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• Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful, That's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.

  Helen McCrory

  Lying, Theatre, Cameras

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

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• The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that and then I put it out there and say to you, "What do you think?" I hope that you think well of it, obviously.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Trying, Literature

  "I'm returning to India, deal with it - Salman Rushdie to NDTV". Interview with Barkha Dutt, www.ndtv.com. January 25, 2012.

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• I can be glib and truthful all at once.

  Richard Russo

  I Can

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• You can either look at things in a brutal, truthful way that's depressing, or you can screw around and have fun.

  David Spade

  Depressing, Fun, Looks

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

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• I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

  Rick Springfield

  Song, Writing, Autobiography

  "Rick Springfield on His Sex Addiction, Depression and Attempted Suicide". Interview with Jeanne Wolf, parade.com. October 15, 2010.

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• I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Want, Sake, Painting

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• I think it's really important that the people who are going to make decisions for other people have fair, truthful and compassionate regard for all people, not just some people.

  Sharon Stone

  Thinking, People, Decision

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• You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if artists are true artists and not just mere musicians they need to be truthful because the music doesn't come from them, it comes from the universe and it's to be shared. At best, we're skilled presenters, and I say that at best.

  Serj Tankian

  Artist, Thinking, Musician

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

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• I don't believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it's really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Believe, Fighting, Bisexual

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The way to my heart is by being truthful and spontaneous.

  Michelle Trachtenberg

  Heart, Way, Spontaneity

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• I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.

  Jesse Ventura

  Book, Kids, Opinion

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• I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.

  Elie Wiesel

  Honest, Memoir, Being Honest

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• A man who is truthful and does not mean ill even to his adversary will be slow to believe charges even against his foes. He will, however, try to understand the viewpoints of his opponents and will always keep an open mind and seek every opportunity of serving his opponents.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Mean, Opportunity

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.209, Penguin Books India

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• No other animal on earth has portrayed such a disregard for life than mankind.

  Anthony D. Williams

  Nature, Animal, Earth

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• I love animals. All animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog — or a chicken, or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian.

  Peter Dinklage

  Dog, Hurt, Cat

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• The majority of my background is multi-camera format, which is very broad and a very arch perception of reality. Whereas single camera tends to be more truthful and a little more intimate of a medium. Friends was an education in intelligent comedic banter; in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education in group dynamic. I came out of there with a masters degree in comedy.

  Matt LeBlanc

  Intelligent, Reality, Perception

  "Matt LeBlanc: 'Because I'm much more reserved than Joey, people think I'm depressed'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2012.

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• I find that the best way into things is to open my heart up to it and allow it to be as truthful and honest as I can be, and I can make it. It's hard to do that; it's hard to open yourself up to something.

  Lee Pace

  Heart, Way, Honest

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• I look forward to the end of all this money-making part of the career, to be truthful.

  Paul Guilfoyle

  Careers, Looks, Making Money

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• I think the success of my work stems from being truthful.

  Catherine O'Hara

  Thinking, Being Truthful, Stem

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

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• Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.

  Billy Crystal

  Acting, Comedy, De Niro

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• It looks like a marathon. And I'm proud that I'm not a DNF (did not finish). I'm not a DNF yet. I just kept going. I think that's been the key is just to keep going and really try to get better and try to be as truthful as I can and hope that good things come my way.

  Jennifer Beals

  Thinking, Keys, Get Better

  Chicago Tribune, March 21, 2011.

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• In order for comedy to be funny you have to play the truth of the moment. But if you're not being completely truthful to the basis of the character, its not going to be funny.

  Stephen Root

  Character, Order, Play

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• You will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal, there really is only one, and that is this: to fulfill the highest most truthful expression of yourself as a human being. You want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around you. Theologian Howard Thurman said it best. He said, “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

  Oprah Winfrey

  Expression, People, Goal

  Oprah Winfrey's Commencement Address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.harvard.edu. May 30, 2013.

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• As actors, if we are truthful to ourselves and we know what we can do and what we cannot do and just go after it, there are possibilities out there. If you don't try, you won't find out if you get them or not.

  Navid Negahban

  Trying, Actors, Possibility

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• Honesty in art inspires and moves me. I am passionate about creating truthful experiences as much as I love being the spectator to a brilliant body of work.

  Crystal Reed

  Art, Honesty, Moving

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