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Reality Quotes

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

– Charles Ives

It isn’t as if a writer merely records life as it unfurls. Reality does not automatically transcribe as literature; real people are not shapely, compelling characters to be harvested. Charming facts and sharp observations rarely slide seamlessly into whatever narrative is at hand.

– Michelle Huneven

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

– Paul Auster

I’ve always enjoyed film, but I’m a little afraid of it because I think it is very powerful as a medium. You have the visuals, the sound, the colors, all of these things coming at you, and they transport you physically so it becomes this surround sound, virtual reality.

– Mickalene Thomas

I was a sci-fi addict when I was a kid and a teenager. Novels, graphic novels, movies, it was my way to deal with reality.

– Denis Villeneuve

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before.

– Elizabeth Edwards

People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.

– David Brooks

Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality.

– Michael Arlen

The reality is that al Qaeda has been trying to attack the United States since long before Iraq.

– Ed Royce

The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances.

– Paul Harris

The cruel ambush of 9/11 supposedly ‘changed everything,’ slapping us back to reality. Yet we are constantly shocked, shocked by the foreseeable.

– Frank Rich

I am tired of hearing about Coach Harbaugh; I think he needs to get in check with reality because, at the end of the day, you can’t talk smack about a rivalry when you haven’t won a rivalry game. You got to win ballgames to be able to talk behind it.

– Ezekiel Elliott

Perhaps it’s because I am reading romance differently than I did when I was younger, but I like my characters older. Grounded in reality. And nothing is more real than kids.

– Molly O’Keefe

I’m parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn’t true. The parody doesn’t reflect reality.

– Pat Robertson

I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities, of flying, if I may say, of making my hopes and dreams a reality.

– Michelle Bachelet

He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.

– Ernest Bramah

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

– Earl Nightingale

Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.

– Philip K. Dick

I don’t like, and I’ve never been very good at, close-up shots. As soon as you have the camera right there in front of you, it feels like you’re in a different reality from the person you are acting with; you lose any real connection with them.

– Eve Best

Local images have one kind of reality. ‘U.S. 1’ will, I hope, have that kind and another, too. Poetry can extend the document.

– Muriel Rukeyser

Of course, Minneapolis, we think, ‘Oh well, it’s cold there, lethally cold.’ But the reality is you adapt to weather… Humans are consummately adaptable creatures.

– Dan Buettner

As the Internet of things advances, the very notion of a clear dividing line between reality and virtual reality becomes blurred, sometimes in creative ways.

– Geoff Mulgan

The same stimuli in the world can be inducing very different experiences internally and it’s probably based on a single change in a gene. What I am doing is pulling the gene forward and imaging and doing behavioural tests to understand what that difference is and how reality can be constructed so differently.

– David Eagleman

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.

– Mira Nair

Whenever I feel like I’m getting too far away from where I need to be, I think about my sons and the legacy I have to leave for them – and it always brings me back to reality.

– Dwyane Wade

The reality is that no one can be forced to join a union against their will, and a union cannot take action against those who decide not to join their union.

– Dan Lipinski

It’s like watching a car accident, that reality TV.

– Enrico Colantoni

Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect?

– Palmer Luckey

When you get to experience something that is outside of your reality, it changes you.

– Gisele Bundchen

I mean, Iceland is Iceland. It can’t do damage to anybody unless you’re Icelandic. But the United States can drag down the entire western economy. And I think what we are seeing is simply a reflection of reality. This is not, I’m sorry, but this is not a AAA nation.

– Mark Steyn

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