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“You need to have a lot of close family around you, a lot of friends to keep you honest. Take your time, take a year and just slow everything down a little bit. Get away from the success part, stay with yourself. Go off on a beach somewhere or do something to keep yourself aligned right.”

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Author:George Lucas

“People generally like happy endings, which is something I learned from my years in advertising. I like happy endings myself, but only if they're honest. I'm just as happy with a terrible, hopeless ending.”

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Author:Augusten Burroughs

“You do try to write songs that you feel like people can relate to and you try to be as honest as you can so that people hear your records and they feel like, "Oh, my god. This is exactly how I feel. I went through this."”

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Author:Sevyn Streeter

“I respect anyone who's honest to themselves and able to bring that into their work in an entertaining fashion.”

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Author:Doc Brown

“I think doing different accents is part of the job of acting, really. It's something else that I quite enjoy the challenge of, to be honest.”

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Author:David Tennant

“I think it's a sacrifice that you have to make, because you lay yourself open for people to accuse and disrespect you. But it's worth it. It's worth it because not too many people are too honest anymore.”

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Author:Ronnie Radke

“Only a handful of people are honest when they sing. A lot of people sing about very vague things, or they'll sing about someone breaking up with them, but a lot of people don't go too deep into their past and stuff, because they don't want it to be let out. I just do it anyway.”

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Author:Ronnie Radke

“I'm a big bike fan - my homies got Harleys and all kind of choppers - but to be honest I'm scared to ride motorcycles like that.”

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Author:Gucci Mane

“It's so important to reach out to people you trust, and who can give you honest feedback, and keep those people close to you. You don't want to surround yourself with enablers.”

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Author:Tim Gunn

“I trust kids far more than I do adults. Kids give you the honest opinion. They tell the truth.”

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Author:Johnny Depp

“I don't do well with modern films, to be honest. Opening credits, and I'm just gone.”

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Author:Johnny Depp

“Be good and honest to your fellow man and try to do something good for somebody.”

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Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“My favorite kinds of stories are the ones that have these big crazy genre hijinks and then a real honest, meaty, emotional story where we're watching a character grapple with some real things.”

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Author:Greg Pak

“I'm not in a recession. I'm doing very, very well. I'm doing incredibly well. I just want to be honest. I really am kicking ass.”

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Author:Jim Carrey

“I think having a good agent is key. I've been with mine for ten years now, and she's very honest with me. There are a lot of times I've sent her books that were not so good because I was tired of writing, or panicked about money, and she's told me flat out, "You don't want this to be your next book. Trust me."”

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Author:Sarah Dessen

“My agent is so totally honest, which is just what every writer needs. She won't let me sell a crappy book, even if I want to.”

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Author:Sarah Dessen

“The problem is, your ego sometimes tells you that you can do many things. But sometimes it's best to stay focused and be honest with yourself.”

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Author:Sylvester Stallone

“Everyone wants to be tested and challenged. Everyone would like a good, honest fight to exhaust their frustrations.”

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Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I've often been a little concerned by people who say they are color-blind, people who claim, in some ways, not to be aware of race, and I hope that those who will be looking for a vision of the future will be a little more honest, and say race actually does matter.”

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Author:Desmond Tutu

“Reality has taught us that no woman can build an honest life without sacrificing something along the way. Deciding what will be sacrificed is not easy.”

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Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“Peace of counscious is greater than peace of mind. Peace of mind is more externally oriented. Peace of consciousness is when you know you have been honest in all your business dealings.”

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Author:Stephen Covey

“Whatever is a cruel wrong, Whatever is unjust, The honest years that speed along Will trample in the dust.”

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Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“Be honest about what you can get. To make a sacrifice and to get what you want you need to be very certain. In other words: always think about your objective, have a clear goal and commit to it from the heart.”

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Author:Sophia Loren

“When an injustice happens, we want to be vindicated. People feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong. If we're honest, we'll admit that we usually want the person who hurt us to pay for what they did. We can't get past this until we get the revelation that only God can pay us back. He is our Vindicator - He will heal and restore us if we will trust Him and forgive our enemies as He has told us to do.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“I am honest; I try to be truthful. I like people and wish us well. We are not always deserving of our own best wishes.”

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Author:Nikki Giovanni

“I'm moving - as a person and as a writer - through time. I'm a different age. I'm thinking about different things. I have different life experiences. I'm trying to get closer to being honest. And by closer I mean that at different ages I have different ideas of what the truth is, and at any point I'm trying to express that at that moment in time.”

“I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie.”

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Author:Charlie Kaufman

“Let's be honest, this is a consumer based economy in America. That's all we manufacture here is need and appetite. We are the world's mouth. They make things in other countries, and they're like, 'Send it to America; they'll eat it.'”

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Author:Marc Maron

“It's a big mistake when encyclopedias say "loyal" - this dog, this breed has this ability to be loyal, to be a one person dog. I don't agree with that. I think all dogs are honest, all dogs have integrity, all dogs are loyal and they're all capable of loving you. It doesn't come from the breed. It comes from the dog.”

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Author:Cesar Millan

“I can't imagine anything worse than trying to impress a girl with dinner. To be honest, I'm always impressing myself, not other people.”

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Author:Marco Pierre White

“The whole key is to be honest with yourself, find the weak spots, work on it, get it done.”

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Author:Wladimir Klitschko

“I write because I love to. I'm very, very fortunate to have found something that I love doing that also earns my living. But to be honest, I'd write even if I weren't being paid to.”

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Author:Christopher Paul Curtis

“I like music that is really pure and honest. For me, acoustic music, like a piece played on the piano, is very personal.”

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Author:Shook

“Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch. This valley is loaded to the gills with a whole lot of totally insane people who honest to God believe that they can be the next Bill Gates or the next Scott McNealy. And that is genuinely stupid.”

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Author:Tom Peters

“Moonlight is very honest and very special to me. I feel like this is the most personal music I've made, by far. I'm very proud of it and I'm very excited. It's scary...it's vulnerable and kind of terrifying.”

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Author:Ariana Grande

“To be honest, I want readers to be wrung out. As a novelist, I don't have a political agenda or specific philosophy; I'm trying to create a gut-wrenching, intimate, memorable experience.”

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Author:Jillian Medoff

“I encourage my students to be honest in their assessment of both the published work we read and the work of their classmates. I think there's always the occasion for discussing elements of craft, whether the student's poem is terrible or quite wonderful.”

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Author:Cate Marvin

“It's not supposed to make you distracted from your life, it's supposed to make you challenge the ongoing distraction with focused intention. Simply discussing how asleep we can be gives credence to the possibility of finding moments of true honest alertness.”

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Author:Dan Mangan

“You have to expose part of yourself to create a character deep enough for readers to care about. You try not to because it's hard and at times shameful, but then when you read those pages over and you see they have no life to them so you throw them away and force yourself to be more honest. So I suppose the answer is I see myself in all my characters, in their best moments and in their worst.”

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Author:Adam Haslett

“What I strive to do with songwriting is be really honest, authentic and try to be open and share that with people. I choose that over trying to be clever, poetic, or lyrical.”

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Author:Brett Dennen

“I can pretty much spend an entire week talking about how the writing process works, to be honest! It can really vary from project to project and is often dependent on when you're brought on board, the genre, the platform and the narrative desires of the project.”

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Author:Rhianna Pratchett

“It's important to be honest enough about your work, and the areas in which you can improve. I'm still learning every day and I'm still Hungry to create more and better work, hence the name.”

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Author:Rankin

“You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base.”

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Author:Ethan Canin

“If you're going to do something in your life do it 100%. Don't question it just go after it. If you don't believe in it or you're not honest with yourself it's not going to work and that's just something that I learned over the years.”

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Author:Kevin Martin

“Being totally open with your feelings can make everything difficult. However, in front of the person I love, I feel it is absolutely necessary to be honest and open. I belong to the type who will open up about everything.”

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Author:Joo Won

“Cut the crap. Just don't try to be anything that you aren't, have ambition but when it comes to lyrics especially just be honest and write from the heart almost to an awkward degree, at least that's what works for me.”

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Author:Max Bemis

“Sometimes I'm just a little bit too honest. There was some things that were going on behind the scenes that I didn't like because it's not what hip-hop is about. Hip-hop is about honesty and it's about being real to the people, and I kinda felt like there's some instances where some artists aren't 100% honest with the people. Their integrity is lacking sometimes. And sometimes it comes out.”

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Author:Wale

“Trust your actors. That's why I work with the same actors time and time again. I encourage them to change the dialogue to achieve one thing: keep the characters honest.”

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Author:Edward Burns

“The sad thing is that often when you expose your secrets and become more honest with yourself, you find the reaction from the outside world is more complicated than the intense guilt you yourself have inflicted.”

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Author:James Scott

“I want to make honest music and tell honest stories that hopefully reflect the thoughts and feelings other people have.”

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Author:Steve Grand

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