Reality Quotes
  
  
  
	
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		When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept - the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Updike
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Reality is only a term, based on values and well worn principles, whereas the dream goes on forever.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ian Curtis
			
			
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		The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Orson Welles
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		For me, to do a reality show is like sending myself to actor's graveyard. I feel like I should wait and create my own projects... do independent movies before I would have to go and do reality shows. Or produce one and come up with one on my own!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Tamala Jones
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Larry Wilcox
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Certainly Afghans in general and women in particular want a country in which security is a daily reality rather than a campaign slogan or the focus of drive-by speeches from diplomats dropping in for the day.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		'Heartbeats' is a film on people magnifying and subliming reality when they're in love. Hence the overstylized look, the aesthetics, the robes, the dresses, the vintage, hipster-ish look: All of this is voluntary. I'm not a hipster. I'm not!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Xavier Dolan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I feel like a lot of people think of Hollywood as being fake, but it's only perceived that way because it takes 10 people to make someone look the way that they do. In reality, they're there because they are doing what they're passionate about.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Vanessa Hudgens
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Baruch Spinoza
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. I have a million shows on my TiVo.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kaley Cuoco
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The reality is, if a woman is married to man with a title, she gets a title. I think everybody should have the same opportunities and the same privileges and the same honours.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Furnish
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alexander McQueen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Death is always a reality, and life is incredibly short.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Isaac Hanson
			
			
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		When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Octavio Paz
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Most of the information we now get is through television and is mutilated. Photography offers the opportunity to spend much more time on a topic. It's relatively cheaper medium, and can allow a photographer really to live in another place, show another reality, get closer to the truth.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sebastiao Salgado
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		As I trace the route to his apartment, the twists and turns, and pass once more the old tree opposite his house, I am struck by a sudden thought: memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they can make us resent those we once accepted and loved unconditionally.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Azar Nafisi