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Reality Quotes

My personal opinion is that, if you’re a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every day I do try to write 800-1,200 words. I don’t always achieve it, and the reality is that a lot of the words I write will end up on the cutting-room floor.

– Chris Bohjalian

This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I’m speaking as a border state.

– Gary Johnson

I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because they’ve been on reality TV or something.

– Damian Lewis

I have been a Cowboys fan since I was a little bitty boy. And my dream has finally become a reality, of not only just playing a professional, becoming a professional athlete, but playing for the team that I always wanted to play for.

– Emmitt Smith

You tend to compose things more in the middle of frame in 3-D than you would in a conventional frame. You can really see composition in 2-D but in 3-D your composition is much more complex. Everything has to be artificially enhanced. But you do gain something else with 3-D: you have a sense of space and heightened reality.

– Caleb Deschanel

Filibusters should require 35 senators to… make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. The number of votes needed to overcome a filibuster should be reduced to 55 from 60.

– Evan Bayh

I think about things like the fact that nobody knows what time is. Time is what? Nobody can describe it, even physics or math or anything else. But it is what we continuously experience. It’s the state of our unfolding, in a way, and in that sense that the continuous reopening of reality is what I think of as, perhaps, a worldview.

– Marilynne Robinson

The CGI landscape is another world. It has its own physical laws; it can defy gravity. But surely the wonder of cinematic space is that it is wedded to reality?

– Geoff Dyer

I was affected by the harshness of government, the reality of 16-hour days, and the pressures of modern communications.

– David Blunkett

My son died from cancer. My granddaughter died from cancer. I have a lot of reasons to think that reality is not a friendly neighborhood. And the stories that I tell distract me, and if I do the job right, they distract people from things that are happening to them that they wish had never happened.

– David Morrell

I had innumerable analysts who came to me in apology that the world that we were finding was not the world that they had thought existed and that they had estimated. Reality on the ground differed in advance.

– David Kay

People always say to me, ‘You’ve really strived to redefine retail.’ But the reality is, I wanted to redefine magazines.

– Natalie Massenet

I’m able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.

– Curtis Sittenfeld

You have to remember that reality shows capture your worst moments.

– Nicole Polizzi

I have done a lot of reality shows. In fact,my first show was ‘Shava Shava’, which was a singing reality show.

– Mouni Roy

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.

– Eric Cantona

The laws of literature, like the laws of gossip, usually demand exaggeration, decontextualization, a heightened or minimalized reality, and a lot more shape and order and impact than everyday life.

– Michelle Huneven

I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it’s grounded in reality.

– Erin Morgenstern

I touched the limits of our political system, which pushes one to last-minute compromises. Explanations are rarely given. It plays to people’s fears because it hasn’t built an ideological consensus. It produces flawed solutions and too often ignores reality.

– Emmanuel Macron

When you watch these reality shows, the person that is hated on the most is usually the one that gets the most shine.

– NeNe Leakes

A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author’s role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.

– Natsuo Kirino

Do you know how much land is under ice, rock and snow? Do you know why 90 percent of us live within 100 kilometres of the U.S. border? We have this idea we’re a vast country. But the reality is that a lot of it, a huge amount, is uninhabitable.

– David Suzuki

The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality.

– Craig Johnston

Why do you think the fans like us – why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we’re telling the real story of what it’s like living in places like Compton. We’re giving them reality. We’re like reporters. We give them the truth.

– Eazy-E

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

– Gabriel Garcia Marquez

If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.

– Edmund Husserl

My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in the manner of the other creatures, but are instead participants in a reality that utterly exceeds our powers of description.

– Marilynne Robinson

When I was younger, people kept making offers for different reality shows and stuff.

– Cassidy Gifford

There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation.

– Charles Hermite

But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good.

– Dweezil Zappa

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