The great joke is that a realist is an optimistic pessimist. That's very witty. Whether it's truthful or not, that I don't… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
“Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful - that's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera… — Helen McCrory Copy Share Image
Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem. — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
I'm a vegan. I respect the environment, and I do my best to spread the importance of such an issue. — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and… — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
It's not that there is no such thing as truth. But we come to like and trust a certain story, not because… — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
It's funny, when people want things to be very truthful and you're dealing with an inexperienced actor. I'm of the school that… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
My biggest thing is telling a truthful story, something that is rooted in something and is very honest. If I read a… — Danielle Brooks Copy Share Image
[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I believe that the visit of the Queen to the United States is an admirable occasion to produce an historical, truthful, sincere,… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
If intelligence and capability are not criteria for the possession of rights, why would animals -who have the capacity to feel fear… — Jack Norris Copy Share Image
Nothing can alter the character of God. In the course of a human life, tastes and outlook and temper may change radically:… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
“The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them,… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
I know, that trends and all of those things and formulae that calculate what audiences want to see and what audiences don't… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
I think it's unnecessary to be mean for the sake of being mean, but I do believe you have to be truthful,… — Geri Halliwell Copy Share Image
Being funny should be an incidental byproduct of trying to get to something truthful, not a destination in itself. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I don't believe truth is conveyed by style and presentation. I don't think that if it was grainy and full of handheld… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that… — Joe Tye Copy Share Image
I've been vegan since I got out of the hospital... It's another eye opener. It changed my life in a number of… — Travis Barker Copy Share Image
Depending on who's directing you, sometime it's heightened or more naturalistic, but generally you're trying to represent something truthful. — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
I'm always surprised to hear or read my work described, "In angry tones, she says." No! In truthful tones! Does truth have… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“As an American historian, I am required to keep an accurate and truthful historical record.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
When you raise your voice in song to express what's going on deep inside of you, I think people just react to… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
“Bullying builds character like nuclear waste creates superheroes. It's a rare occurrence and often does much more damage than endowment.” — Zack W. Van Copy Share Image
“You can't be jealous of someone else's results. You don't know the prayer, process, sacrifice, and work they endured for it.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“The true friend no one can try to broke them because you are truthful to each other.” — Jonnaville Copy Share Image
Instead of saying LOL, I'm gonna say SALTS (Smiled A Little Then Stopped) It's more truthful. — Alisa Gattus Copy Share Image
There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life. — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
You had to make everything much more truthful for the camera. With the stage it's a given that it's going to be… — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
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