Quotes About Reality

There is a kind of belief among my students that things that are true are interesting. But most things that are true are not interesting. Four pages describing how I got up and brushed my teeth in the morning would kill you.

You know, it's not a given that there is an 'online' and 'offline' world out there. When you use the telephone, you don't say that I'm entering some 'telephono-sphere.' You don't say that, and there is no obvious need to say that when you are using a modem.

Epistemology has always been affected by technologies like the telescope and the microscope, things that have created a radical shift in how we sense physical reality.

We shouldn't persuade people that we can simply conjure up the sun and the moon: at the most, we can deliver a telescope.

I can't believe that person on the television is really me.

I do not create events for the sake of television.

I can't believe I'm actually saying this, but there is a difference between the John Cena character you see on television and me as a human being.

From what I can see people look at television to forget the horrors outside.

For us, a lot of the cartoon and crazy stuff on 'F Is for Family' is tertiary characters; it happens on the television in the show. We try to keep whatever problem the Murphy family is dealing with rooted as much as we can in reality.

This was the 1940s; there was no television. It was a different age - it was not swamped by media; it was swamped by reality, and storytelling was a very big art where I came from.

I don't regard television as the outside world. I regard it as an artefact.

I humbly apologise for reality Television.

I really don't like reality television and the nonsense that comes with it.

Isn't television glamourous?

People around the world get to get a sense of who you are through reality television. They are so engaged with you that if they love you, they will support you for life.

Did you ever notice that nobody you see on television looks like anyone you know?

I will think of doing television only when I'll be looking forward to doing reality shows.

There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.

The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.

I try to keep it as honest and real as I can with television crews following me around.

People's attitude seems to be that if you don't have a television, you're not connected to reality - somehow you're not in reality. It's quite interesting, because I suspect that possibly it's the reverse.

My guiltiest pleasure is... chocolates with strawberry cream and trashy television - 'Geordie Shore,' 'Katie,' etc.

I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.

Perhaps there's a lot of quality television that's not right for the individual who needs questions answered in each episode, and perhaps reality television may be a better option. With the integrity of HBO and their drive to tell stories, it takes time to arrive at any sort of answers.