Illusion Quotes

When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.

Jesse Eisenberg

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Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion.

Natan Sharansky

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The illusion when things are going your way is that it's gonna just keep going. But it never does.

Andy Dunn

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I find that if I interact more, the crowd gets way more into the music. We also have a full live show happening, and I have lighting crew that travels around with me. We've got this Infinity Prism thing, which is lots of fun. It's an optical illusion device that we carry around.

Flume

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No Christians I know who are supporting Trump are under the illusion that The Donald is a seasoned student of Scripture.

Robert Jeffress

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All politics to me - Indian or white - is an illusion preventing us from being authentic because we're communicating through something that isn't real to us.

John Trudell

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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Sigmund Freud

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'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be.

Roger Ebert

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Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Miguel de Unamuno

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Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.

Joyce Maynard

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I don't think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts.

Christina Baker Kline

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At the end of the day, the sovereignty of maleness is an illusion. In essence and in origin, we are all entirely female.

Anohni

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Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion.

Wole Soyinka

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The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.

Philip Guston

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I've never been under the illusion that everybody on death row is innocent - far from it. My own guess is upwards of 90 percent are guilty. But a ten percent error rate if that's what it is, or even five percent, is really way too high.

Scott Turow

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When the Bible and the Gospels say that the victims should have been spared, they do not merely 'take pity' on them. They puncture the illusion of the unanimous victimization that foundational myths use as a crisis-solving and reordering device of human communities.

Rene Girard

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Performance-enhancing drugs are an illusion. I wish I had never gotten involved with steroids. It was wrong. It was stupid.

Mark McGwire

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I'm not even aware of my success. Success is such an illusion.

Juliette Binoche

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I probably complicate things unnecessarily now just to give the illusion of professionalism.

Henry Thomas

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Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.

Grace Jones

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Stardom is just an uneasy seat on top of a tricky toboggan. Being a star is merely perching at the head of the downgrade. A competent featured player can last a lifetime. A star, a year or two. There's all that agony of finding suitable stories, keeping in character, maintaining illusion.

Fredric March

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The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away.

Duncan Sheik

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People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

David Brinkley

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To show men that crimes can be pardoned, and that punishment is not their inevitable consequence, encourages the illusion of impunity and induces the belief that, since there are pardons, those sentences which are not pardoned are violent acts of force rather than the products of justice.

Cesare Beccaria

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