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• Knowledge is truthful only if it’s based in morality.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Morality, Ifs

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• Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times...

  Franz Marc

  Art, Mind, Guarantees

  "The 'Savages' of Germany". Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) Almanak, Munich, 1912.

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• I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense conciliatory. They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful.

  Wilfred Owen

  War, This Generation, Generations

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• I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Thinking, Trying, Performances

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• We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.

  Charles Rangel

  New Orleans, Giving, Tragedy

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• What's great is that the picture is already taken before it goes public. It's in secret. The trust that develops from such a habit engenders risk, and you realise you're not as vulnerable as you thought. Once you become comfortable with being more truthful about who you are, the easier it is, the prouder you become. That's the way it unfolded for us.

  Emmet Gowin

  Photography, Taken, Risk

  "Emmet Gowin: 'Everyone thought my photographs were incestuous'". Interview with Sarah Moroz, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2014.

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• Answering questions is a major part of sex education. Two rules cover the ground. First, always give a truthful answer to a question; secondly, regard sex knowledge as exactly like any other knowledge.

  Bertrand Russell

  Sex, Two, Giving

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “On Education”, p.140, Routledge

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• What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?

  Agnes Repplier

  Music, People, Boredom

  Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”

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• I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.

  Anne Stevenson

  Real, Mean, Simple

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• Acting a part is not always synonymous with lying; it is far often the best way of serving the truth. It is more truthful to act what we should feel if the community is to be well served rather than behave as we actually do feel in our selfish private feelings.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Selfish, Lying, Community

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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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• The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on my second cycle of fame, and I want to make films that smell real and are truthful.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Real, Character, Smell

  "I have done nothing" by Sarfraz Manzoor, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2009.

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• The truth... When they have a similar structure to and are organized in as truthful a way as nature. When I look out of the window, then truth for me is the way nature shows itself in its various tones, colours and proportions. That's a truth and has its own correctness. This little slice of nature, and in fact any given piece of nature, represents to me an ongoing challenge, and is a model for my paintings.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Challenges, Ongoing

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• Children, we can grow spiritually only if we see the guru as the manifestation of God. We should not accept anyone as guru before we are fully convinced personally that he is authentic and truthful. Once we choose someone as guru, we should surrender completely to him. Only then will spiritual development be possible. Devotion to the guru means total surrender to him.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Children, Mean

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• The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Truth, Lying, Looks

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• I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.

  Mira Sorvino

  Character, People, Giving

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• I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person's experience.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  People, Trying, Different

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2007.

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• I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.

  Naveen Andrews

  Thinking, Actors, Starting

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• I've been hounded by a reputation of being difficult when really what I'm being is truthful and honest. And I think that's been a thorn in my side.

  Gabrielle Anwar

  Thinking, Sides, Reputation

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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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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• I want to play roles that I'm proud of, that I feel a certain integrity about, and I want to continue to be truthful in the work that I do.

  Laz Alonso

  Integrity, Play, Roles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Kids are truthful by nature.

  Anna Chlumsky

  Kids

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• I always look for reality. I look for plain truthful roles.

  Jim Caviezel

  Reality, Roles, Looks

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• I have an almost seven year old... I think it's essential to be consistent with kids. And truthful, without scaring them. I could go on for hours on this one.

  Stephen Collins

  Kids, Thinking, Years

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• There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.

  Richard Foreman

  Art, Made, Works Of Art

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