Quotes About Reality

Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die.

People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.

Televisa is the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world, and the steps we have taken, which extend the tenure of our exclusive access to Televisa's premium Spanish-language telenovelas, sports, sitcoms, reality series, news programs and feature films, put Univision in a stronger competitive position.

One of the most troubling things about the term 'fake news' is that it has become a force field against accusations you don't like.

Although 'The Anderson Platoon' was what we would now call an 'embedded film' - with all the ambiguities that term implies - somehow Schoendoerffer got away with showing things as they really were from a grunt's perspective.

In the medium or long term we'll all be dead. Let's deal with the problems at hand.

If literary terms were about artistic merit and not the rules of convenience, about achievement and not safety, the term 'realism' would be an honorary one, conferred only on work that actually builds unsentimental reality on the page, that matches the complexity of life with an equally rich arrangement in language.

Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.

By the time a second term rolls around, the illusions about a president have largely evaporated.

An approach that phases in congressional term limits reconciles the self-interest of members of Congress with the public's desire to see these changes enacted and gives us the best chance to make term limits a reality.

There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.

A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll be a dismantling of the present broadcasting structure, which is far too limited and limiting.

Neither as a writer nor, moreover, as a leader of a nation should you use terminology that obscures the reality of human evil.

I do see the world in pretty dark terms. I find it colder and scarier the older I get.

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

My mind doesn't work, my memories don't work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can't tell you it's always the truth.

I think I'd work on making sure that Canadians have opportunities to find good jobs, to grow, to gain stability in terms of pensions. The reality is that Canadians don't feel that our economy is working for us.

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

When beautiful movie stars allow themselves to look terrible, people think they're really acting.

I've got this terrible hernia. People think it's a fat gut, but it's not.

It's a business, and I'm a product. Terrible, isn't it?

There's some terrible food on 'Come Dine With Me' and that creates some great moments.

Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.

Going through divorce while shooting a reality show is terrible.