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• My job is to get people to write something truthful, something about truth and beauty - wherever they are - and to understand how literature is made. And then if they become great writers, that's great, and probably has nothing to do with me.

  Grace Paley

  Jobs, Writing, People

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• I love truthful songs that tell a story and talk about people and their lives. If a song calls for a tear, then we will cry. If a song calls for a smile, then we will laugh. That is what I like to do.

  Gene Watson

  Song, People, Laughing

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• The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than 'the gang in possession,' and its days are numbered.

  H. G. Wells

  Lying, Army, Men

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.14869, Delphi Classics

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• I think 'Jesus' is the most offensive word in anyone's life. When we mention Jesus, He is the only one who says 'I am God. I am holy. I am the only way to a truthful life.' No one - not Mohammad, not Buddha, not anyone says that they were holy, not anyone says that they were God, not anyone says that they faced the devil face to face and won.

  Nick Vujicic

  Jesus, Thinking, Devil

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• I love singing, but I feel very naked and very vulnerable when I'm singing sometimes. With acting, I always think that it doesn't matter what you are as long as you're truthful in that moment. But with singing, you always have to hit the note. It's not like you can just go, 'Oh, it doesn't really matter what note you sing!'

  Jake Epstein

  Thinking, Long, Singing

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• When I sing, I close my eyes. If I see a feather, everything is fine. Without this image in my mind, the sound is not 'truthful' enough and I must begin again. I have to.

  Sarah Brightman

  Eye, Mind, Sound

  "The Trees They Grow So High". Notes in the album's CD booklet, 1988.

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• Piano is very elegant. I also think it's a very truthful instrument.

  Howard Shore

  Thinking, Piano, Instruments

  Source: collider.com

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• I suppose we think euphemistically that all writers write because they have something to say that is truthful and honest and pointed and important. And I suppose I subscribe to that, too. But God knows when I look back over thirty years of professional writing, I'm hard-pressed to come up with anything that's important. Some things are literate, some things are interesting, some things are classy, but very damn little is important.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• I think any film that is based on life or real events you want it to be accurate but what really matters is that it's truthful. That is not always the same thing. You really want to convey the spirit of the enterprise rather than ticking every single factual box.

  Lucinda Coxon

  Real, Thinking, Events

  "Catching up with Coxon in London about The Danish Girl". Interview with Jerry Nunn, chicago.gopride.com. December 30, 2015.

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• I'm always surprised to hear or read my work described, "In angry tones, she says." No! In truthful tones! Does truth have a tone? I don't know.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Doe, Tone, Knows

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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• That's my goal, is to stay in a truthful place. And sometimes that means writing a silly song, or singing about sex or singing about environmental destruction or heartbreak, or my grandmother. The subject isn't what the core is about, it's about truthfulness and authenticity and that just comes from my heart and soul.

  Mirah

  Song, Sex, Silly

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I like my lyrics to feel conversational and truthful, as if we're having real talk. I don't really like generic lyrics.

  Meredith Brooks

  Real, Feels, Generic

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• Poetry is my first love. Photography often fails to look into things. It looks at things. Poetry is so much more truthful.

  Larry Towell

  Photography, First Love, Looks

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• The importance is getting to something truthful and in that moment can only be in that moment. I don't like to use the word "improvise," but it's a continual writing of the film.

  Abdellatif Kechiche

  Writing, Use, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• What I believe in is being transparent and truthful and always trying to get the facts right. People will make their own judgment of whether or not they want to trust you based on how transparent you are with them and the principles that you bring to the game.

  Jeremy Scahill

  Believe, Games, Always Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• I think the biggest thing is just making sure that you do the work that you connect with, personally, and that you do work where you can really bring something to the table. It's just about being truthful to yourself.

  Susanna White

  Thinking, Tables, Being Truthful

  Source: collider.com

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• Beautiful is he who recognizes what is truly beautiful even if the surface is ugly. Truthful is he who says what is true even if the truth is ugly. Ugly is he who measures beauty by its exterior without first weighing the interior. And ugly is the man who judges harshly what he sees looking out without first judging what he sees in the mirror.

  Suzy Kassem

  Beautiful, Men, Mirrors

  FaceBook post by Suzy Kassem from Jul 06, 2012

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• I feel like you can't really be truthful as an artist and empathize with the human experience, unless you know your truth and you're not living a lie. So I'm learning through it, and it's making me a better person, and it's making me a better artist, I think.

  Diane Guerrero

  Lying, Artist, Thinking

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

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• I think it's very important, and I think that what young people will learn from my experience is that even presidents have to do that and there are consequences when you don't. But I also think that there will be a box score, and there will be that one negative, and then there will be the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times when the record will show that I did not abuse my authority as president, that I was truthful with the American people.

  William J. Clinton

  Thinking, People, Abuse

  "Transcript: President Bill Clinton's news conference", www.cnn.com. March 18, 1999.

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• I am not so concerned with how many Rotten Tomatoes we have - although the good reviews are to be wished for, of course - but I have my hands full in the daily housekeeping of doing Maura right and being truthful to this experience.

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Hands, Tomatoes, Rotten

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• What I like about stand-up is, it's truthful. I'm not up there trying to get laid or look cool. I'm up there because I really love it, and it makes people happier.

  Jay Mohr

  People, Comedian, Trying

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• Images at their passionate and truthful best are as powerful as words can ever be. If they alone cannot bring change, they can at least provide and understanding mirror of man's actions, thereby sharpening human awareness and awakening conscience.

  Cornell Capa

  Powerful, Men, Mirrors

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• My photographs tried to find the politicians at their most wary, most vulnerable, and perhaps most truthful moments. I wanted the photographs to reveal the person through stance and stare, when he or she was most reflective or off guard, in order to measure the person and event unfolding.

  Jerome Liebling

  Order, Events, Vulnerable

  Jerome Liebling, Alan Trachtenberg (1997). “Jerome Liebling: The Minnesota Photographs, 1949-1969”, p.110, Minnesota Historical Society Press

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• In fact, the new malleability of the image may eventually lead to a profound undermining of photography's status as an inherently truthful pictorial form... If even a minimal confidence in photography does not survive, it is questionable whether many pictures will have meaning anymore, not only as symbols but as evidence.

  Fred Ritchin

  Photography, Profound, Doe

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• There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any less truthful than any other photographs.

  Taryn Simon

  Photography, Said, Absolute Truth

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