- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
True Quotes
Staying true, on screen and off.
These quotes circle around authenticity, from admitting to being a slow starter in a creative field to insisting that people stay true to what they actually believe. For similarly reflective quotes on personal conviction, see Dream quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political speech is indispensable to decision-making in a democracy, and this is no less true because the speech comes from a corporation rather than an individual.
- Vegan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a true vegan.
- Life Is Short
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is short, and there's something to be said for being true to yourself.
- Photograph
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- Nov 07, 2020
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
- Chaos
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- Nov 07, 2020
I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump's blatant racism and demonization of Muslims, Mexicans, and immigrants also serves as a foil for white evangelicals. By othering these groups, Trump allows evangelicals to persist in their belief that white Anglo-saxon Protestantism is the default for true American Christianity and is best suited to lead America as a 'Christian Nation.'
- Graham
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moment of true capitulation came when the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association quietly took Mormonism off the list of apostate religious groups.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
True conservatives fear anything that is at odds with the status quo, even to the extent of being unable to recognise when the status quo represents injustice. And reactionary conservatives actually want to tear down the gains of the past.
- Certain Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that Area 51 was this test facility working to move science and technology faster and further than any other nation is true and is one of the great hallmarks of Area 51. There are other areas of the base that are controversial - but they both exist simultaneously - out there in the desert.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020