“I am very up front about about my inability to pronounce things correctly. I said real-uh-tor instead of realtor until about five years ago. I just admit I have no idea how to say Theyskens! Don't be intimidated. Just be honest!” YearsSaidIdeasRealFiveHonestFrontsYears AgoBeing HonestNo IdeaFive YearsInabilityIntimidatedRealtors Author:Gillian Jacobs
“I can deal with conservatives in a democracy. With real conservatives, I don't agree with them, but I understand why they believe what they believe and I believe they're being honest with me about it.” BelieveI CanRealI BelieveDealsDemocracyHonestAgreeBeing Honest Author:Steve Earle
“I would use sport as an escape from the pain of what was real. Instead of dealing with the pain, instead of being honest about the pain, instead of asking for help - if I had to do it differently, I would do it differently in that regard.” IfsRealHelpingUsePainSportsHonestAskingRegardBeing HonestAsking For Help Author:R.A. Dickey
“Teaching is not about information. It's about having an honest intellectual relationship with your students. It requires no method, no tools, and no training. Just the ability to be real. And if you can't be real, then you have no right to inflict yourself upon innocent children.” IfsChildrenRealAbilityTeachingHonestInformationStudentsIntellectualTrainingToolsMethodInnocentBeing RealInnocent Children Author:Paul Lockhart
“Being comedic is a skill, because there is a fine line where the context is important. And being dramatic is just being honest and real in that moment.” ImportantRealMomentsLinesHonestFineSkillsBeing HonestDramaticThat MomentJust BeingComedicFine Lines Author:Bob Odenkirk
“What's compelling about the story and what's very honest about the story is that it's very real and it's happening. There are 200,000 women in active duty, and over 40% of them are moms. This experience is shared by thousands of women, and no one is right or wrong.” RealStoriesHonestDutyMomHappeningsActiveCompelling Author:Michelle Monaghan
“In setting up a business under the name and meaning of the Golden Rule, I was publicly binding myself, in my business relations, to a principle which had been a real and intimate part of my family upbringing. Our idea was to make money and build business through serving the community with fair dealing and honest value.” IdeasRealValuesNamesCommunityPrinciplesHonestFairsMy FamilyRelationSettingGoldenSettingsMaking MoneyIntimateServingUpbringingBindingGolden RuleServing The Community Author:James Cash Penney
“I enjoy real people, down-to-earth people who are true to themselves and honest to your face - good or bad.” PeopleRealEarthFacesEnjoyHonestYour FaceDown To Earth Author:Christina Aguilera
“The most effective strategy for successful living is really no strategy at all. It is, rather, to be real, to be honest, to be authentic, to be you.” RealSuccessfulHonestStrategyBeing HonestBe YouBeing Real Author:Ralph Marston
“What [Louis Armstrong] does is real, and true, and honest, and simple, and even noble. Every time this man puts his trumpet to his lips, even if only to practice three notes, he does it with his whole soul.” IfsMenDoeRealSoulWholeThreeSimplePracticeHonestNotesLipsNobleTrumpetsArmstrong Author:Leonard Bernstein
“Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different plane from an obviously subjective form of visual communication such as painting.” PeopleIdeasDifferentRealFormHonestPaintingCommunicationPhotographPlanesVisualsSubjective Author:Tibor Kalman
“There is a reality to the way the actors play the scenes, given that there is a real, animatronic, moving robot in the room. So the level of nuance and realism in performance was higher because we built the real ones, and it keeps the visual effects guys honest.” WayRealPlayRealityMovingGuyActorsGivenLevelsRoomsEffectsHonestHigherSceneBuiltPerformancesVisualsRealismRobotsNuanceReal OnesVisual Effects Author:Shawn Anthony Levy
“I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't sure was going to be interesting to other people. But I guess it was.” PeopleWritingRealSongStuffInterestingHonestCome UpSongwritingSongwritersWriting Songs Author:John Prine
“On my best day, I cannot do Scottish people. I don't even believe that's a real accent, to be honest with you. I think they probably sound like us when they're in the house. It's how they keep people away from them.” PeopleThinkingBelieveRealHouseSoundHonestBeing HonestAccentsScottish Author:Russell Peters
“The real honesty is a responsibility to the present moment. It needs tremendous awareness. You have to be honest to the present moment, not to the past, not to the future.” NeedsRealMomentsPastResponsibilityHonestAwarenessHonestyBeing HonestPresent Moment Author:Rajneesh
“I think it's really important for real artists to make sure they're honest.” ThinkingImportantRealArtistHonestReal Artists Author:Pixie Lott
“I hope that people can relate to my music, it's very relatable, it's very fun, it's very honest. It's very, very, honest. I know that my fans will probably learn a lot about me by listening to my music, if they really listen to the lyrics. I'm sure they'll learn about a new side to me, it's all very honest, I don't put on any... there's no fake-ness to it, it's very real and I hope my fans can relate to it and that it's enjoyable for all ages.” PeopleIfsKnowsRealAgeFunSidesFansHonestListeningRelateFakeEnjoyableRelatable Author:Ariana Grande
“Particularly with MFA students, who have so much invested - literally and figuratively - I feel like honest criticism is something they're owed. It's not going to be easier in the real world, surely.” WorldFeelsRealHonestStudentsEasierCriticismReal WorldHonest Criticism Author:Tod Goldberg
“I made a conscious decision when I was writing that book to depict in real time how I treated it, and how I thought about it, and how I portrayed it to other people, because I wanted the story to be one of change from that to a more honest appraisal, a more accepting appraisal of myself and other people in that world.” PeopleWorldWritingMadeBookRealStoriesWantedDecisionAcceptingHonestConsciousTreatedAppraisal Author:Melissa Febos
“Trying to tell an authentic, raw and honest story without making it therapy. Separating myself enough to have perspective while putting myself in the emotional hot seat so that I could make this thing real. Asking for help. Delegating responsibility. Standing up for myself. Fighting the impulse to be sweet and likeable 24/7. Being open to all ideas, but staying true to the spine of the story. Knowing when to let go and when to hold on and fight like hell. Getting out of my own way. Shall I go on?” WayTryingIdeasRealEnoughHelpingStoriesFightingMy OwnResponsibilityHellKnowingHonestEmotionalSweetPerspectiveGoes OnLetting GoStandingHotAskingImpulseTherapySeatsStayingSpineStay TrueSeparatingLikeableAsking For Help Author:Jessie Kahnweiler
“I'm always going to look and refer to things and remember things differently than perhaps a real or honest viewer can. I'm tainted with knowing too much. But I still very much love it.” LooksStillsRealRememberKnowingToo MuchHonestViewersMuch LoveTaintedKnowing Too Much Author:Kevin D. Williamson
“I was attracted to the positive outlook on women especially exploring relationships with different people and being confident and comfortable and strong. That was the kind of thing that was appealing to me, because that's what's real, and that's honest, and it's nothing to be ashamed of. That's what single women do.” PeopleKindDifferentRealStrongHonestComfortableAshamedExploringOutlookDifferent PeoplesPositive OutlookBe ConfidentSingle Women Author:Dakota Johnson
“I try to make all my work as honest as possible. I want the audience to feel like they're watching two people talking-having a conversation-as opposed to watching actors fake it. I want the audience to get lost in the fact that this is so good it could be real.” PeopleWantFeelsTryingTwoRealFactsActorsLostTalkingAudienceHonestConversationFakeBeing RealPeople Talking Author:Danny Burstein
“Its funny because when I did feel like I came out and I just felt like I was being truthful to myself, (it was at) that point I became very successful. So you know, it took a true kind of facing that truth of myself and being honest, that was when the real kind of fame or whatever that kind of stuff happened for me.” KnowsFeelsKindRealFeltStuffSuccessfulHappenedHonestFameBeing HonestTruthfulBeing Truthful Author:Margaret Cho
“To be honest with you, I don't know how even to articulate it at this point, because sometimes the real difference in the seasons perhaps will come in the way the viewership responds and the audience responds. The thing about the show is - we realign a lot about it once our audience watches it. We learn things that we can't even anticipate.” KnowsWayRealSometimesShowsDifferencesWatchesAudienceKnow HowHonestSeasonsBeing HonestAnticipate Author:Steve Zissis
“I think "honest" sometimes gets used to describe a real depiction of real life. I don't think that's necessarily what we're doing. We created these fake characters and we're just trying to figure out what they would do in situations they enter into.” ThinkingTryingRealSometimesCharacterUsedSituationHonestFiguresReal LifeFakeDepiction Author:Paul Rust
“I didn't really enjoy modeling in Bombay. I floated through it in the hopes that I would get my ticket to the next big thing. There was no real joy that I got out of it, to be really honest.” RealBigsJoyNextEnjoyHonestBeing RealTicketsBig ThingsModelingBombayReal Joy Author:Freida Pinto
“"Keep it 100" means keeping it 100 percent real. It comes from the expression ... "keeping it real," which means you are being completely honest and 100 percent real means you are really being honest, which is kind of a contradiction of sorts. You're either being honest or you're not.” KindMeanRealHonestExpressionPercentBeing HonestContradictionKeeping It Real Author:Larry Wilmore
“There's a truth to the fact that it's hard to be real. It's easy to be indulgent. It's easy to be bubble gum, but it's hard to find a real thing that really makes your soul tick. It's painful and honest. It can be more challenging than just a sad song.” RealSoulHardFactsSongEasyChallengesHonestPainfulYour SoulBeing RealBubblesReal ThingsTickGumSad SongBubble Gum Author:Mat Kearney
“I understand what the dynamic of the brand Ed Gordon has been all these years. I'm just trying to keep that as real and as honest as I can and I don't take it lightly.” TryingYearsHas BeensI CanRealHonestBrands Author:Ed Gordon
“It was something that came sort of matter-of-factually. Because there - it's like really - real honest engagement with the people around me and just like really honestly being a little bit confused, quite frankly, about Harlem.” PeopleLittlesRealMatterBitsHonestLittle BitHonestlyConfusedEngagementHarlem Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I know a number of people who - from the comments they make - are going to vote for [Donald] Trump when that curtain closes. But let's keep it real honest here: They are voting for a xenophobic, anti-Latino white supremacist - don't try to pretty it up. This is now the age when people want to be white supremacists, but they don't actually want to be known for it.” PeopleKnowsWantTryingRealAgeWhiteNumbersKnownHonestTrumpVoteVotingCommentCurtainsLatinoKeeping It Real Author:Junot Diaz
“I'm afraid that a certain situation drives me to be someone that I am not, and I always want to be honest and real. I want to be me.” WantRealCertainSituationHonestBeing Honest Author:Omar Chaparro
“Google has - at least at this point - maintained the line where it keeps organic results separate from the advertisements. But over time - so in other words, you still get the - there still are honest to goodness results which are based on an algorithm which is based on how important or how many people link to that particular site, so there's that. At the very beginning, there were unobtrusive advertisements on the side that sort of showed up when you typed in certain phrases. Over time, the amount of real estate that those ads take up has increased.” PeopleStillsImportantRealCertainSidesLinesResultsHonestParticularAmountGoodnessPhrasesLinksAdsGoogleSiteEstatesAdvertisementsAlgorithms Author:Tim Wu
“I think Twitter is kind of boring, to be honest. To me, it's not even real life.” ThinkingKindRealHonestBoringReal LifeBeing Honest Author:Jen Kirkman
“You make real progress when somebody is honest enough to say something that's really uncomfortable. Of course when you're a candidate's wife and when you're first lady and the first African-American first lady to boot, that is very, very hard to do.” FirstsRealHardEnoughCoursesWifeProgressHonestAfrican AmericanUncomfortableCandidatesBootsFirst Lady Author:Jodi Kantor
“To be honest, I wrote so many drafts of this book [ The Nightingale ] and changed the characters so many times; the real surprise is that I finished the book at all.” BookRealCharacterHonestChangedSurpriseFinishedBeing HonestNightingales Author:Megan Chance
“You make real progress when somebody is honest enough to say something that's really uncomfortable.” RealEnoughProgressHonestUncomfortable Author:Jodi Kantor
“I remember being in West Ham's youth team and seeing Jody Morris play for Chelsea at 17 and you scoring for Liverpool on your debut when you were 18. I was watching it on Soccer Saturday and I was like, "I can't believe he's scored!" It's professional jealousy. It's best to be honest about it. It gave me real desire. I was thinking "God I want that to be me".” ThinkingWantBelieveI CanRealPlayRememberDesireSeeingTeamHonestYouthWestBeing HonestSoccerSaturdayLiverpoolHamChelseaDebutMorrisThinking GodWest Ham Author:Frank Lampard