At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs. – Ibrahim Babangida
Despite the obvious intelligence and security failures that contributed to the attack against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, the reality is that in one night, an al Qaeda-affiliated group destroyed a diplomatic post, killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, and forced an end to clandestine U.S. activity in the area. – Jack Keane
Technologists and futurists call the mashup of digital info and physical space ‘blended reality.’ – Jamais Cascio
The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality. – Jennifer Aniston
Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don’t start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like. – John Polkinghorne
I’ve seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You’ll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas. – J. G. Ballard
The pressure, the heat, the almost impossibly fast pace at which you need work – this is the reality of working in the culinary industry. This is what professional chefs do night after night. – Joe Bastianich
For those whose faith has faded, the reasons may be real to them, but these reasons do not change the reality of what Joseph Smith restored. – James E. Faust
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer’s role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there. – J. G. Ballard
Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn’t know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn’t know what they were talking about it. – Jam Master Jay
For me, writing isn’t a way of being public or private; it’s just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It’s a reality, and I just accept it as something not to be avoided. – Jamaica Kincaid
Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse – a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public. – Jurgen Habermas
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. – J. G. Ballard
I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish. – Ivan Reitman
I want all of my films to be grounded in reality, and I think ‘Midnight Special’ is the most grounded film I’ve ever made, in spite of its genre. – Jeff Nichols
From a reality perspective, I’m sure part of that is true, but this is the largest blackout in U.S. history. If that is not a signal that we have got a problem that needs to be fixed, I don’t know what is. – Jennifer Granholm
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn’t insanity. Surrealism to me is reality. – John Lennon
My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences. – James Buchan
‘The Amazing Race’ has always been the gold standard of reality television to me. It’s smart, it’s funny, and it’s entertaining as hell. – Burnie Burns
I’m writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that’s what I know about. One has lost touch with reality, disappears and is picked up by a man. – Julie Walters
Virtual reality started for me in sort of an unusual place. It was the 1970s. I got into the field very young: I was seven years old. And the tool that I used to access virtual reality was the Evel Knievel stunt cycle. – Chris Milk
Reality shows give a great platform to young singers, but kids shouldn’t be exposed to showbiz at a very young age. – Arijit Singh
I am very interested in that fine line between fiction and reality and between comedy and tragedy – and pushing the line as much as possible. – Jill McCorkle
If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him. – Clint Eastwood
There is also an artistic element which is lead by the film maker. Issues of what is reality and objectivity are as always relevant as someone is going to edit the film. – Ben Edwards