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		Being a recording artist, selling music, selling concerts out, having a reality show, starting film; it's great, it's beautiful.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jenni Rivera
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ed Smith
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I have always been clear about what I wanted to do and who I wanted to dress. However, you need that business sense to help direct your talent. Because at the end of the day, you are selling clothes, and that is the reality which we live in.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Matthew Williamson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If a person is open to a new world view, it can often mean that he is not firmly rooted in the reality of the old world view; as a lunatic or alienated artist, his own neurotic traits can become magnified as they tremble with the new energy pouring in from the universal source.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Irwin Thompson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I don't like this instinct of reality television to wear your lifestyle in public. I've really always loved the anonymity of things.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bill Pullman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Politically speaking, you don't necessarily give away information that allows your enemy to get an upper hand. But at the same time you don't keep reality from the population.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dwight Schultz
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Fvery time Anthony and I are supposed to fight, the lines come out, and it's like we're dead even. It's like people don't know what to make of a fight between Daniel Cormier and Anthony Johnson, when in reality, it should be very easy to know what to make of a fight between me and Anthony Johnson.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Daniel Cormier
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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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.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Zack Snyder
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In wartime Shanghai I saw so many horrors … Civilised life is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is, we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				J. G. Ballard
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If you find something greater than yourself, to move you! Then you will make every single dream, become a reality!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Eric Thomas
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Orhan Pamuk
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Yes, I could win the Olympics. I hope to, and that's what I'm training for. But it's really going to come down to me racing on that day... Just being really calm and mature about what the reality is - that's my strategy.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mark de Jonge
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Held in the custody of childhood is a locked chest; the adolescent, by one means or another, tries to open it. The chest is opened: inside, there is nothing. So he reaches a conclusion: the treasure chest is always like this, empty. From this point on, he gives priority to this assumption of his rather than to reality. In other words, he is now a 'grown-up.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Yukio Mishima
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				A. C. Benson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dana Perino
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				S. E. Hinton