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• When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.

  Lorraine Toussaint

  Art, Opportunity, Thinking

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• The heaviest of burdens is simultaneously an image of life's most intense fullfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into new heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?

  Milan Kundera

  Real, Men, Air

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• The business conduct of the disciples of wise men is truthful and faithful.... He does not allow himself to be made a surety or a guarantor and does not accept the power of attorney.... He lends money and is gracious. He shall not take away business from his fellow man.

  Maimonides

  Wise, Men, Faithful

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• Everything I say is 95% truthful.

  Si Robertson

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• Let your eye be chaste, your hand faithful, your tongue truthful and your heart enlightened.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Heart, Eye, Hands

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• No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium. It is the photographer's job to get this medium to say what you need it to say. Because photography has a certain verisimilitude, it has gained a currency as truthful - but photographs have always been convincing lies.

  Joel Sternfeld

  Photography, Jobs, Lying

  "False witness" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2004.

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• I love telling truthful honest stories. I suppose I'd love the opportunity to be a superhero within a realistic dramatic piece. It would have opportunity for humor too of course. And ideally I would be the writer/director? (Though I suppose if I was, it is POSSIBLE I would give myself a meaty but smaller part so I could focus on the latter of my duties... Maybe).

  E.J. Bonilla

  Opportunity, Giving, Focus

  "LatinoBuzz Interview: E.J. Bonilla on His Hot-Blooded Performance in ‘The House That Jack Built’" by Juan Caceres, www.indiewire.com. November 21, 2015.

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• 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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• My first wish is to be simple in my actions, truthful in my speech, honest in my opinions, and natural in my behavior. In other words, I want to be clean in mind, heart, and body.

  Ameen Rihani

  Heart, Simple, Mind

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• Truth, acceptance of the truth, is a shattering experience. It shatters the binding shroud of culture trance. It rips apart smugness, arrogance, superiority, and self-importance. It requires acknowledgment of responsibility for the nature and quality of each of our own lives, our own inner lives as well as the life of the world. Truth, inwardly accepted, humbling truth, makes one vulnerable. You can't be right, self-righteous, and truthful at the same time.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Truth, Rip, Responsibility

  Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press

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• History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding.

  Jon Weisman

  Fiction, Too Much, Genre

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• So just to be truthful to my own sensibility, I need to acknowledge that the season is not all joy and light for a lot of people. It's tough - environmentally, emotionally, spiritually.

  Sting

  Christmas, Light, People

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• If I can mean to people - if I can symbolize the ability to pursue gender equality, racial equality, and to be truthful about our experiences, then, absolutely, that's what I want to be.

  Anita Hill

  Mean, People, Want

  "Anita Hill Reflects on 20 Years Since Clarence Thomas Hearings". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 10, 2011.

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• I don't think you could function on set if you think like that. I think once you start to think of the impact, then you're not really coming from a truthful place. I think the best thing to do for me is what's worked in the past.

  David Duchovny

  Past, Thinking, Impact

  "David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson Re-Open The X-Files". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. February 26, 2008.

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• That's always important to us, is being truthful. Not guessing, not making any assumptions. Just coming at it with knowledge.

  Simon Pegg

  Important, Guessing, Assumption

  "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

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• I knew lots of Irish ladies in my life who would say daft things and then would just say something incredibly truthful in a very simple way with simple language - a few well chosen words that would take an intellectual five minutes to express. I like that.

  Steve Coogan

  Simple, Intellectual, Way

  "Steve Coogan Doesn’t Believe In Fairies". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.

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• Acting is all about being truthful. I'm really bad at lying. I'm one of the worst liars I know.

  Dane DeHaan

  Liars, Lying, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm trying to tell the story in the most clear, concise, and truthful way, taking those everyday words and phrases and capturing them in a way that they become something else.

  Jay-Z

  Everyday, Trying, Phrases

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

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• We live in a media soup and are constantly being programmed or are fighting that programming. Thus any truthful account of a life, every part of a life, is about society as well as an individual.

  Marge Piercy

  Fighting, Media, Soup

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Years, Long, Answers

  "Quartet - Dustin Hoffman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves... Honor and love him...do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow. Only the artist in yourself is more truthful than the night.

  e. e. cummings

  Hate, Night, Artist

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• I knew that this was something that was going to be an intense experience, just from the way I typically approach my work. I did not take the fact that I was going to portray a soldier lightly. It was so very important to me that I came across as believable and honest and truthful. I wanted to be able to convey the psychology behind the choice of leaving home for an extended period of time, knowing that you may never come back while still being a devoted parent.

  Michelle Monaghan

  Home, Knowing, Choices

  Source: collider.com

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• In stories, everything has to have clear consequences and everything has to focus to the end. Everything at the end will give meaning to everything that precedes. In my own life, the consequences of the choices I've made aren't always very clear. The most beautiful things are sometimes not totally truthful, and the end will not give more meaning to everything that precedes.

  Jaco Van Dormael

  Beautiful, Giving, Focus

  Source: collider.com

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• I want to be a man who is truthful and who won't let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, 'Here I am. This is me.' I feel there's something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Powerful, Pride, Men

  "Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson Graces the August Cover of ESSENCE". ESSENCE Interview, www.essence.com. July, 01, 2013.

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• Nothing will prepare you for singing the truth like about 35 years in the music business, financial troubles and a couple trips to jail, ... It will get you really humble and really truthful, and gets you ready to sing out about who and what saved you.

  Marty Stuart

  Couple, Humble, Jail

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