- Knowing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lie Quotes
On truth, dishonesty, and pressing forward despite the risk.
One quote frames the camera as an all-seeing judge of truth, arguing that any performer has to genuinely believe what they're saying on screen. See also Believe quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Flatters
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- Nov 07, 2020
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm quite a restless holidaymaker - I can't lie down on the sand and don't like too much heat.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without the compassionate understanding of the fear and trepidation that lie behind courageous speech, we are bound only to our arrogance.
- Disclosure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find writing extraordinarily difficult and not very pleasurable, though I find having done it very pleasurable. I won't lie about that.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My epiphany came in that police cell: I realised I was about to lose everything and it didn't bother me, not in the slightest. I'd come to hate cycling because I blamed it for the lie I was living.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020