Allen W. Wood Quotes
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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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There's no mystery any more. So my instinct is to show very little, because there's much too much information about everyone, everywhere right now. Reality TV is an example of that.
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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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What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems.
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Thought makes reality.
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I believe that pop culture is just, like, so ready for 'Watchmen.' We tried so hard to ride that wave between satire and reality, and all the things that make you still care about the character, but you don't miss the commentary about them.
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Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing games... 'The Matrix,' 'Snow Crash,' all this fiction was not about sitting in a room playing video games. It's about being in a parallel digital world that exists alongside our own, communicating with other people, playing with other people.
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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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I don't think we're going to see the price of oil going down in the near future, that's the 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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People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.
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The reality is that no one can be forced to join a union against their will, and a union cannot take action against those who decide not to join their union.
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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don't like soaps, reality TV or celebrity chefs.
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Reality is what we want it to be or what we do not want it to be, but it is not our wanting or our not wanting that makes it so.
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All sense of reality had gone out of her life; she had abandoned herself to fate, and awaited the consequences with indifference.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final. It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Blended-reality technology could play in a limited, walled-garden world, but history suggests that it won't really take off until it offers broad freedom of use.
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That's always the question. How to defend yourself without being nasty.
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For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
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The trumpet's loud clangorExcites us to arms.
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As soon as I put my foot on Indian soil, my painting underwent a change not only in subject and spirit but in technique.
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In general, those who defend capitalism are basically out of touch with reality.
