- Myself
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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
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction.
- Devil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fame is often called a deal with the devil. Reality show fame is a really bad deal with the devil.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a writer is already stretching the bounds of reality by writing within a science fiction or fantasy setting, that writer must realize that excessive coincidence makes the fictional reality the writer is creating less 'real.'
- Nov 07, 2020
You create your own reality.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.
- Impact
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trauma fractures comprehension as a pebble shatters a windshield. The wound at the site of impact spreads across the field of vision, obscuring reality and challenging belief.
- Expectancy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality is that life expectancy has not improved for everyone. In fact, in some cases, life expectancy is actually decreasing.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I wanted to marry a farmer, but no doubt the reality would have been very different to the idyll in my head.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being in a band is not about reality - it's a bit of a fantasy. I can't go on stage as my ordinary self and just play - I've got to become my 'superhuman self.'
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020