Quotes About Reality

The presentation of young people you often get from Hollywood is too shiny.

With 'White Light,' I had just finished watching 'Under the Skin' and was really obsessed with the idea of science fiction presented as normality.

Anchors aren't just creating fiction; they're becoming characters in the fiction they themselves create. In the world of TV channels, facts are presented like fiction, so governments aren't inconvenienced; fiction is presented like fact, so governments stay happy.

People think you earn a fortune in TV, but that's not always the case, especially when you're working as a children's presenter.

I'm exhausted by the idea that everyone is presenting this perfect life.

In the presenting area, there's nothing that really sets me apart from anyone else. It's something I enjoy but I was never going to set the world on fire.

In reality, girls make mistakes, and it's not fair to keep presenting this narrative that they're perfect.

Gravity Falls' normally follows very particular rules: we start out in reality close to the world as we know it, usually one magical element presents itself, and then it's essentially vanished or hidden back to where it came from by the end of the 20 minutes.

I like to say that a 'Times' editorial presents a strong opinion based on reality.

I've worked with some people and they turn, they become that image on TV and they're lost in it, lost in who they are. It scares me. I want to stay me, preserve my soul.

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

During his brilliant campaign, President Obama wove a powerful narrative about the American we all hope for. And that hope was grounded in a very powerful reality: President Obama's own inspiring life story.

Rhetorically, President Obama is a champion of bipartisanship. In practice, though, he is almost always its enemy.

When a party is in opposition, it opposes. That's its job. But when it comes to power, it must govern. Easy rhetoric is over, the press of reality becomes irresistible. By necessity, it adopts some of the policies it had once denounced. And a new national consensus is born.

While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is too inhibited by the press of reality; when I think about writing of my own time I always think about nonfiction narratives. Or perhaps it's just that I find the present too confounding.

People think you have pressure when you are young. It's the other way round, actually.

I was affected by the harshness of government, the reality of 16-hour days, and the pressures of modern communications.

I will tell you this: I have fun, a lot of fun with 'The Apprentice.' When I did the books - and now we have a book out. And all the time, books are prestigious. But there's sort of nothing like having the big hot show on television.

Maybe it's a little ambitious of me to presume that no matter how big the film is, that I can always go down to the shop to buy a pint of milk.

I've never been to war, and I would never presume to fully understand the horrors that that kind of experience can impart.

I want to challenge the presumption that the world cannot know it is the world unless there is an alternative to the world.

We pretend that the brain is binary, like a computer. But it's not. It's completely holographic.

It's nice to pretend we could lead a normal life!