Truth Is Quotes - Page 39

• I don't sense that people are loving the adults the way they have learned to love kids, because the truth is, they're not going to be cute in the same as kids are. And they shouldn't have to be cute to deserve and merit our attention and support.

  John Donvan

  Cute, Kids, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The "truth" is the poem itself. Just because someone writes a poem about a feeling she has does not mean that the feeling will stay forever. The truth of the emotion of the poem remains, even if the particular truth of the poet changes.

  Denise Duhamel

  Writing, Mean, Forever

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The truth is I tried to write for years and I wasn't very good.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Writing, Years, Very Good

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• In fact, I always assumed that most everything I read was true, to one degree or another. I couldn't articulate this fact until after I read Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and he discussed Happening Truth, Story Truth, and Emotional Truth. I always understood that the facts of The Sun Also Rises or On the Road were the facts as dictated by a certain narrative structure, but because the experiences of those characters echoed my own feelings about the world. I knew there was a Happening Truth behind them.

  Kevin Keck

  Character, Emotional, Narrative Structure

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My brother is severely autistic, so when I was a kid I spent a lot of time as a teenager in camps and programs for autistic kids. When I went to McGill as an undergraduate, I figured I'd be a therapist working with these kids. The truth is, and I knew this even back then, I'm just not good at this. I'm too empathic to do this sort of thing.

  Paul Bloom

  Brother, Teenager, Kids

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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• The truth is, the vast majority of medical care for lower income people in America is shitty. If you go to a free clinic to receive any form of care, the majority of those will be overcrowded with nurses who are tired because they have to work with so many people. We are not a country that invests public money into taking care of poor people, so we usually rely on clinics with very overburdened and underpaid staff.

  Molly Crabapple

  Country, Tired, America

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think that whatever we express in terms of the potential truth is above all else about mobilizing ourselves for ourselves. We learn about ourselves as individuals. Identification with Palestine is universal and not restricted to geographic boundaries. It's a question of moral and ethical positions vis-à-vis all the injustices that surround us.

  Elia Suleiman

  Thinking, Moral, Injustice

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• Young people - there's been very little places in positions of authority in law enforcement for young people's skill sets, but the truth is we need them.

  Patricia Arquette

  Law, Skills, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I learned as a really young kid, when my dad was telling me one story and my mom was telling me another that, even as a 5-year-old boy, there was no way that both of these stories are true. Something in the middle is true, and I have to figure out what it is, what the truth is, and I never did quite figure that out.

  Moshe Kasher

  Mom, Dad, Kids

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

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• I obviously wanted to play for the Kansas City Royals. (Laughter) I also knew that was far-fetched. The truth is I don't really know what I wanted to do.

  Josh Earnest

  Laughter, Play, Cities

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• But the truth is, at some point, our films - almost every single one of them - are really bad. And it's largely hats off to John Lasseter and Ed Catmull who have set up a system whereby they're expecting it.

  Pete Docter

  Hats, Film, Expecting

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• If it's true that Christ was correct in saying that faith in himself is the only way to heaven, then sharing that truth is a demonstration of love, not hatred, toward unbelievers.

  Robert Jeffress

  Hatred, Heaven, Way

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• It's for balance, if you want to do that. But the truth is that we all know how we're supposed to eat. And so if you have fried chicken and mashed potatoes and white gravy, then the next day you have, like a grape and you're totally evened out and you're good.

  Trisha Yearwood

  Next Day, White, Balance

  "Not My Job: Singer Trisha Yearwood Gets Quizzed On Unhappy Couples". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. February 27, 2016.

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• I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a truth beneath the surface in that way as well.

  Christopher Rice

  Reality, Thinking, Needs

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• The truth is these characters [of Batman story] evolve, and there's a lot of hands in the supporting of these characters. It's great when everybody can know where everything came from. It's important for the legacy of them.

  Zack Snyder

  Character, Hands, Important

  Source: 411mania.com

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• Anything is possible, and the truth is any human being at any given moment, no matter how good they are - not only at their job but also as a person - they're capable of anything, and it's not always a conscious thing.

  Sarah Paulson

  Jobs, Matter, Moments

  Source: www.ign.com

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• The truth is that most families have no smart ones and no pretty ones. Most families are a bunch of unattractive dopes. And it turns out that the Bush family, like most families, has no smart ones. I was not surprised to see this.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Smart, Dope, Unattractive

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• What is the truth is that every one of my films is a film that I'd love to go see, and I think that's very important because I always think it's a mistake to make movies for other people, or to make them for a demographic, or try to second guess an audience.

  Peter Jackson

  Mistake, Thinking, People

  "Peter Jackson's labor of love". "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2005.

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• I think a lot of people are afraid the truth is in conflict with God. And are unable to let go and let the truth of the world.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Letting Go, Thinking, People

  "I Came Out First to God". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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• There's always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.

  Adam McKay

  Thinking, People, Way

  "Gross Prophets". Interview with Brett Martin, www.gq.com. July 12, 2010.

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• I just don't want the fear from the right to be used by the [Barack] Obama administration to silence critics. We have to be willing to tell the truth because we're trying to speak about conditions that are being rendered invisible in our prisons and schools in the hood and so forth and so on.

  Cornel West

  School, Silence, Trying

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• The condition of truth, is to allow suffering to speak. Which means attend to suffering of the least of these, of the orphan, the widow, the poor, the working people, the gay brother, the lesbian sister, the transgender, the black people.

  Cornel West

  Brother, Mean, Gay

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• It doesn't matter if the truth is right there out in front of your eyes. You will find a way, a mechanism, in order to keep your own system of denial. So as I always say it, denial is a river that runs in the - in Egypt. So we became very good in that.

  Bassem Youssef

  Running, Eye, Egypt

  "Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.

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• You want to be commercially successful and critically acclaimed. But the truth is, there's only a few Bruce Springsteens and Paul McCartneys out there.

  Michael Buble

  Successful, Want, Springsteen

  "Michael Buble On Fishing, Sinatra And Auto-Tune". Interview with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. April 28, 2013.

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• When you say: The simple truth is this, and then you pause, and then you finish the sentence, people stop, and they think specifically about what you're saying. And it's, in essence, trying to boil it down to something that's very understandable and meaningful.

  Frank Luntz

  Meaningful, Simple, Thinking

  "Frank Luntz: How To 'Win' With Smart Messaging". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www-s4.npr.org. March 8, 2011.

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