I do small cameos here and there but nothing that requires more than a paragraph of talking, because I’m just an amateur. The movie is a whole different reality. – Richard Price
When I put magic into a book – whether it’s a wizard or a crusty old werewolf – I’m asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier. – Patricia Briggs
Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality. – Robert J. Shiller
Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn’t go too far out of the box. – Robert Redford
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. – Samuel Johnson
I was a ‘young adult’ when I wrote ‘The Outsiders,’ although it was not a genre at the time. It’s an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise. – S. E. Hinton
The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American. – Octavio Paz
Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. They’re about telling stories. – Seth Shostak
I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That’s very important. – Robert Wise
Reality television has borrowed so much from the world of politics, whether it’s alliances or voting or the kind of strategizing that’s done. Anything like that came from politics well before it came from reality television. – R. J. Cutler
How can our hearts not break? How can we hold our tears? How can we bear the pain of losing those loving children and their guardians, who were slain in Newtown, Conn.? Why can’t we face the reality of our times and restrict deranged people from having these destructive powers? – Radhanath Swami
You know, now there is always half of the new Quebecers who are going to the English CEGEP. After that, often they are going to work in English. So for us, that is so important. We are a real minority in North America. Two per cent of the population are French-speaking. We have to protect this reality. – Pauline Marois
Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives. – Robert Collier
Reality isn’t the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are. – Robert J. Ringer
Neural implants could accomplish things no external interface could: Virtual and augmented reality with all five senses; augmentation of human memory, attention, and learning speed; even multi-sense telepathy – sharing what we see, hear, touch, and even perhaps what we think and feel with others. – Ramez Naam
Somehow, talking to young students brings you back to reality – it should, anyway. – Robert J. Shiller
Pirates did not store all their treasures in treasure chests, then bury them and draw maps to them. That’s a movie invention. In reality, pirates spent their money as fast as they could steal it because they knew they were living on borrowed time. They didn’t want to wait around to enjoy the money. – Robert Kurson
The universe bursts into existence from life, not the other way around as we have been taught. For each life there is a universe, its own universe. We generate spheres of reality, individual bubbles of existence. Our planet is comprised of billions of spheres of reality, generated by each individual human and perhaps even by each animal. – Robert Lanza
In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court. – Pat Brown
The reality of Britain is vibrant multiculturalism, but the myth we export is an all-white world of lords and ladies. Conversely, American society is pretty segregated, but the myth it exports is of a racial melting-pot, everyone solving crimes and fighting aliens side by side. – Riz Ahmed
You need to aim beyond what you are capable of. You must develop a complete disregard for where your abilities end. Try to do things that you’re incapable of… If you think you’re incapable of running a company, make that your aim… Make your vision of where you want to be a reality. Nothing is impossible. – Paul Arden
Believe me, although I really like the show, the reality of Philly Homicide is nothing like CBS’s ‘Cold Case.’ – Richard Montanari
I think George R. R. Martin made fantasy grow up. He brought a level of reality into the storytelling where you realize the good guys don’t always win and anyone can die, because that’s how life works. Bringing that level of reality into the story I think forced the genre to mature in a lot of ways that it hadn’t prior. – Peter V. Brett
We have a large pool of talented and educated women, and yet workplaces haven’t necessarily changed to accommodate the reality of their lives. – Rosabeth Moss Kanter
