If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn’t repel them. – Camille Paglia
The concept of the marvelous begins to take form when it arises from an unexpected alteration of reality, the miracle. – Alejo Carpentier
I just had a hunch that there might be kernels of truth or reality – scientific or historical reality – in stories about nature that are perpetuated in oral myths. That’s how I got interested in it. – Adrienne Mayor
It’s a wonderful narrative device to bring someone from the outside and look through his eyes if you want to describe the absurdity and preposterous reality that is accepted amongst the ones who are inside. – Christoph Waltz
I love all reality TV – Strictly, ‘The X Factor.’ I really don’t see why people are so snobby about it. – Alexandra Roach
As a driver you enjoy winning races, and if you win in the easiest way possible, fine, but in reality we all remember the fights to the end, the nip and tuck stuff. – Allan McNish
Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days. – Bill Griffith
The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor’s ability to earn a living. – Alan Rosenberg
I’m used to people with very high IQs knowing how to recognize reality, but there’s a huge human tendency where it may be instructive to think that whatever you’re doing to succeed is all right. – Charlie Munger
There’s three things that you need for virtual reality to work. You need the hardware that’s affordable and doesn’t make people sick, you need an audience that is willing to pay for it, and you need the content. – Chris Milk
The biggest crime in Nabokov’s ‘Lolita’ is imposing your own dream upon someone else’s reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn’t see Lolita’s reality. He doesn’t see that Lolita should leave. He only sees Lolita as an extension of his own obsession. This is what a totalitarian state does. – Azar Nafisi
I became super claustrophobic with Hollywood. I don’t like Hollywood. I don’t like what it represents. I think that Hollywood is great if you’re an actor, actress, established. But for reality people or what people perceive as reality, it’s tough. People are constantly discrediting everything you put on camera. – Brody Jenner
I was completely with the reality TV boom for a while. I really liked a lot of the reality TV, and the one that lost me was the ballroom dancing one they do, ‘Dancing with the Stars.’ That was the one where I watched it and I was perplexed. I thought it was really boring. – Adam McKay
I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children. – Allegra Huston
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. – Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
So far, everything I’ve worked on has been deeply connected to reality. I’m not constitutionally opposed to working on something completely fictional, either. It just happens that a lot of these stories have crossed my path in a way that makes them intriguing, but I’m up for anything that’s intellectually engaging. – Andrew Jarecki
The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all. – Colleen Atwood
In reality, a cell is a biological mini-me compared to the human body. A cell has every biological system that you have. – Bruce Lipton
I think it affected me physically and emotionally, yes. I did have my ups and downs, but I actually had more ups and downs after the shots were finished and she was pregnant because of the reality of being pregnant with twins. – Cheryl Tiegs
When people take off the headset, they immediately have a creative idea about what they can make in virtual reality, and a lot of them immediately want to get involved. – Brendan Iribe
Latinos come from different countries, and they tend to segregate with only their country instead of embracing all the other countries, because in reality, all the Latinos are going through the same experiences of discrimination and racism. – Andrea Navedo
In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it. – Ani DiFranco
The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left’s on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet. – Barney Frank
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance. – Baruch Spinoza
In virtual reality, it’s more about capturing and creating worlds that people are inhabiting. You really are a creator in the way the audience lives within the world that you are building. – Chris Milk
When it comes to fundraising for a social enterprise, if you are pursuing your true passion, you’ll learn to become great at your craft because you’ll care so much about perfecting the skills necessary to make that dream a reality. – Adam Braun
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty. – Alphonse Karr
Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out – that’s what ‘Rehab’ is about. – Antonia Bird
