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Quotes About Reality

Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.
~ B. W. Powe
My work is mostly influenced by the concrete circumstances of our daily lives.
~ bell hooks
One's work is never so bad as it appears on bad days, nor so good as it appears on good days.
~ Bertrand Russell
Everyone thinks something like 'The Hills' just falls into your lap. It's not true. You have to work for everything.
~ Brody Jenner
Things always work according to their nature.
~ C. S. Lewis
Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales," she told me. "It doesn't save us. We have to save ourselves.
~ Charles de Lint
Engaging and well paced, the book fills in the reality behind Vonnegut's work
~ Charles J. Shields
No one's dream job involves a kiosk.
~ Damien Fahey
Television glorifies war, ... And the reality is we have some remarkably brave men and women who work through such challenging circumstances to make us as safe as we are.
~ Unknown
Once the initial excitement wears off and it's time to sit down to write, the authors are usually still very eager, but the reality of doing the work can be a little daunting.
~ Deborah Reber
Work on psychological blocks like shame and guilt - they falsely color your reality.
~ Deepak Chopra
Capitalism sounds good in theory but it just doesn't work.
~ Edward Abbey
How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn't it?
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I have a theory that I really want my kids to know - the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot of hard work.
~ Eric Bana
Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality.
~ Eric Maisel
I let the comedy come through the character and just try to make sure that everything is kind of rounded in a truth, in a reality, because that's what I need to make a character work.
~ Eugene Levy
One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.
~ Francis Bacon
Life for most people is a bad dream. They live in pain, grabbing at what they can for pleasure. As they grow old, they despair. Things don't work out the way you planned.
~ Frederick Lenz
It's kind of funny to read the work of ex-Marines and soldiers because what they said to me as a reporter was only a fraction of what they were thinking and feeling and saying to one another.
~ George Packer
The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.
~ George W. S. Trow
Work is the miracle by which talent is brought to the surface and dreams become reality.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.
~ Gore Vidal
In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to the reality of the situation.
~ Graciela Iturbide
No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream.
~ Gustave Moreau