Adam Curtis Quotes
Documentaries shouldn't just reflect the world: they should try and explain why reality is like it is.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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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.
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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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Reality is what you can count on.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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Poetry is the deification of reality.
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The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.
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In a lot of action films, a lot of guys are driving muscle cars or vintage cars, whereas in reality, a lot of getaway drivers would actually choose, like, commuter cars and find a way to blend into freeway traffic as quickly as possible.
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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 have lots of favorite shows, but not reality! I don't like reality TV so much. I'm saddened by people who don't show respect to each other and to themselves. It's horrible. Unfortunately, that's demonstrated a lot on reality television.
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In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.
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The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they work, don't actually make that much money.
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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.
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I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.
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The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.
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My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.
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The United States was proud to stand with the people of Germany as this nation and this continent reunited and rebuilt and reached for a better future.
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If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.
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There are a lot of similarities to that situation. I remember sitting on the plane with Bob Boone, and he said, 'Sometimes when you let the air out of a balloon, it's hard to pump it up again.' That's how we felt.
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Documentaries shouldn't just reflect the world: they should try and explain why reality is like it is.
