Being Honest Quotes - Page 10

• They have decided to tour under the name of Ten Years After which I don't think is very cool. To be honest, they have had to do that as it's the only way they can get any work.

  Alvin Lee

  Journey, Thinking, Years

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• It was mainly to do with Helen Hunt, to be honest. That's what drew my attention to it. I was interested in the fact that she was going to be directing. I'd never met her but she projects a degree of intelligence and it was convincing t me that she'd be able to handle this sort of material very well.

  Colin Firth

  Degrees, Attention, Able

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• My grandmother was utterly convinced I'd wind up as the Archbishop of Canterbury. And, to be honest, I've never entirely ruled it out.

  Hugh Grant

  Ambition, Grandmother, Wind

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• That's our job as artists is to be honest about what we're feeling. And what we're feeling is not always going to be perfect. Sometimes it's going to be controversial. Sometimes it's going to piss a couple of people off. Sometimes it's going to motivate people. Sometimes it's going to inspire.

  Pharrell Williams

  Jobs, Couple, Artist

  "Transcript: Pharrell Williams In Conversation With NYU Tisch & NPR Music". Interview with Jason King, www.npr.org. October 29, 2015.

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• I think it's better to have limits. My limits are different from other people's limits. I'm all for freedom, I'm all for people doing what they want. I'm also all for people shouldering the consequences of their behaviors, and not being assholes, and not lying unless they need to, and being honest except when you shouldn't, and being faithful except when it's okay to cheat. I guess I'm just a mass of contradictions.

  Dan Savage

  Lying, Thinking, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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• I can deal with conservatives in a democracy. With real conservatives, I don't agree with them, but I understand why they believe what they believe and I believe they're being honest with me about it.

  Steve Earle

  Real, Believe, Democracy

  "The Revolution Starts Now". Interview with Jeff Fleischer, www.motherjones.com. October 14, 2004.

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• There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet?

  Charles Stross

  War, Believe, Writing

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• I'm an actress. To be honest, it's a very awkward business. It's one of those things where it's almost like a first date. There's a way you want to come across. You want to show your goods. The truth starts to slip out sometimes.

  Eva Mendes

  Awkward, Want, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You have to be true, you have to be honest.. Don't do anything, just figure out what it is that is true to you, what makes you happiest to do and be out there. And if it doesn't work, then you just have to call it a day and go find something else. But don't make it up. Don't go out there and pretend to be something you aren't.

  Pat Benatar

  Honest, Figures, True You

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• You can lie at a banquet but you have to be honest in the kitchen.

  William Stafford

  Lying, Kitchen, Honest

  William Stafford, Paul Merchant, Vincent Wixon (1998). “Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• Let’s be honest. Who here thinks your professors can say what they really believe? It scares me to death, and should scare you too, that the superstition of political correctness rules the halls of reason. What does all of this mean? It means that telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can’t be far behind. Before you claim to be a champion of free thought, tell me: Why did political correctness originate on America’s campuses? And why do you continue to tolerate it? Why do you, who’re supposed to debate ideas, surrender to their suppression?

  Charlton Heston

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  "Why Johnny can't disobey" by Sarah J. McCarthy, www.wnd.com. March 20, 1999.

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• When I wanted to change the concept of what I was doing, I needed to be more public because it involved more people to collaborate. And I'm doing television now. I have to be honest, I was very afraid to do TV. I said no for 10 years.

  Naomi Campbell

  Years, People, Television

  Interview Magazine Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2013.

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• I got into psychology simply because that's what my sister did, and I grew up in a family that was very like, follow your sister's footsteps. I went to the same school she went to, did the same degree she did ... really had no interest in it, to be honest.

  Lilly Singh

  School, Psychology, Degrees

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• To be honest, I am not especially pleased to be slotted primarily as a 'woman filmmaker', but it's okay with me. Plus, I see the relevance and the strength of having a distinctive subject and drift for promotional purposes

  Ann Hui

  Purpose, Honest, Okay

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• You want success on different levels. I wouldn't be honest if I said I don't look over there in the pop world and say, "Man, that's attractive" - Adele selling 100,000 albums a week. A week.

  Anthony Hamilton

  Men, Different, Albums

  "R&B artist Anthony Hamilton". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 14, 2012.

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• I'm not sure what my genre is, and to be honest, I'm not a huge fan of that word. I love all types of music regardless of what box it might fit in.

  Sunny Jain

  Honest, Fit, Not Sure

  "With Red Baraat, Always a Dhol Moment". Interview with Emily Loftis, www.motherjones.com. January 10, 2011.

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• The truth is, most of those female stories that are contending for Oscars are directed by men. Let's be honest. I looked at the 44 Oscar contenders in Variety that someone wrote up - there was not one directed by a woman. All the ones that were getting an Oscar pitch with the money and everything behind them were by men.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Men, Female, Stories

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, Trying, Honest

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We need to commit to serve the Lord and our communities with the same diligence and faith that the pioneers had. We must ever be on our guard that we do not become casual in keeping God's commandments, in abiding by His laws, and in being honest and trustworthy in all that we do.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Law, Community, Abiding

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• Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days.

  Irving Stone

  Men, People, Generosity

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• And, to be honest, if weed is a gateway drug, then I really did hop the fence, but sometimes I can't help but miss the sticky-sweet warmth of a good old fashioned hot box.

  Kris Kidd

  Weed, Sweet, Missing

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• I'm the competitor, I'm the one who has to wear the brunt of that being a good or bad score. And I'm not too worried about it. I don't know why so many are to be honest with you.

  Kelly Slater

  Honest, Worried, Score

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• Fisherman deceives the fish with bait; this action makes the fisherman dishonest! For a fisherman to be honest, he must not put any bait to his fishhook! He who dares to be ideally honest, let him know how hard it is to be such an honest!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Bait, Action, Honest

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• To be honest, I don't have data in my brain of how a relationship with a man is supposed to function.

  Drew Barrymore

  Men, Data, Brain

  "Play Date with Drew". Interview with Carrie Fisher, www.glamour.com. February 28, 2007.

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• It matters not to be a Jewish or a Muslim or a Christian! What really matters is to be good by heart, to be honest and fair!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Christian, Heart, Matter

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