Disbelief Quotes - Page 2

• The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.

  Vera Farmiga

  Jobs, Character, Media

  "Vera Farmiga: 'I demand a lot from myself'" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2011.

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• A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off, but I can't help it.

  Michael Showalter

  Thinking, People, Feelings

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• I think audiences have hit the wall with CGI and special effects. They have seen so many over-the-top events that they can't suspend disbelief.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Wall, Thinking, Special

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• For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.

  Oren Peli

  Real, Style, Way

  "Behind the Scenes With Paranormal Activity Creator" by Joel Meares, www.wired.com. September 27, 2011.

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• I find it peculiar when people scoff at one bold idea, and yet they'll then turn over and watch a man travel through time in a police phone box.

  Tom Mison

  Men, Phones, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sadness, Men, Misery

  On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic "The Hero as Divinity" (1841)

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• The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief

  Thomas Carlyle

  Battle, Belief, Ends

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• One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.

  Rex Stout

  Believe, Effort, Important

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• Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing.

  Edward Norton

  Character, People, Actors

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

  Oscar Wilde

  Liars, Lying, Stories

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Hope, Believe

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.142, Oxford University Press

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• Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.

  Gillian Anderson

  Reality, Pages, Scripts

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• The word 'Antichrist', to me, is the collective disbelief in god.

  Marilyn Manson

  Antichrist, Collectives, Anti Christ

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• When he realized who he'd pulled over, the policeman shook his head in disbelief. He told me of all people I should know better. He gave me a real dressing down, but let me go.

  Dennis Franz

  Real, People, Should

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• What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is 'true': it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed. You are then out in the Primary World again, looking at the little abortive Secondary World from outside.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Art, Believe, Successful

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.351, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.

  Dalai Lama

  Trust, Wisdom, Peace

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• Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger.

  George W. Bush

  Airplane, Sadness, Fire Burning

  9/11 Address to the Nation, delivered 11 September, Oval Office, Washington, D.C.

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• Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. Such a society, no matter how long it persists, can never afford to become either tolerant or intellectually stable.

  George Orwell

  Running, Past, Class

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• Listen, Michael Jackson is really funny. To have time to spend with him and actually be around him, he's not what....people think he is. Michael Jackson's like a black belt too, so he will kick your ass if you say something about him." In disbelief the interviewer replied "No, really?" to which Will said, "Yes, Michael Jackson kicked over my head!

  Will Smith

  Thinking, People, Black

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• Stick to the old truths and the old paths, and learn their di- vineness by sick-beds and in every-day work, and do not darken your mind with intellectual puzzles, which may breed disbelief, but can never breed vital religion or practical usefulness.

  Charles Kingsley

  Truth, Sick, Mind

  Charles Kingsley, Frances Eliza Kingsley (2011). “Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life”, p.131, Cambridge University Press

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• The angel said, "I like black-and-white films more than color because they're more artificial. You have to work harder to overcome your disbelief. It's sort of like prayer.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Prayer, Angel, Black And White

  Jonathan Carroll (2008). “The Ghost in Love: A Novel”, p.40, Macmillan

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• Would you have done that in his place? Would you have left him and gone on?" "Of course I would!" Halt replied immediately. But something in his voice rang false and Horse looked at him, raising one eyebrow. He'd waited a long time for an opportunity to use that expression of disbelief on Halt. After a pause, the Ranger's anger subsided. "All right. Perhaps I wouldn't," he admitted. Then he glared at Horace. "And stop raising that eyebrow on me. You can't even do it properly. Your other eyebrow moves with it!

  John Flanagan

  Horse, Moving, Opportunity

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• They haven't left us much to believe, have they? — even disbelief. I can't believe in anything bigger than a home, or anything vaguer than a human being.

  Graham Greene

  Believe, Home, Bigger

  "Triple pursuit: a Graham Greene omnibus".

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• Al was looking at me in disbelief. “Not your lover?” “No.” “But he is Rachel candy,” Al said, his confusion too honest to be faked.

  Kim Harrison

  Confusion, Als, Lovers

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• "Are you all right?” he asked Olivia. His heart was still racing with terror that she’d been hurt. “I heard a woman scream.”
  “Ah, that would have been me,” Sebastian said.
  Harry looked down on his cousin, face frozen in disbelief. “You made that noise?”
  “It hurt,” Sebastian bit off. Harry fought not to laugh. “You scream like a leettle girl."

  Julia Quinn

  Girl, Cousin, Hurt

  "What Happens In London". Book by Julia Quinn, 2011.

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