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“What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?”

People Hours Music Strange Impulse Boredom Truthful

Book:Under dispute

Source: Under dispute

“I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.”

Trying Mean I Can Real Play Language Enjoy Simple Deals Emotion Complicated Truthful Real Emotion

Author:Anne Stevenson

“Acting a part is not always synonymous with lying; it is far often the best way of serving the truth. It is more truthful to act what we should feel if the community is to be well served rather than behave as we actually do feel in our selfish private feelings.”

Ifs Way Feels Should Wells Feelings Lying Community Acting Selfish Best Way Behave Serving Truthful

Author:Elizabeth Goudge

“I began making pictures because I wanted to record what supports hope: the untranslatable mystery and beauty of the world. Along the way, however, the camera also caught evidence against hope, and I eventually concluded that this, too, belonged in pictures if they were to be truthful and thus useful.”

Ifs World Way Wanted Support Records Mystery Evidence Cameras Caught Truthful Being Truthful Beauty Of The World

Author:Robert Adams

“The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on my second cycle of fame, and I want to make films that smell real and are truthful.”

Want Real Character Action Film Fame Smell Cycles Truthful Believable Action Films

Author:Jean-Claude Van Damme

“The truth... When they have a similar structure to and are organized in as truthful a way as nature. When I look out of the window, then truth for me is the way nature shows itself in its various tones, colours and proportions. That's a truth and has its own correctness. This little slice of nature, and in fact any given piece of nature, represents to me an ongoing challenge, and is a model for my paintings.”

Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

“Children, we can grow spiritually only if we see the guru as the manifestation of God. We should not accept anyone as guru before we are fully convinced personally that he is authentic and truthful. Once we choose someone as guru, we should surrender completely to him. Only then will spiritual development be possible. Devotion to the guru means total surrender to him.”

Ifs Should Mean Children Spiritual Grows Accepting Development Convinced Surrender Devotion Manifestation Truthful Guru Spiritual Development

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies.”

Ifs Looks Seems Truth Lying Turns Sides Half Truthful Half Truth

Author:Mario Vargas Llosa

“In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.”

Ifs World Want Art Helping Shows Artist Social Change Break Society Function Truthful Decay Social Change Being Truthful

Book:The necessity of art: a Marxist approach

Source: The necessity of art: a Marxist approach

“I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.”

People Giving Kind Character Circumstances Variety Links Truthful Portrayal

Author:Mira Sorvino

“I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person's experience.”

People Trying Kind Persons Different Honest Communicate Being Honest Different Kinds Truthful Portrayal

Author:Jennifer Jason Leigh

“I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.”

Thinking Should Actors Starting Truthful

Author:Naveen Andrews

“I've been hounded by a reputation of being difficult when really what I'm being is truthful and honest. And I think that's been a thorn in my side.”

Thinking Difficult Sides Honest Reputation Truthful

Author:Gabrielle Anwar

“I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.”

School Actors Roles Honest Style Particular Training Aim Truthful Methodology Being Truthful Portrayal

Author:Benjamin Bratt

“I want to play roles that I'm proud of, that I feel a certain integrity about, and I want to continue to be truthful in the work that I do.”

Want Feels Play Certain Roles Proud Integrity Truthful Being Truthful

Author:Laz Alonso

“Kids are truthful by nature.”

Kids Truthful

Author:Anna Chlumsky

“I always look for reality. I look for plain truthful roles.”

Looks Reality Roles Truthful

Author:Jim Caviezel

“I have an almost seven year old... I think it's essential to be consistent with kids. And truthful, without scaring them. I could go on for hours on this one.”

Thinking Years Kids Hours Goes On Essentials Seven Consistent Truthful Seven Years

Author:Stephen Collins

“There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.”

Art Made Works Of Art Truthful

Author:Richard Foreman

“With a heart that is truthful, keeping you youthful.”

Inspirational Heart Truthful

Author:Smokey Robinson

“What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.”

Life Strong Truthful Strong Life

Book:The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

Source: The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

“Friendship with the upright, with the truthful and with the well informed is beneficial. Friendship with those who flatter, with those who are meek and who compromise with principles, and with those who talk cleverly is harmful.”

Inspirational Wells Principles Compromise Truthful Beneficial Meek

Author:Confucius

“It's really important that my lyrics are truthful.”

Important Truthful

Author:Lianne La Havas

“I was never a pretty girl, so I wasn't the one to get the boy. I used to cast myself as a good sport. Sometimes I wonder if I do that too much with roles I play, because if I'm absolutely truthful, I quite like being the best friend, or the supporting role, and actually I ought to gear-change and make myself the leading role.”

Ifs Sometimes Play Used Girl Sports Wonder Boys Roles Too Much Ought Casts Being The Best Truthful Gears Pretty Girl Sometimes I Wonder Supporting Roles Good Sports

Author:Celia Imrie

“Here's an easy way to see if a war movie is being truthful: If you see an explosion on a faraway hillside and the sound of the explosion and the detonation of the bomb happen at the same time - if they're putting the sound and the vision together in the same moment - they're going toward our cultural understanding of war, not the reality of war.”

Ifs Way War Moments Reality Happens Together Easy Understanding Sound Vision Bombs Truthful Explosions Easy Way Being Truthful War Movie Reality Of War

Author:Sebastian Junger

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