Reality Quotes - Page 18

• It turns out Dungeons & Dragons is much better on paper than it is in reality.

  Robin Sloan

  Dragons, Dungeons, Paper

  "Robin Sloan’s Low-Tech Triumph". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. November 14, 2012.

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• It's a reality of film festivals that you can't see everything. You're dividing your time between seeing films and utilizing that unique space to have meetings with people that you can't otherwise.

  Thom Powers

  Unique, Space, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Pink culture is presented in a positive, pink and gentle way bordering on the thinking that we are "close" to finding a cure. This does not reflect today's reality of more women dying around the world from this disease and the lack of real progress.

  Leanne Pooley

  Real, Thinking, Progress

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Looking at virtual reality through computer screens, video game screens, and above all television screens is a denial of personality development. It's a denial of socialization, of expansion of vocabulary, of interaction with real human beings.

  Ralph Nader

  Real, Vocabulary, Games

  "A Portrait of the Crusader as a Young Man". Interview with Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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• Television is not my favorite medium, my favorite form of entertainment. Certainly game shows aren't. I don't watch reality shows at all.

  Chuck Barris

  Games, Watches, Television

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 28, 2003.

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• I want to connect music to its highest power - which is heightening consciousness and affecting people's reality. That can't be done in normal ways, not according to my experience.

  Saul Williams

  People, Done, Want

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Symbols mean a lot in politics. They indicate a will and create new realities.

  Francois Hollande

  Mean, Symbols

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• I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.

  Shane Warren Jones

  Thinking, Literature, Fantasy

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. I do not see the artist as a person who sits at a distance and evaluates.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Distance, Artist, Producers

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Artist, Producers, Participants

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• The goal of all my work is essentially the same: demonstrating that magic is real or that reality is magic, by paying attention, and finding compensation or consolation for what is essentially a tragic existence.

  Peter Blegvad

  Real, Goal, Magic

  Interview with Franklin Bruno, believermag.com. November 1, 2009.

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• I usually see the word "metafiction" applied to works that draw attention to their own devices, their own artificiality, in order to mock novelistic convention and show the impossibility of capturing a reality external to the text or whatever.

  Ben Lerner

  Order, Attention, Conventions

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• No matter what the genre, I want to see me and my friends. I want to see reality. I want to see what we're really like. I loved 'Bridesmaids'. I thought it was the most honest portrayal of female friendship in such a long time.

  Drew Barrymore

  Long, Matter, Female

  Interview with Becky Kirsch, www.popsugar.com. November 6, 2015.

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• Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were - neurological misfires. I expected life to be full of sudden, inexplicable surprises. When these things didn't happen for a while, life seemed dull and painful.

  Jim Woodring

  Vision, Dull, Surprise

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• People for whom art is religion can say, "What I love about art is that it points to a higher reality." Well, fine, but the time comes when the smart thing for such a person to do is to let go of the fun of the art and get into the hard work of attaining and understanding that higher reality, unmixed with worldly games.

  Jim Woodring

  Letting Go, Art, Fun

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

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• When your head is smashing into the concrete you don't have question about whether it's a real sensation. And ultimately, that's what's going to unmake us all - smashing up against the physical reality of death and decay, and being unmade.

  Will Sheff

  Real, Decay, Smashing

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Beautiful, Book, Long

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• So herein lies the choice for those of us who are Christians. We can either stay within the Christianity we have mastered with the Jesus we have domesticated, or we can leave Christianity as a destination, embrace Christianity as a way of life, and then journey to reality, where God is present and living in every person, every human community, and all creation.

  Samir Selmanovic

  Christian, Jesus, Lying

  Samir Selmanovic (2009). “It's Really All About God: How Islam, Atheism, and Judaism Made Me a Better Christian”, p.63, John Wiley & Sons

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• Thomas Hauser respects boxing and boxers. He gives readers insight into what happens in and out of the ring. Everything he writes is fair-minded and reality-based with a human touch.

  Lennox Lewis

  Writing, Boxing, Giving

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• On the journey of the warrior-bodhisattva, the path goes down, not up, as if the mountain pointed toward the earth instead of the sky. Instead of transcending the suffering of all creatures, we move toward turbulence and doubt however we can. We explore the reality and unpredictability of insecurity and pain, and we try not to push it away. If it takes years, if it takes lifetimes, we let it be as it is. At our own pace, without speed or aggression, we move down and down and down. With us move millions of others, companions in awakening from fear.

  Pema Chodron

  Pain, Moving, Warrior

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• If Christians would have the same faith in their God that non-Christians have in a mere materialistic idea, 'Thy Kingdom come' would shortly be a reality in this world of sorrow and travail.

  Ben Salmon

  Christian, Ideas, Sorrow

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• Modi Model of Development is more a hype than reality, and the Congress has always stood for inclusive development.

  Preneet Kaur

  Hype, Development, Congress

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• Sometimes having the dream makes you more content than having the reality.

  Lorraine Heath

  Dream, Sometimes

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• If reality is not what you want it to be, change it. You should not accept anything blindly, not death, not immortality.

  Hannu Rajaniemi

  Want, Immortality, Accepting

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• First, believe in your ability to create the future. That's what leaders do-that is our job. Understand reality but never be imprisoned by it. Reality is a moment in time. The future has not yet been written-it is written by leaders.

  Mark Millar

  Jobs, Believe, Leader

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