Quotes About Reality

We actually form the world at every instant, although we're not cognitively aware of that but - and there are people would argue with that to some degree.

The first rule is you have to create a reality that makes the reader want to come back and see what happens next. The way I tried to do it, I'd create characters that the reader could instantly recognize, and hopefully bond with, and put them through situations that keep the reader on the edge of their seat.

My parents thought they were getting an accountant and a lawyer. Instead, they ended up with a PR and an actress.

A lot of people say my songs are political, but that's not by plan. It's because I never found a place where everything is OK, so I just write about what my reality is, follow my instinct.

I can't believe they would cancel 'Big Brother!' It's like an institution!

I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.

None of us are as insulated from poverty as we think.

I want to say something in a tough-love kind of way about crop insurance. Let's face it: You don't buy insurance on your house hoping it will burn down. Neither do we want to buy crop insurance and hope our crop fails so we can file.

People want the security, the insurance, the 401K, and all that stuff and it's all crap, OK. There is no such thing as security. What you've got is right now - you don't have tomorrow; you don't have next week. You have right now.

Slipknot is about integrity and reality!

I think if something's emotionally real - and I'm not even talking about in movies or in art, but in life - you can't really argue with that, even if your intellectual mind might know differently.

I realized we're all walking around asleep, intellectually comatose, dead to the facts.

Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if they cannot find it, they attempt to create it.

In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.

People get confused when they see my shows, but that isn't the intention. My intention is to destabilize the act of seeing.

I learned that as much as you think when you're walking down that aisle that this forever, sometimes it's just not forever. You can have the best of intentions.

I really loved getting to interact with an animal or a baby or a kid in a scene because they don't really know that you're acting. They don't know that this isn't reality.

Sometimes we feel like we're only interacting with what's already happening; we don't actually affect anything - sometimes I feel like that, anyway.

I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.

I have had enough of an interesting life to not embellish it in any way.

I feel like money is an interesting thing when you don't come from it.

The Bachelor's' a very interesting thing, you can't fake your way through it.

One of the interesting things about my father was that what you see on-camera is a lot of what he was like in real life.

The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the same as the defense budgets or military budgets of every other country in the world put together.