Quotes About Reality

The lie is, even if you do work out, you'll never look like Madonna. That's the lie.

Im a B-list celebrity trying to give it an honest look. They see me do actual work. ... I try to be the viewer with a microphone.

I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.

It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real world is.

Don't write about trying to change the world, just write about a changed world or a world that's not changing. Let that do the work.

We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we're slip sliding away.

Financial "synergy" is a will-o'-the-wisp.It looks good on paper, but it fails to work out in practice.

There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.

I'm used to being the background. I'm used to having work that only lasts for a little while. I'm used to being - working in the real world, where real things are.

There's this great fantasy of going to work, every day, and getting to play out what people think my life is, as a successful actor.

I never set out to achieve anything, certainly not fame like this,I still have to deal with how to actually make my life work.

Meaningful work, not welfare, is every American's hope, and we have a continuing responsibility to make those hopes a lasting reality.

What they want can never work. Their dreams can never even get close to reality. Their hopes can never, ever be realized. It isn't humanly possible for liberalism to succeed.

Red carpets and dressing up are a part of work that I enjoy less than some people.

Faults and defects every work of man must have.

You can always figure out how to deliver things in somewhat controlled situations, but when you start to get into the reality of the market you start to figure out what isn't going to work.

Columbia is ... for people whose genitals still work, dammit. For writers who want to be brave and persevere in the real world where people often fail.

Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.

Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.

The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.

We work really hard never to get confused with what we know from what we think or hope or wish.

You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can't make a living.

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.