork.

  Art Alexakis

  Average, People, Perception

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• If I had a project that I had auditioned for and I was getting close to getting it, I didn't want to tell anybody because I thought then I wouldn't get it, but in reality that really had no bearing on whether or not I got a part.

  Amy Adams

  Want, Projects, Ifs

  "Amy Adams Interview LEAP YEAR". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. January 3, 2010.

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• There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.

  Margaret Atwood

  May

  Interview with Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. July, 1997.

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• One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.

  J. G. Ballard

  Home, School, Wartime

  "Sex and wheels: Zadie Smith on JG Ballard's Crash" by Zadie Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2014.

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• People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.

  J. G. Ballard

  Rain, Thinking, People

  J. G. Ballard (2005). “Conversations”, Re/Search Publications

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• A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll be a dismantling of the present broadcasting structure, which is far too limited and limiting.

  J. G. Ballard

  Home, Needs, Computer

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• You can't believe how hard it is for people to be simple, how much they fear being simple. They worry that if they're simple, people will think they're simpleminded. In reality, of course, it's just the reverse. Clear, tough-minded people are the most simple.

  Jack Welch

  Believe, Simple, Thinking

  Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

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• When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.

  Ben Okri

  Inventing

  Ben Okri (2014). “Astonishing the Gods”, Head of Zeus

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• Don't settle for wishful thinking; make peace in your heart a reality.

  Woodrow M. Kroll

  Heart, Thinking, Settling

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• Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression.

  Karl Marx

  Expression, Form, Assimilation

  "Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx, 1857-1858.

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• Making a movie is trying to capture moments of true reality.

  Juan Diego Solanas

  Trying, Moments, Capture

  Source: collider.com

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• In reality, anybody who's a woman knows that you've got your good days and bad days, just like anybody else. I've been lucky with a lot of shows that I've worked on, where they are comfortable with the idea that women are not just one thing, and we can be contradiction.

  Jessalyn Gilsig

  Good Day, Bad Day, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• One day I decided to move towards documentaries or to move to more directing in documentaries at this point in my career. Why documentaries? I also love fiction. I would love to direct a fiction movie as well. But I think where I come from, reality is so interesting and has in it so many good stories to tell, this is why I'm doing that. I'm enjoying that.

  Dror Moreh

  Moving, Thinking, Careers

  Source: collider.com

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• The dream of life is really an illusion, and everybody lives in the reality he or she creates - a virtual reality that is only true for the one who creates it.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Dream, Life Is, Illusion

  "Wisdom Keeping Traditions of don Miguel Ruiz and don Jose". Interview with Kala Ambrose, www.exploreyourspirit.com.

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• In my mind, I'm doing everything, but in reality, I'm doing very, very little. You come up with one idea, one moment, one line that leads to something and you feel like it's easy. And then, you sit back and think there would be no show without that.

  Timothy Olyphant

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

  Source: collider.com

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• You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Character, Expression, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Since the show [Helix] is based in real science, there are real-life epidemic scares out there, throughout history, where there are these huge viruses that have wiped out huge populations. So, we're dealing with something that the CDC hasn't seen before, but it comes from a virus. That's something that's based in reality, and then you put the science fiction on that and it's a really interesting combination.

  Kyra Zagorsky

  Real, Epidemics, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• In a social media age, it seems that everyone lives in their own reality and that when you give consideration to Newt Gingrich, he exists in an alternate reality, at some level, where the things he says are so diametrically opposed to the record.

  Steve Schmidt

  Media, Giving, Age

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Everything that I've ever done is not really based on reality, it's the caricature of reality, which is what's really exciting.

  Genndy Tartakovsky

  Done, Exciting, Caricatures

  Source: collider.com

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• I was never shielded from the realities of what it meant to be an artist and that made me afraid to be an artist because I wanted to know that my life was secure.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  Artist, Made, Wanted

  "Zoe Lister-Jones Talks LOLA VERSUS, Her Ambitions to Direct and Write a Novel, and Her Next Film MOTHERFUCKER". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 7, 2012.

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• We're not just somebody's girlfriend who smiles all the time and bakes cookies and always has lingerie ready and their hair done. That's not real. The roles that I play are about bringing as much reality into it as possible.

  Madeline Zima

  Girlfriend, Real, Hair

  Source: collider.com

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