Reality Quotes
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I like illusion when it is so convincing that we might as well see reality this way - I like to present to our belief system something that is convincing, that 'we know not to be.'
James Turrell
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I was sent to boarding school at the age of ten. I think Mummy was trying to protect me in her own way, trying to spare me living through the day-to-day reality of her illness.
Lysette Anthony
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If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.
Caitlyn Jenner
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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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Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.
Eckhart Tolle
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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.
Barbara Mandrell
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I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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He showed no fear. It seemed that, at the commencement, his race had known gods and no other. Gods had bound and ill treated and slaughtered and played with them. Gods were a fact, as were the sun and the shaking of the earth. Just another terrible reality.
Tanith Lee
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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
Lloyd Alexander
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Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.
Gabrielle Union
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Few things are more commonly misunderstood than the nature and meaning of theocracy. It is commonly assumed to be a dictatorial rule by self-appointed men who claim to rule for God. In reality, theocracy in Biblical law is the closest thing to a radical libertarianism that can be had.
R.J. Rushdoony
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I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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You think about the artists I look at as icons, and you assume they were instantly embraced. That's usually not the case. In reality, they had to overcome a lot of noes to get where they wanted to be.
Sam Hunt
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I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.
Hanif Kureishi
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When I was quite young... I began to suspect there must be flaws in my sense of reality. It seemed to my dim sense of confusion that things often blended one into another, and the Law of Excluded Middle merely opened up a void wherein anything was possible. But I had been produced to focus on objects (things) and not on systems (processes).
Frank Herbert
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I'm not by nature a cynical person. But sometimes your expectations are different from reality.
Fred Armisen
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You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.
Catherynne M. Valente
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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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It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.
Martin Mull
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While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.
Dweezil Zappa
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Playing the villain gets you higher ratings on reality TV and saying outrageous stuff on Twitter gets you more followers.
Van Jones
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Seeing someone happy on set is just a very small slice of the reality of an actor's life.
Katherine Waterston
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Fear warps our understanding of reality and even our ability to see reality clearly.
Victor LaValle
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Every member of Congress deserves a seat at the table to be involved in the process. I will continue fighting for this to become a reality in Washington, and will be running for speaker of the House.
Dan Webster