Quotes About Reality

The telling of stories creates the real world.

You can only really invent something if you connect yourself to the real world - whatever that means.

I am not that big of a fantasy person. I prefer myself to think of living in the real world.

When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.

'The Real World' is the most predictable arc ever. They get on the show, they're all excited, we're gonna be best friends, then people start drinking and get hammered, and say stupid stuff, and that's pretty much it.

But I was born in the real world, I'm from the streets.

I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now.

It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.

Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe.

Being offended is part of being in the real world.

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

I don't think there are beautiful women out there trying to lure men into any kind of conspiracy. I think people are out there just trying to meet someone new and interesting and live in the real world.

I don't know if people feel this way, but I think by nature that when you start off as a young pop singer, they assume that you're a bit pampered, prissy, and precious, or that you live in a bubble and not in the real world. For me that's not the case.

I'm interested in the real world.

It was nice to make things right, and I went to prom and actually had a good time in the TV world - the real world wasn't so much fun.

I had to make sure I kept an eye on the real world.

There are so many of these young-adult movies with these cold guys who act like jerks to girls but are hiding soft sentiments. But in the real world most guys who act like jerks are jerks. Generally they are. I spent a lot of high school thinking that horrible guys must be very sensitive and interesting and it's not true.

When people are faced with a choice between the Northern Ireland they have got and the perfect Northern Ireland, they complain. But in the real world that isn't the choice.

The fiction I'm most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.

Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world.

L.A. is a bit strange. It doesn't seem like the real world.

Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I start to think about the plot as a fairy tale, or a dream, or a nightmare... As if it was the best way to tell the truth about characters or narration, instead of realism.

Television is generally on the conservative side, so if you're seeing it represented on TV, that probably means it's really out there in the real world.

The real world has always been far more exciting and funny and dangerous to me than anything somebody could conjure up sitting in front of a computer.