Illusion Quotes

It is hard to go back into a world that has already been explored, so to speak. And the fans are very passionate about it, and you don't want to burst that bubble; you don't want to break that illusion. You want to get it right. You want it to feel familiar, but also surprising.

Philippa Boyens

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The science-denial machinery is a serious adversary, and it has a big advantage over real science: it does not need to win its dispute with real science; it just needs to create a public illusion that there is a dispute.

Sheldon Whitehouse

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The trust of the mass population can no longer be taken for granted, and any continuation of the 'grand illusion' is dangerous for leaders in today's world.

Richard Edelman

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Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize. This is an illusion. It's an assumption that modernity is a product simply of competition, markets and technology. It is not. It is also shaped equally by history and culture. China is not like the West, and it will not become like the West.

Martin Jacques

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A change in external circumstances without inner renewal is a materialist's illusion, as though man were only a product of his social circumstance and nothing else.

Jurgen Moltmann

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I like illusion when it is so convincing that we might as well see reality this way - I like to present to our belief system something that is convincing, that 'we know not to be.'

James Turrell

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Henri Nouwen

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The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

George Lucas

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One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.

Ella Maillart

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The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.

David Copperfield

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Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.

Charles M. Schulz

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Fashion is the most beautiful illusion you can have.

Alessandro Michele

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Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

Voltaire

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Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Margaret Cho

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Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.

Francis Spufford

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The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.

Watkin Tudor Jones

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The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.

Talib Kweli

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The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way.

Joan Didion

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For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.

Oren Peli

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You and the character just become the same person in a way. There isn't really a character; it's just you creating this illusion.

Andrew J. West

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It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

Gabriel Byrne

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Speculative markets have always been vulnerable to illusion. But seeing the folly in markets provides no clear advantage in forecasting outcomes, because changes in the force of the illusion are difficult to predict.

Robert J. Shiller

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The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

John Steinbeck

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There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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