Pastoral Resources

Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn't go too far out of the box.

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.

I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.

I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality.

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.

I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish.

I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history.

I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality.

The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

We need realism to deal with reality.

Reality doesn't interest me.

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.