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Reality Quotes
"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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"It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to."
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"This isn't my excuse, this is my reality."
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"It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality."
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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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"I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table."
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"It is a very remarkable and significant fact that though no man is quite well or healthy yet every one believes practically that health is the rule & disease the exception."
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"Alas! another instance of the triumph of hope over experience."
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"It is a mistake," LabruyA re tells us, "to be in love without an ample fortune."
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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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"Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty."
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"When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world."
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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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"I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it."
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"If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality."
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"We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality."
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"We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us."
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"Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal."
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"Real life isn't purely filled with roses and rainbows."
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"And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the unfairness as proof of the sublime flux of existence, the capricious music of the universe- and go on about our tasks."
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"The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality."
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"We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place."
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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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"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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