Quotes About Reality

Not many things bug me, but if there's one thing that does, it's the idea that my story is a football fairytale.

When it comes to modeling, I always feel like my body is a myth or a story that is told by other people, and no one knows what my body really looks like.

When you write stories linking reality to a big storyline, people relate to it better.

I'm just an old storyteller, and I always wanted to know, what the hell were these candidates really like?

I grew up in a family of storytellers, but Google has destroyed us because you can fact-check everything. We'd always like the stories to be a little better than they were.

In the end, it's about the reality. You want something that's believable in the performances; you want something that's believable in the storytelling, in the writing. You just want to connect to something that you feel is real.

Storytelling, mythology and film provide a lot of hope but, on the flip side, can also create delusion.

I think George R. R. Martin made fantasy grow up. He brought a level of reality into the storytelling where you realize the good guys don't always win and anyone can die, because that's how life works. Bringing that level of reality into the story I think forced the genre to mature in a lot of ways that it hadn't prior.

I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.

My mom, her money going was straight to the bills.

Like a lot of black people, I grew up straight po'. Wasn't no question about whether we was po', either. If you really wanted to know, all you had to do was look in our refrigerator.

'Celebrity Apprentice' has more integrity and is the most straightforward show I've ever seen.

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.

The Internet is a strange, strange place that is full of lies. I would say mostly lies.

Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.

It's strange for my friends when they see me on TV and in magazines, because the person that they see doing interviews and pictures on the red carpet is not the person that they know.

I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally.

We live in a strange bubble.

Words are a strange thing. You once saw an animal and decided it's a 'cat.' But cat is a sound. This cat has nothing to do with the animal. But I have decided it's a cat. So a cat it is.

I like to write about real people, real crimes. But what has increasingly come to interest me, and also appear to me as a challenge, is the idea of doing strange things with what is real. Take what is real and make it more or less real.

I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte.

Everything you have ever heard about the strangeness of Hollywood is true!

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.