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Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.

Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard.

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality.

There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.

In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire.

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, and I'm happy, Doctor, I finally won out over it.

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.