Being Honest Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• I don't change the language for children books. I don't make the language simpler. I use words that they might have to look up in the dictionary. The books are shorter, but there's just not that much difference other than that to be honest. And the funny thing is, I have adult writer friends [to whom I would say], "Would you think of writing a children's book?" and they go, "No, God, I wouldn't know how." They're quite intimidated by the concept of it. And when I say to children's books writers, would they write an adult book, they say no because they think they're too good for it.

  John Boyne

  Children, Book, Writing

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• I always try to just be honest ... As opposed to artifice or manipulation.

  Demetri Martin

  Trying, Manipulation, Honest

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• There are a lot of artists who've said they'd like to work with me. To be honest, I'm not sure there is such a thing as an inappropriate artist. The trick is matching the artist with a story.

  Neil Gaiman

  Artist, Stories, Matching

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• To be honest with you, I am passionate about all the people out there who want to know Jesus, they want to know God, and they are sick of a system that is hung up on a bunch of things that have nothing to do with the love of God.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, People, Sick

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• You can't say you want things to be simple and then in the next breath ask me to be honest.

  Margaret Mahy

  Simple, Want, Next

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• People ask me all the time, 'How can I become a successful entrepreneur?' And I have to be honest: It's one of my least favorite questions, because if you're waiting for someone else's advice to become an entrepreneur, chances are you're not one.

  Michael Dell

  Successful, People, Entrepreneur

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• The Internet is a very intimate entertainment experience. I'm in my own apartment talking to people, and I want them to feel like they're with me in my apartment. So if I'm listening to them and taking ideas from them and being honest with how I'm feeling, it resonates even more that we're having a real, actual conversation.

  Grace Helbig

  Real, Talking, Ideas

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• Anybody who picks up a guitar and tells you that there's some inner message that they're trying to convey... it's nonsense. They're not being honest. The reason they're doing this is they wanna get lots of chicks and they don't want to work for a living.

  Gene Simmons

  Guitar, Trying, Want

  "Gene Simmons: What I've Learned". Interview with Chris Buck, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you dont need to do anything to Shakespeare.

  Sam Heughan

  Needs, Honest, Language

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• I want to be honest, and even if that's scary, I know it's worth it.

  Emm Gryner

  Scary, Want, Honest

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• The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.

  Jasper Fforde

  Fun, Book, Writing

  "Live webchat: Jasper Fforde" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2011.

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• That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.

  Joe Torre

  Thinking, Reputation, Honest

  "Torre on book: 'It wasn't my intention to shock anybody'". Interview with Larry King, edition.cnn.com. February 2, 2009.

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• To be honest, after all the crap that happened with 'Summer Heights High,' I was like, 'I'm not going to write anything controversial or edgy ever again; I just can't handle the blame.'

  Chris Lilley

  Summer, Writing, Height

  "Controversial Lilley says it’s all about the story" by David Knox, tvtonight.com.au. April 3, 2011.

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• One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.

  Bill Toomey

  Keys, Elements, Honest

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• Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.

  Christine McVie

  Writing, Rooms, Floating

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• First and foremost, you do not have to live up to or emulate the lives of any of your predecessors. But at the very least, you should know about them. You will have your own life, interests, and ideas of what you want or do not want in life. Do what you enjoy doing. Be honest with yourself and others. Don't think of satisfying anyone: your elders, peers, government, religion, or children who will come after you. Develop meaningful ideals, and become conscious of others, their existence, and their lives.

  Yuri Kochiyama

  Meaningful, Children, Thinking

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• Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn't be honest all along.

  Walter Kirn

  Way, Honest, Accusing

  Walter Kirn (2005). “Mission to America: A Novel”, Random House LLC

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• Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days.

  Irving Stone

  Men, People, Generosity

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• It is time to provide a smashing answer for those cynical men who say that a democracy cannot be honest, cannot be efficient.... We have in the darkest moments of our national trials retained our faith in our own ability to master our own destiny.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Destiny, Men, Cynical

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