Adam Curtis Quotes
Documentaries shouldn't just reflect the world: they should try and explain why reality is like it is.
Adam Curtis
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The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pales in comparison with the actual, face-to-face experience.
Warren Spector
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Reality is what you can count on.
Dallas Willard
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I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.
Taylor Sheridan
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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
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When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime.
Uzo Aduba
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I believe that one of the secret engines that allows cinema to work, and have the marvelous power over us that it does, is the fact that for thousands of years we have spent eight hours every night in a 'cinematic' dream-state, and so are familiar with this version of reality.
Walter Murch
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I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.
Naveen Andrews
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The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.
Nancy Grace
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality...
Larry Wall
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I try to encourage people to look at our past in a critical way because as our education, we have a great, great history. But in reality we are poorest in ethics and philosophy, so I try to raise people’s consciousness on how we deal with our past.
Ai Weiwei
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Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.
Adam Smith
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The happiest people are those with the fewest regrets. It is not because they have succeeded in everything they've tried; rather, they're happier because they at least put forth the effort - win or lose -and tried to make their thoughts and dreams a reality.
Ian K. Smith
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The individual who has been liberated by reason is always running head-on into a world, a society, whose past in the shape of 'prejudices' has a great deal of power; he is forced to learn that past reality is also a reality.
Hannah Arendt
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What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.
Barry Eisler
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For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.
Gary Bauer
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Documentaries shouldn't just reflect the world: they should try and explain why reality is like it is.
Adam Curtis
