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Reality Quotes

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

– Gary Oldman

I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn’t eradicate the reality of the suffering. It’s all true at once, kind of humming and sublime.

– George Saunders

There definitely is exposure in reality shows, but the exposure will basically get you more reality shows.

– Gilbert Gottfried

I don’t say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it’s a matter of dealing with reality. It’s purely peripheral and, in many cases, it’s just a facade.

– Norman Granz

Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called Life.

– Patty Duke

I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered… I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening.

– Eve Arnold

Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.

– David Walliams

The thing you can’t let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in a sitcom, and the next wave isn’t a reaction to the reality of that, you start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies, they throw out the rules of life.

– Michael Patrick King

The reality is is that Congress is a very male-gendered oriented institution. Out of the, you know, more than 10,000 people who’ve ever been elected to Congress, you know, only about 250 of them have ever been women.

– Gwen Moore

I don’t watch reality TV.

– Dave Attell

To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.

– Dennis Prager

I’ve always been interested in how to present something that relates to our reality – which is not really… I don’t even know if documentary itself does as good a job. It has its own problems in trying to get at the reality of the situation.

– Gus Van Sant

‘The HoneyLine’ is my web site and TV segments that were birthed out of the stark reality that we all need a few people to help navigate this life.

– Gabrielle Reece

Switch off reality TV! I’ve only ever been able watch about 30 seconds of it.

– Daphne Guinness

All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.

– Marguerite Young

The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.

– Nancy Cartwright

President Barack Obama talks about the need to ‘invest’ in alternative energy sources. But the reality is that he is not investing his money – he’s spending yours.

– Mike Pompeo

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

– David Cronenberg

Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it’s always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It’s not really real to me; there’s no reality to it.

– Paul Giamatti

When you do a reality show and host shows, it’s hard to have secrets.

– Giuliana Rancic

Fvery time Anthony and I are supposed to fight, the lines come out, and it’s like we’re dead even. It’s like people don’t know what to make of a fight between Daniel Cormier and Anthony Johnson, when in reality, it should be very easy to know what to make of a fight between me and Anthony Johnson.

– Daniel Cormier

I’m most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That’s my forte.

– Mary Ellen Mark

Look, miracles in the Middle East are a reality.

– Ehud Olmert

It has become progressively clearer that the plastic expression of true reality is attained through dynamic movement in equilibrium. Plastic art affirms that equilibrium can only be established through the balance of unequal but equivalent oppositions.

– Piet Mondrian

It is a job requirement of U.S. envoys to El Salvador to be skilled in the art of the threat. And Aponte, named ambassador in 2010, is a pro. In particular, she’s been tasked with making sure the former insurgent FMLN, which first won the presidency in 2009 and was reelected in 2014, reconciles itself to neoliberal reality.

– Greg Grandin

When I got picked up by the Tapout crew and was featured on their reality show, that really jumpstarted my career.

– Donald Cerrone

Poetry is the deification of reality.

– Edith Sitwell

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

– Desiderius Erasmus

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

– Paulo Coelho

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

– Clarence Day

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