Wallace Stevens Quotes
Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
Quotes to Explore
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference.
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When I first joined 'Dancing with the Stars,' I did not want to do it. It's not what I like, it's not what I believe in... the judges are fake, this is fake, that is fake... there is not a lot of reality.
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.
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Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?
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In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
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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.
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I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.
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Every reality show plot pales in comparison to our history.
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I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
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I thought for a very long time that I had to conform or maybe change the way I look, or maybe the hijab was dimming my beauty. I took a moment, and then I realized, you know what, there's a lot of girls who do wear this, and this is their reality. It just made me even more prouder to wear it.
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Tradition has made women cowardly.
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I made one untitled piece.
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Reality... includes a perceiver, who has memories, thoughts, desires, emotions - which a normal camera tends to omit.
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And such too is the grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead.
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Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.
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Stop right there!I gotta know right now!Before we go any further - Do you love me?Will you love me forever?
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I finally think they get it. When you've experienced something by doing that certain thing consistently well - defense - they get it.
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Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
