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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
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
When entertainment was begun, during the Depression, it was supposed to take people's minds off reality. People could sing, dance, act or do anything. It was the type of entertainment that was available.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe art is a way to attune to what reality is, which is a weird reality.
- Losing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Losing a fantasy is much harder than losing a reality.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since appearance can't be peeled decisively from the reality of a thing, attunement is a living, dynamic relation with another being.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are literally millions of human beings whose lives have been snuffed out by people who conquered under the banner of a white god.
- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020
For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion, let alone an exercise in irrational conspiracy theorizing. Rather, it speaks to a social reality about which blacks are acutely aware.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
In many respects, theater is still grappling with problems of reality and representation that the visual art movement realized were unimportant many years ago.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something insane about a lack of doubt. Doubt - to me, anyway - is what makes you human, and without doubt, even the righteous lose their grip, not only on reality but also on their humanity.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality is, I've started multiple companies, so actually I'm probably more of a product/creative person than I am sales. Although I can do both.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020