Quotes About Reality

So many of the things I talk about in 'Reality Hunger' seem to be the things that 'The Thing About Life' does - things like risk, contradiction, compression, mixing modes of attack from the memoristic gesture to data-crunching.

If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet.

I had a show on HGTV with my mom and grandma called 'My Flipping Family.'

You can't live for a moment that may not happen. You need to live in the moment.

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

I mean, if a camera's on you all the time, you don't get real moments.

I've had moments where it's like being in the Matrix.

There's always moments where you creep yourself out, and you think you heard something and you convince yourself that some spirit is in the room with you, but truly, I don't believe in any of that kind of thing. A lot of my friends really do.

From Abby Lee Miller's intensity and her students' incredible performances to their devoted moms and its high drama, 'Dance Moms' has become one of the most compelling shows on television.

'Dance Moms' was one of the best experiences I've ever had in my life!

The facts are, the reality is, you can't really enjoy it. You win a football match and by the time you get to Saturday night, having a beer or a Chinese, you're already thinking about Monday morning, the next game.

No matter how much money you have, you can lose it.

People don't get it; they think I'm rich. I'm not! I have no money.

Film has a magical process to it. The dailies, and the thing you see on your little film monitor, that's not the same thing that's going to be projected.

I was on 'In Search of the Partridge Family,' MTV'S 'Miss Seventeen,' and the comedy 'Love Monkey.'

I'm not a massive spender. I look at the bank balance building, but it just looks like Monopoly money, really.

Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.

Marilyn Monroe appeared to be perfect, but she wasn't perfect.

Sometimes you see a monster sitting down in a chair and it looks ridiculous.

I love 'Extreme Makeover Home Edition.' It feeds my Fantasy Dream Home monster that lives inside of me.

Professional sports is a monster. It's not even real life. It's one of the few things in life, the economy goes bad, you still get your money.

With 'River Monsters,' it sometimes didn't matter if the story was made up or exaggerated.

I do believe that there are monsters out there - and that they are monsters.

Since coming to Congress in 1971, I have been fighting to help create an environment where the goals of the National Work and the Family Month can become a reality.