- Emotion
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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
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.
- Editing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from the school of cinema verite documentaries, which was: Do not manipulate reality as it was happening but create a narrative in the editing room.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody wants to cast me in films, yes that is true. I do not know why, but that is the reality.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality is, when I'm sitting in a hotel room at 3 in the morning, and I see something on the Internet that interests me in the form of a band I want to hear, I like the ability to just go online to iTunes and download it immediately.
- Hill
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill.
- Bail
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, the reality is unemployment today - over 14 million Americans are unemployed. That's exactly what it was a year ago. I mean, this - the American people know we can't borrow and spend and bail our way back to a growing economy.
- Best Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality is, if you're going to have a defeat on the road, Week 1 is probably the best time to have it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theatre tends to be more metaphorical and intense, as you're locked in one room and focused on one thing. Television can hop around, and you need to invest in its naturalistic reality more. But I love writing both, precisely because they're so different.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020