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Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.

Today, Democrats not only have the White House; they have the Senate too. So we have to be realistic about what we can and cannot achieve, while at the same recognizing that realism should never be confused with capitulation.

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years.

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story.

The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, etc. It seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away from people who wrote for the New Masses.

Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

I only understand realism.

We are hopeful that the North Koreans can show a little bit more realism, a little bit more flexibility.

I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my opinion, it's utter filth.

We need realism to deal with reality.

I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.

I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.