- Me
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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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Jonathan Adler but more importantly I love throws. To clarify, a throw is not to be confused with a blanket. A blanket is to be slept under, a throw is to accent a chair or sofa and give the illusion that in some scenario someone might rest underneath it. In reality, this scenario does not exist and I never want it to.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just felt like actors - I watched a lot of 'SNL,' and those guys just seemed like they were superheroes - that that wasn't a reality for anyone other than people with superhuman strength. So, I mean, I acted a little bit in high school, but the idea of doing it professionally was just never really an option.
- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.
- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.
- Nov 07, 2020
What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years, as a seller of real estate and star of reality TV, Donald Trump made a living wooing customers and viewers. His selling skills were good enough that he even convinced voters to elect him as president in spite of his near-total lack of qualifications.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are young, you need to know the reality because when you are in your bubble, you believe that, always, all you do is right. And sometimes you need people who say, 'Hey, come on, what happened with you?'
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very well.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around '92 and '96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny, people don't think of 'Cloverfield' as being restrained because it's a handycam movie, but the only reason it's a handycam movie is because that was supposed to be the reality of the situation.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think Father Christmas is real because the belief is real. The belief becomes the reality.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020