- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reality Quotes
What's real depends on where you're standing.
This set weighs reality against illusion, touching on digital-age facts that can't be hidden, the difference between a screen character and the actor playing tough, and why escapist fantasy still appeals. For adjacent emotional ground, see our Pain quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Interview
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- Nov 07, 2020
My applications submitted to the Tribunal regarding my interview during the hunger strike were misinterpreted, and it was published in the press that I was going to offer defence, though in reality I was never willing to offer any defence.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't just only be on reality TV and show everything when it's the fairy princess, fairytale, and then not take my hits when I have to.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We take the suggestions people give us and build the best reality we can for them.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human-induced climate change is a scientific reality, and its effective control is a moral imperative for humanity.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody wants to sit where I'm sitting and say, 'Hey, this is the reality. I did two movies, six guest-star spots and I starred in a one-woman show, and I'm not making any money. I'm on TV every day in every country in the world, and I don't make any money.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.
- Arguably
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatives complain that the Supreme Court is too liberal. Liberals complain that it's too conservative. Both charges are inaccurate: in reality the Court is a careful political actor that arguably represents the center of gravity of American politics better than most politicians do.
- Imperfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.
- Being Used
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going to happen! That's the nature of drama. Most of the things that get made or basically grisly detective shows about murders, accidents or medical dramas.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality.
- Foolhardy
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- Nov 07, 2020