Quotes About Reality

When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.

I would say that regardless of how the brand has been created, we are four hard-working women who have succeeded in making our dream to become artists a more possible reality through this.

Succeeding against an army of strawmen might feel good as a speech, but in reality, the world is filled with extraordinarily difficult challenges and very real consequences as a result of how we face them.

I'm still sometimes convinced that I'm just making all of this up and I'm actually somewhere drooling in a straight jacket. This success is such a bizarre thing.

There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.

It's part of being successful, just planning your life, catalogue successes, keep track of things that are important to you and make them a reality.

When you're a famous, successful person at 16 years old, the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to make life easier so you can go out and play. And I think you miss out on lot of growing up and a lot of reality checks.

I know all human beings will be successful. How do I know? They all die.

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

I've never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people's lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies.

So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.

Just because you have given five successful films doesn't make you God.

I enjoy watching sitcoms where the team behind it have successfully created a whole alternate reality that you can enter into for half an hour every week.

Mandates are not objective realities but subjective interpretations of elections sold successfully by the winning candidate or party.

I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

I reject the notion of a post-truth area. I don't believe there is such a thing, and we shouldn't accept that.

I don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.

They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel.

I feel really comfortable with going for the reality of the drama, but I'm not much for the comedy of it. You have to make people laugh, or you have to be true to the character in such a way that makes people laugh. It's a whole different thing.

People have this view, 'Oh, you're in movies, your life is so glamorous' but it can really suck.

Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.

When you have a nightmare, you think, 'What caused this?' And then you can sometimes get the same scenario two or three nights, back to back. Or something really bad happens, and you feel absolutely sad and do not want it to be real. You don't want to fall asleep and get sucked back into that same dream.

I remember I'd come home from fifth, sixth grade, and I'd watch 'Saved by the Bell' and be like, 'I hope my high school experience is like that.' And it totally wasn't. It sucked.

I think it's important if you are an actor, if you are portraying human life, you have to connect with what is human. It's not easy if you spend a lot of time in L.A. and get sucked into the hedonism of the industry.