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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
- Want
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason why there are so many characters who suffer in my games is that I want to show reality.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought that I would ever actually get to make films. Being from Greece, it wasn't really a reality.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anytime anyone complains about wrestling, it's so annoying to me because people come off as these entitled infants. Because in reality, wrestling hurts so bad. And then we're hurting ourselves to entertain the masses.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality is, is that the military is full of native nomenclature. That's what we would call it. You've got Black Hawk helicopters, Apache Longbow helicopters. You've got Tomahawk missiles. The term used when you leave a military base in a foreign country is to go 'off the reservation, into Indian Country.'
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.
- Diminishes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's an unfortunate fact that in the male black population, a very significant percentage of them, more so than whites or other minority candidates, because of convictions, prison records, are never going to be hired by a police department. That's a reality. That's not a byproduct of stop-and-frisk.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem of good as it faces the atheist is this: Nature, which is the nuts-and-bolts reality for the atheist, has no values and thus can offer no grounding for good and evil. Values on the atheist view are subjective and contingent.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I didn't mould my reality then I'd still be in the ghetto where people like me are supposed to stay. You have to dream your way out of the nightmare.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever you're fighting with weapons, there's a level of reality because people don't understand that these are still metal or hard rubber with sharp points - that if the timing's wrong, you could definitely get hurt. There's nothing like working with an actor who doesn't know what they're doing, because you're always in fear of losing an eye.
- Perception
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- Nov 07, 2020