Being Truthful Quotes - Page 5

• A lot of people would say, to be truthful is to tell all, every dalliance, every crisis. They might be right on paper, but in practice, it's not a great way to go.

  Adam Carolla

  Practice, People, Paper

  "‘How Dare You!’: Q&A with Adam Carolla". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2010.

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• Everything is out of your control, and you can only be truthful about how you feel.

  Shailene Woodley

  How You Feel, Truthful, Feels

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• I think the biggest thing is just making sure that you do the work that you connect with, personally, and that you do work where you can really bring something to the table. It's just about being truthful to yourself.

  Susanna White

  Thinking, Tables, Truthful

  Source: collider.com

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• I feel like you can't really be truthful as an artist and empathize with the human experience, unless you know your truth and you're not living a lie. So I'm learning through it, and it's making me a better person, and it's making me a better artist, I think.

  Diane Guerrero

  Lying, Artist, Thinking

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

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• I am not so concerned with how many Rotten Tomatoes we have - although the good reviews are to be wished for, of course - but I have my hands full in the daily housekeeping of doing Maura right and being truthful to this experience.

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Hands, Tomatoes, Rotten

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• If you lack vulnerability then you are not being truthful to yourself.

  Benjamin Stone

  Truthful, Ifs, Vulnerability

  Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.

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• Its funny because when I did feel like I came out and I just felt like I was being truthful to myself, (it was at) that point I became very successful. So you know, it took a true kind of facing that truth of myself and being honest, that was when the real kind of fame or whatever that kind of stuff happened for me.

  Margaret Cho

  Real, Successful, Stuff

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• My overall responsibility is to be truthful. If people pay money to come and see me, looking for something other than that, then they've made a mistake.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Mistake, Responsibility, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• Tagore once said - art has to be beautiful, but, before that, it has to be truthful. Now, what is truth? There is no eternal truth. Every artist has to learn private truth though a painful private process. And that is what he has to convey.

  Ritwik Ghatak

  Beautiful, Art, Truthful

  "Cinema and I" by Ritwik Ghatak, (pp. 75), 1987.

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• Being truthful is the new beautiful

  Suzy Kassem

  Beautiful, Truthful

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• I began making pictures because I wanted to record what supports hope: the untranslatable mystery and beauty of the world. Along the way, however, the camera also caught evidence against hope, and I eventually concluded that this, too, belonged in pictures if they were to be truthful and thus useful.

  Robert Adams

  Support, Cameras, Records

  "Robert Adams: the photographer who roved the prairies for 45 years" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2014.

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• I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

  Benjamin Bratt

  School, Style, Training

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• Here's an easy way to see if a war movie is being truthful: If you see an explosion on a faraway hillside and the sound of the explosion and the detonation of the bomb happen at the same time - if they're putting the sound and the vision together in the same moment - they're going toward our cultural understanding of war, not the reality of war.

  Sebastian Junger

  War, Reality, Understanding

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• Acting's not about nose jobs and liposuction. It's about being truthful to what you're doing.

  Phylicia Rashad

  Jobs, Acting, Noses

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• One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.

  Emile Chartier

  Inspirational, Self Respect, World

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• I believe politicians should aim to be accurate and truthful in what they say at all times. You can be truthful and inaccurate but what you shouldn't be doing at any time is saying things that are untrue or making commitments that you have no intention of honouring.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Believe, Commitment, Truthful

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• Kids tell me all the time, "I don't know how you do it, but that's us in the book." That's the kind of response you want, and I can't sacrifice it for the sake of somebody worried about censorship. You have to find a way to be truthful and honest.

  Robert Cormier

  Book, Kids, Sacrifice

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• A lot of the kind of comedy that I do comes out of real human moments. For them to work, they have to be truthful kinds of things that people in the audience can go, "Yes, I've experienced that myself!"

  Brian Regan

  Real, People, Comedy

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• In order to discover truth, we must be truthful ourselves, and must welcome those who point out our errors as heartily as those who approve and confirm our discoveries.

  Max Muller

  Truth, Discovery, Order

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• You have to trust your instincts and know that the right question or the right answer will come to you. You don’t always have to have the solution to the problem; sometimes it’s very interesting to watch somebody go through the process of solving the problem, but it’s got to be truthful.

  Cat Deeley

  Interesting, Answers, Watches

  "Tim Gunn and Cat Deeley on Good Hosts, Bad Reality Shows and Unfair Judges". Interview with Debra Birnbaum, variety.com. August 5, 2014.

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• The bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of drama is to be truthful. You can be truthful and funny, but if you're not truthful in a drama than the audience leaves you.

  Eddie Izzard

  Drama, Lines, Comedy

  "Eddie Izzard Talks TREASURE ISLAND, Possibility of a Sequel, and MUNSTERS Reboot MOCKINGBIRD LANE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 1, 2012.

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• Even if people are all from the same place, there can be very, very different approaches. It's one of the things I'm fascinated by. It's why I like directing. I like to see how different people approach trying to be truthful, on camera or in the theater, and whether you can make them match up.

  Kenneth Branagh

  People, Trying, Cameras

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 19, 2011.

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• German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry.... Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts "beauty." It tries to be truthful.

  Paul Celan

  Beauty, Truth, Poetry

  Paul Celan, Rosemarie Waldrop (2003). “Collected Prose”, p.15, Psychology Press

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• It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Integrity, Purpose

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1140, Delphi Classics

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• Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless, and then he meets with another of the same character. When a man experiences this often, and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them.

  Plato

  Hate, Character, Men

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