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Reality Quotes
"Even if I'm playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality."
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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."
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"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
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"I read that Monica Seles got stabbed. And although I have nothing against Monica Seles, I'm glad somebody in sports got stabbed. I like the idea of it; it's good entertainment. If we're lucky, it'll spread through sports. And show business, too! Wouldn't you like to see a guy jump up on stage and stab some famous singer? Especially a real shitty pop singer? Maybe they'll even start stabbing comedians. Fuck it, I'm ready! I never perform without my can of mace. I have a switchblade knife, too. I'll cut your eye out and go right on telling jokes."
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"My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality."
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"The worst is still ahead of us. But no one in Washington has the spine to tell you that."
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"I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor."
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"I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality."
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"Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached."
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"Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire."
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"Don't be carried away by beauty, for the faeces also stays in the rectum of ravishing faces, and their private life is not beautiful as their public life...fear beauty!"
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"I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality."
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"In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear."
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"Harry Potter isn't real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am I real if you can see me and hear me, but only through the internet? Are you real if I can read your comment but I don't know who you are or what your name is or where you're from or what you look like or how old you are? I know all of those things about Harry Potter. Maybe Harry Potter's real and you're not."
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"Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded."
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"In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment."
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"Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days."
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"If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality."
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"It is a mistake," LabruyA re tells us, "to be in love without an ample fortune."
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"The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation."
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"But that's why you're upset now. Fiction is not life.''You don't believe that.''I think I do.''You know as well as I do that the line can't be drawn, that we're infected at every moment by fictions of all kinds, that it's inescapable.''Don't be a sophist,' he said. 'There is a world and it's palpable.''I don't mean that,' I said. 'I mean that it's hard really to see it, that it's all hazy with out dreams and fantasies."
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"This isn't my excuse, this is my reality."
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"I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it."
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"Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is."
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"I'd like to be an assistant producer to a reality show."
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"It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality."
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"What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting."
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"Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you."
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"I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened."
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"There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet."
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