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• My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Responsibility, Trying, My Family

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• No one individual can tell the truth.

  William Faulkner

  Individual

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• My way of joking is to tell the truth

  George Bernard Shaw

  Truth, Boxing, Joking Around

  1904 Peter Keegan to Nora Reilly. John Bull's Other Island, act 2.

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• Good writing is about telling the truth.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Good Writing, Needs And Wants

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.3, Anchor

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• Truth-telling by a leader can legitimate truth-telling at every level.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Leader, Levels

  Parker J. Palmer (2009). “A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life”, p.173, John Wiley & Sons

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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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• Women especially are trained to protect other people's feelings, and a lot of that involves not telling the truth even about the fundamental details of your own experiences and your own life.

  Emily Gould

  People, Feelings, Details

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The national parks belong to everyone. To the people. To all of us. The government keeps saying so and maybe, in this one case at least, the government is telling the truth. Hard to believe, but possible.

  Edward Abbey

  Believe, Government, People

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• No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do any bit of work as well as it can be done for the work's sake, and what men call originality will come unsought.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Trying, Done

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• Black-and-white photos tell the truth. That's why insurance companies use them.

  Allan Sekula

  Black And White, Use, Insurance Companies

  Allan Sekula, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh (2002). “Fish story”

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• My ultimare goal is, without illusion and without sentimentality, merely by telling the truth as I see it, to break your heart. If I can break your heart and cause your awareness to expand to include another person's experience, even a fictional person's experience, and to inhabit for a moment their sorrow and suffering, then I think it expands us as people.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Heart, Thinking, People

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• I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.'

  Elaine Stritch

  Dad, Jail, Long

  "The Way We Live Now: 2-24-02: Questions For Elaine Stritch; Of A Certain Age". Interview with Liz Welch, www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2002.

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• The other thing that gives a scientific man the creeps in the world today are the methods of choosing leaders - in every nation. Today, for example, in the United States, the two political parties have decided to employ public relations men, that is, advertising men, who are trained in the necessary methods of telling the truth or lying in order to develop a product.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Lying, Party, Men

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• There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the truth or obey the laws they are sworn to uphold. I do not believe they protect me in any way.

  Henry Rollins

  Believe, America, Law

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• I'm not very eloquent about things like this, but I think that writing and photography go together. I don't mean that they are related arts, because they're not. But the person doing it, I think, learns from both things about accuracy of the eye, about observation, and about sympathy toward what is in front of you... It's about honesty, or truth telling, and a way to find it in yourself, how to need it and learn from it.

  Eudora Welty

  Photography, Art, Honesty

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• All I did was tell the truth. That's is what the whole show is about! And if Politically Incorrect has to go down for it, so be it!

  Bill Maher

  Truth, Shows, Whole

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• I'm not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that's what makes my comedy different.

  Bernie Mac

  Thinking, Different, Comedy

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• Nothing is more abhorrent to me than sugary-sweet photography full of pretense, poses, and gimmickry. For this reason, I have allowed myself to tell the truth about our times and people in a sincere manner.

  August Sander

  Photography, Sweet, People

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• If you tell a lie that's big enough, and you tell it often enough, people will believe you're telling the truth, even if what you're saying is total crap.

  Richard Belzer

  Lying, Believe, People

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

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• I say, when you tell the truth, you never offend nobody, particularly if you do it with dignity.

  Pat Cooper

  Truth, Dignity, Ifs

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

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• [Eugene Smith] was always writing these diatribes about truth, and how he wanted to tell the truth, the truth, the truth. It was a real rebel position. It was kind of like a teenager's position: why can't things be like they should be? Why can't I do what I want? I latched on to that philosophy. One day I snapped, hey, you know, I know a story that no one's ever told, never seen, and I've lived it. It's my own story and my friends' story.

  Larry Clark

  Philosophy, Real, Teenager

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• At the end of the day, what I show is real life. I tell the truth. And the truth can be shocking.

  Larry Clark

  Real, The End Of The Day, Ends

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• ...truth-telling may be an ethic, adopted by photojournalists as a behavior, but experience shows us that it is not embedded in the medium like silver salts in film.

  Andy Grundberg

  May, Salt, Ethics

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• There are a lot of things that got me into working with photos. The main thing is that I saw both what was being said and not being said with photos in the newspapers... I found out how you can fool people with photos, really fool them... You can lie and tell the truth by putting the wrong title or wrong captions under them, and that's roughly what was being done.

  John Heartfield

  Lying, People, Titles

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• There is a lot of social photography being done now to point to the untruth of photography. It's getting very dull now. So, okay photography doesn't tell the truth. So what? Everyone has known this forever.

  Abelardo Morell

  Photography, Forever, Done

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 2, 2003.

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