Being Honest Quotes - Page 5

• I don't know what 'Mad Men' has done for my fan base. I didn't know that I still had a fan base, to be honest.

  Jay R. Ferguson

  Men, Mad, Fans

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• I wish what I do was all real. Some of it's real, some of it's an illusion and I try to blur the line between both, but unfortunately I've got to be honest with you. Taking a $1 bill and turning it into a $100 - unfortunately it's not real.

  Criss Angel

  Real, Wish, Trying

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• I'll be honest, I never saw myself making a ninja movie, never entertained the idea. I think ninja films can be quite cheesy unless you do them in feudal Japan.

  Scott Adkins

  Thinking, Japan, Ideas

  "Interview with Ninja II Shadow of a Tear star Scott Adkins". Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. January 3, 2014.

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• To be honest, my husband and my children are my best friends.

  Helen McCrory

  Children, Husband, My Best Friend

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is true that one of the first acts of tyrants is to erase history, to wipe out the recorded memory of a people. With that in mind, it's important to remember that the work that we do as writers, artists and performers will form an essential part of the collective memory that future generations will draw upon. And so we owe it to those future generations to defend that memory and be honest witnesses to our times.

  Rene Balcer

  Memories, Artist, Collective Memory

  Speech to the "Central Academy of Fine Arts" in Beijing, December 8, 2009.

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• I'm actually not a very good driver, to be honest with you. I'm a scatterbrain driver. I'm not very focused. I'm always trying to find the right music station or put on a new CD or trying to eat something.

  Lauren Lee Smith

  Cds, Always Trying, Honest

  "The fruit of Lauren Lee Smith's labour". Interview with Petrina Gentile, www.theglobeandmail.com. April 13, 2011.

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• To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.

  Keri Hilson

  Honesty, Honest

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• Oftentimes, you read these pilot scripts that come through for American work, and they dont sing to you. Ive got to be honest, not many of them ignite the flame or give you that burning feeling of, Oh, God, I really want to be a part of this.

  Antony Starr

  Flames, Giving, Feelings

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• I'm a hip-hop kind of guy, but to be honest with you, I could listen to R&B all day. Give me some slow jams, and I'm a happy person.

  Ryan Guzman

  Giving, Guy, Hip Hop

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To be honest, Im not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Fiction, Littles, Honest

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• To be honest, the play that was drawn up, I scratched it. I just told coach, 'Give me the ball.' We're either going to go to overtime or I'm going to win it for us. It was that simple.

  LeBron James

  Winning, Simple, Nba

  "Early Start", www.cnn.com. May 11, 2015.

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• But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Goya were great painters. I am only a public clown-a mountebank. I have understood my time and have exploited the imbecility, the vanity, the greed of my contemporaries. It is a bitter confession, this confession of mine, more painful than it may seem. But at least and at last it does have the merit of being honest.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Vanity, Greed

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• I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That's what I've always done.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Feelings, Connections

  "60 SECONDS: Jeff Koons". Interview with Graeme Green, metro.co.uk. July 18, 2017.

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• We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the US has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences.

  Susan Rice

  Luxury, Risk, Suffering

  "Each Side Has to Do More". Interview with Gregor Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. July 21, 2008.

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• The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, lets be honest.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Cnn, People, Watches

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• I gotta be honest with you. Im kind of jealous of the way my dad gets to talk to my mom sometimes. Where are all those old-school women you can just take your day out on? When did they stop making those angels?

  Bill Burr

  Mom, Dad, Jealous

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• Everybody's not going to like jazz, let's just be honest about it. Everybody doesn't like everything. There's a disconnect in generations and some people just aren't going to feel that music.

  Robert Glasper

  People, Generations, Jazz

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• Living without Laughing isn't living. Be silly. Be honest. Be Kind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Silly, Laughing, Be Kind

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• I've been a Cub all my life. I came up here when I was 20 years old and spent my whole career here in Chicago. I've always been an optimist; I believe you have to be in order to survive, to be honest with you - in health, with what I've been through. That's the way I am.

  Ron Santo

  Believe, Years, Careers

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• You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if it earns its name. You have to be honest, that's the only thing.

  Michael Haneke

  Art, Names, Violence

  "Michael Haneke: 'There is as much evil in us as there is good'". Interview With Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2009.

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• There's a school of thought that says if you legalize drugs it will solve the problem. We're all good liberals, we said let's do it and see what happens. We wanted to be honest about it. So in our brainstorming sessions we'd say, what if? The finding was that all the negative things came out also. The answer is that we didn't believe in the full legalization of drugs. But we don't believe in the criminalization of drugs, either.

  George Pelecanos

  Believe, School, Drug

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• I certainly don't want to be formulaic. I want to be honest and authentic and everything else.

  Stephen Fry

  Want, Honest

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2004.

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• As an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest. I mean, I like a good thrill. Thrillers are my favorite. I like stuff that keeps you on the edge of your seat or maybe makes you jump. But what I don't like is the gore. I don't like gratuitous violence and killing and all that kind of stuff. So it's kind of an interesting paradox.

  Corey Feldman

  Mean, Interesting, Adults

  "Corey Feldman on child actors, his favorite roles, and the Goonies sequel". Interview by Will Harris, www.avclub.com. December 10, 2012.

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• There seems to be something poetically that doesn't work or is limiting when you call God 'God' in a poem. When I tried to be honest with myself in my relationship with God, Christ is, on the one hand, completely dark, he's transcendent and unknown. On the other hand, he is completely imminent and completely knowable as Jesus. Our tradition speaks of him in both ways as transcendent but also as a lover who comes to us, and the two word 'Dark One' seem to me to contain both things, the transcendence and otherness of Christ, but also like a kind of dark lover who comes to us.

  Kevin Hart

  Jesus, Dark, Hands

  "The Poetry and Prayers of Kevin Hart". "Encounter" Carmel Howard, www.abc.net.au. June 5, 2011.

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• I've never been that person to fake it, and say what everyone else wants you to say. Then you never have anything personal. If I wanted to be an actress all the time, I could do that. But I don't. I want to be real. I want to be a real person. That's what an artist is. An artist has to be honest. Without honesty, there's nothing.

  Miley Cyrus

  Honesty, Real, Artist

  "'I've never been that person to fake it,' says Miley Cyrus". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. September 15, 2009.

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