#reality

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

#around #biography #doing #going #him

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#characters #grounded #i #i always #liked

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#blame #dream #real #reality #something

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#fooled #must #nature #over #precedence

One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness. ↗

— David Bohm

#basic #commitments #deeper #derived #drops

Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement. ↗

— David Bohm

#actual process #attention #careful #further #itself

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality. ↗

— Irving Howe

#behind #engaging #imagination #leaving #reality

I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters. ↗

— Julie Bowen

#greater #i #love #many #more

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#almost #becoming #century #everything #fiction

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

#already #because #does #external #fiction