- 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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it.
- Computers
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was not until the appearance of cyberpunk in the 1980s that SF began to grapple in a broadly meaningful way with the reality of computers as something other than giant mainframes tended by crewcut IBM nerds.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The old Rankin-Bass animated specials seemed to exist in a loosely shared reality, which is what attracted me to them. Santa, Snow Miser, Rudolph, Frosty, even the Easter Bunny seemed to be on nodding acquaintance with each other, even if only in cameo appearances in each other's cartoons.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember when I saw 'The Dark Knight' movie, and I was sitting there watching it, and there actually came one or two places where I had trouble divorcing myself from the reality of the locations because it was filmed in Chicago, and I know that city quite well.
- Excess
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have argued that the Soviet story is one of the interaction of speculative excess or utopian aspirations with refractory reality.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need to aim beyond what you are capable of. You must develop a complete disregard for where your abilities end. Try to do things that you're incapable of... If you think you're incapable of running a company, make that your aim... Make your vision of where you want to be a reality. Nothing is impossible.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Trump administration has done everything in its power to uphold the harsh racist reality we have faced.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The unfortunate reality is the alt-right has captured white people's imagination.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020