David Harley Quotes
Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality.
David Harley
Quotes to Explore
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People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
Baltasar Kormakur
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Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
Taylor Hanson
Hanson
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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.
Lance Reddick
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People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
Olivier Megaton
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I do not think that any realism is beautiful.
H. P. Lovecraft
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My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.
Laura Marling
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I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
Manuel Puig
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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.
Beau Willimon
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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
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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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You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
Walt Disney
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If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination.
Harold Brodkey
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What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.
Max Beckmann
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What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.
Andy Kaufman
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Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.
Joanne Harris
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You know, they just don't make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has changed, the studio system, but it's sad to see people like Jimmy Stewart go, all the giants of the past.
Tom Atkins
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While in my late teens and in my 20s, I worked seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I worked my tail off.
John Catsimatidis
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Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality.
David Harley
