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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
- Half The Time
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I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.
- Moment
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Both the 'Gregor' series and 'The Hunger Games' are what I call lightning-bolt ideas. There was a moment where the idea came to me. With 'The Hunger Games,' the lightning bolt sort of hit at a moment when I was channel surfing between reality TV and the coverage of the Iraq war.
- Everyone
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
- Humanity
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In reality, if there are 200 people commenting on something online, it's less than a grain of salt in a huge beach of humanity - who cares?
- Disarmed
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I feel like the Internet needs to be disarmed in some way. There needs to be a philosophical undermining of the Internet. We take it too seriously and too literally. For a reference we go to Wikipedia, which is full of inaccuracies and misinformation. It's kind of beautiful - it's all the product of imagination; it's not reality at all.
- Transformation
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In reality, the pioneers of this transformation of the indigenous Zapatista woman are a merit of the women insurgents.
- Just
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Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.
- Imagination
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The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.
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Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up to dystopic forces of oppression - a myth - and more in common with the disease known as cancer - a harsh reality.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would only ever be involved in a reality show that was about real life and had lots of action.
- Nov 07, 2020
No one in Silicon Valley loves virtual reality or believes in its future as much as Clay Bavor.
- Nov 07, 2020