I’m pretty captivated by reality TV and I know that as an actor I probably shouldn’t be saying that, but it’s what I like to watch. – Nikki Cox
I think that, if there are topics that are just on people’s minds, things manifest into reality out of the sort of global consciousness of being aware of those topics. – Neill Blomkamp
The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains. – Mark Skousen
The real magic is in making the intangible idea, the creative impulse, manifest and live in our reality. – Mark Ryan
I think the life of an actor is glamorous to other people, but then the reality sets in: you don’t know where you will be next year or how long you’ll be there for. – Joel Edgerton
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality. – James A. Michener
In general, when you travel, you get into a different reality and are able to more accurately reflect on your ordinary life. Hiking does that for me. – John Mackey
I don’t like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life. – Jean Paul Gaultier
I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it! – Isabel Allende
I have a foot here and a foot in some spirit world. There are many more layers to reality, and that permeates my life and my writing in a very natural way. I don’t even think about it. – Isabel Allende
If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves! – Joyce Meyer
There’s this perception of D.C. as a boring town run by old white men, but in reality, there are incredibly young people in charge of really important things. – Kristin Gore
The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick. If they told the reality, no one would care. – Kevin Mitnick
I think Direct Cinema’s trying to be insightful by looking at reality in a very close way while, in fact, much more is staged than we like to think. In cinema verite, it’s about trying to make something invisible visible – the role of fantasy and imagination in everyday life. – Joshua Oppenheimer
One thing I think is that comics are really good at expressing emotion. I think there’s a way that comics characters can be drawn not-realistically, but the emotional reality is still very sincere. So you can have these exaggerations that express inner emotion through physical appearance. – Jeffrey Brown
When my TV show, ‘Sports Jobs with Junior Seau,’ assigned me to be a ‘Sports Illustrated’ reporter for a weekend, I didn’t realize I’d have to squeeze it in around another sports job. I had planned to retire from the NFL to enjoy the cushy lifestyle of a full-time reality TV star, but I wound up getting run over by a bull. – Junior Seau
When you’re dead weight, in the right position, you win. And in reality, you wouldn’t see someone my size kicking seven martial arts experts and winning. – Joan Severance
Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony. – Jonathan Raban
A house isn’t really understandable until it settles into the site: until it’s built, furnished and lived in for four or five years. The reality is not on paper but in how a building sits on the land – how it relates to trees, to slopes, to water, to gardens. – Jaquelin T. Robertson
In terms of so-called fly-on-the-wall documentaries, there’s a claim that the camera is a transparent window into a pre-existing reality. What really is happening is that the film crew and the subjects are collaborating to simulate a reality in which they pretend the camera is not present. – Joshua Oppenheimer
In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar. – Jeff Goodell
Pain is something that’s common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren’t engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester. – Karen Armstrong
The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition. – Kim Young-sam
People say that soundstage sets never quite look like reality. But actually, they can. They can be as real as you want as long as you pay attention to the kind of detail that is given for free in a real place. – Lenny Abrahamson
When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality. – Julie Taymor
In an encounter with divine reality, we do not hear a voice but acquire a voice, and the voice we acquire is our own. – James P. Carse
‘Playboy’ made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings – not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself. – LeRoy Neiman
We will never abdicate the security of the United States to a foreign country or refrain from taking action when appropriate. But we cannot ignore the reality that cooperative counterterrorism activities are a key to our national defense. – John O. Brennan
Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I’ve observed or someone’s told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality. – Laura Wade
