Quotes About Reality

I'm from the era before the Internet, so I know what's real and what's not so you've just got to learn to roll with the punches.

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.

The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.

Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.

There is no such thing as pure art. It's a bourgeois conceit.

I see people as they really are from a pure point of view.

The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects.

I don't mind if what they write about me has some truth in it. Pure imagination makes me feel sad about the whole thing.

The idea that we humans are good-natured, politically correct, nonjudgmental beings is pure fantasy. We are, at the very least, judgmental.

Cinema at its best can express something of the pure irreducible fact of things.

I went looking for embodiments of pure evil, but found ordinary people.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

I would love to live in a world that is purely equal, where everyone has equal opportunities in every way. But that is not reality.

To me, a purely good individual or purely bad individual, that's a comic book - that's a fantasy - and I don't do fantasy.

Vlogging started as a hobby - something I was partaking in purely for fun - and has now become a career, and that feels almost like an impossible reality.

We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.

I left my cushy job as an engineer in New Delhi in 2008 to pursue acting in Mumbai. I figured roles will start pouring in as soon as I landed in the city, but my bubble burst quickly.

Entrepreneurs always begin the journey believing that they have the next big idea. They dream of the fame and fortune that awaits them if only they had the funding to pursue it. But the reality is that as the product is built and shared with customers, flaws in their concept are discovered that - if not overcome - will kill the business.

American musicals are, for the most part, about boys, or boyish pursuits and aspirations - the fantasy of freedom and resolve - and those dreams have little to do with the reality of most black women's lives.

A lot of people have a great business idea; they just need a little push to make it a reality.

You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more - I don't think it's ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside.

What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.