Quotes About Reality

In a Photoshopped world, only the skeptical eye prevails.

To me, form is not something that you can plan beforehand, especially for a documentary. You can't write it or sketch it. It requires a confrontation with reality, with history, with ethics and morals. After identifying good content, you have to find the right form to express that content.

Do I post pictures of my overflowing laundry basket or the dirty dishes by the sink? No, I'll probably post a pic of the finished meal looking pretty. We're all skewed in what we show.

Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.

There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.

When you graduate and come out with a degree in drama, that doesn't mean you're skilled and you're a professional.

Reality shows make you more bold and you learn new skills like dancing, anchoring.

As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.

No Child Left Behind widens the gap between the races more than any piece of educational legislation I've seen in 40 years. It denies inner-city kids the critical-thinking skills to interrogate reality.

Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.

Beauty is only skin deep.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

All my life, my girlfriends are always skinny. Beauty in art has nothing to do with beauty in reality. Why do you like primitive art? Because there is beauty in the deformity. Sometimes paintings that people consider realistic are not at all. Raphael figures look realistic, but in real life, they were deformed.

The great thing about 'Skins' is that it's not '90210.' We don't have to look stick-thin and ripped. Those shows send out the wrong messages by showing body-perfect people but not mentioning that they spend four hours a day in the gym to look that way.

You get really disillusioned, because you thought you were in love. But you realize that you're just alone.

Commitment means losing yourself to gain something temporary. Nothing lasts. Not looks. Not love.

I love The West Wing for many reasons. The show has been a fantasy. But we have offered a parallel universe to reality.

When love ends, the beloved is no longer standing on a pedestal, but in a hole.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

When you become thoughtless, then you can see, feel Reality.

Reality is only possible if you are in the realm of joy.

We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.