Being True Quotes - Page 36

• Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.

  Natalie Merchant

  Worry, Be True To Yourself, Profit

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• Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean you have to write for the Academy. Be true to your personality. Don't temper your personality down with words. Don't build defensive fortresses around yourself with words - words are your friends.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Mean, Writing, Personality

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• I want to be true to the character and maintain some consistency and give the audience what they love while at the same time keeping things fresh and grow the character.

  Martha Plimpton

  Character, Time Keeping, Giving

  "'Raising Hope's' Martha Plimpton on Her Emmy Nomination, 'I Was Doubly Surprised'". Interview with Jethro Nededog, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 13, 2011.

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• It's important to be true to yourself and your vision.

  Nicole Polizzi

  Vision, Important, Be True To Yourself

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• Believe me, I love commerce as much as the rest of the readers of 'Businessweek.' But in art, you have to be true to yourself and your musical vision. People have known me well for a long time, so if I was chasing a trend and doing something that wasn't authentic to who I am, they would know it in just a few seconds.

  Lionel Richie

  Art, Believe, Who I Am

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

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• It's good to raise awareness that men and boys are struggling, at least many of them are. But why say men are finished? It's too harsh, too sweeping, and it happens to not be true.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Struggle, Boys, Men

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• I want to try different things but, most importantly, always be true to my roots and keep it organic. I'm never going to leave bachata behind. I'm always going to be a bachatero first.

  Romeo Santos

  Roots, Trying, Different

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• When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Sound, Looks, Too Good To Be True

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As far as developing a career as an actress, I think it's a fine balance between trying to just work, and also be true to yourself.

  Rachel True

  Thinking, Careers, Balance

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• Just in general, no matter what you're doing, be true to yourself. Never let anyone else dictate how you live your life.

  Rumer Willis

  Live Your Life, Matter, Be True To Yourself

  "Question time: Rumer Willis By Hannah Pool". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2009.

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• And then he says, "The writer must be true to truth." And that's a killer, because the only way you can describe a human being truly is by describing his imperfections. The perfect human being is uninteresting - the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable. And when the writer sends a dart of the true word, it hurts. But it goes with love. This is what Mann called "erotic irony," the love for that which you are killing with your cruel, analytical word.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hurt, Writing, Perfect

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.3, Anchor

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• To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.

  Barry McGuire

  Real, Actors, I Can Do It

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• If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.

  Beverley Mitchell

  College, Giving, Advice

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• Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.

  John Donne

  Thinking, Poor, True You

  John Donne, “The Indifferent”

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• Francis of Assisi tells us we should work to build peace.  But there is no true peace without truth!  There cannot be true peace if everyone is his own criterion, if everyone can always claim exclusively his own rights, without at the same time caring for the good of others, of everyone, on the basis of the nature that unites every human being on this earth.

  Pope Francis

  Caring, Rights, Earth

  Pope Francis (2016). “Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion”, p.58, Orbis Books

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• The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void. As the stars came nearer, the sky retreated deeper and deeper into the night color. The layers of the Border Range, indistinguishable one from another, cast their heaviness at the skirt of the starry sky in a blackness grave and somber enough to communicate their mass. The whole of the night scene came together in a clear, tranquil harmony.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Stars, Fall, Moon

  Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Snow Country”, p.44, Vintage

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• The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious habit which in the end must cloud the stream of thought, or at least check spontaneity. If it be true that le style c'est l homme, what is likely to happen if l homme is for ever eking out his own personality with that of some other individual?

  Ethel Smyth

  Clouds, Indulge In, Personality

  Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”

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• The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the objects, he must be true to them. If he includes in his space a strip of grass, it must be felt as the living differentiated thing it is and so recorded. It must take its proper but no less important place as a shape and a texture in relationship to the mountain tree or what not, which are included.

  Paul Strand

  Light, Space, Tree

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• I don't particularly like the idea that there's an arc to the story and that therefore in this scene you have to convey this bit of information or emotion. I like more the feeling that, of course, there is a shape to the story, but that each scene should feel right, should be true at that moment, and that gradually you accumulate these moments of truth until you get enough of them together that it becomes a story that's interesting.

  Michael Winterbottom

  Ideas, Interesting, Feelings

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination. The artist's eyes destroy death.

  Herbert Gold

  Eye, Artist, Imagination

  Herbert Gold (1994). “Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool”, Touchstone Books

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• It would seem to me that If this physical life, of which we are now aware, does indeed comprise the entirety of human experience, then what we seem to intuitively know to be true is entirely backwards. For if this is the case, then it must be the despicable tyrant, free of any moral values, and not the selfless compassionate who sacrifices himself for the good of mankind that is truly the one most deserving of our reverence and emulation.

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Sacrifice, Tyrants

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• Profound things are simple. If it is not simple, it cannot be true. But simple things are difficult.

  Douglas Harding

  Simple, Profound, Difficult

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• Brothers and sisters, love the earth. Be true to the earth, and do not believe those seducers who look longingly to the world beyond, casting suspicion on this world. Jesus is the greatest friend of the earth-Jesus who again and again, in the original spirit of Judaism, proclaimed love for the soil and love for the land. "Blessed are the peacemakers," he said, "for they shall possess the earth."

  Eberhard Arnold

  Jesus, Brother, Believe

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• I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, "Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true." I like those kinds of backgrounds.

  Bill Nighy

  Technology, Thinking, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Littles, Begging, Deals

  Rabindranath Tagore (2015). “Letters to a Friend”, p.82, Routledge

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