- Me
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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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
True, He is infinite Majesty, but He is also infinite Goodness and infinite Love. There can be no greater Lord than God; neither can there be a more ardent lover than He.
- Moving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a stickler for structure. So I tend to make sure I'm hitting certain points in the script and that I'm progressing and moving things along. You know, are the characters keeping the plot moving along? And are they true, and do I know their motivations?
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a kind of belief among my students that things that are true are interesting. But most things that are true are not interesting. Four pages describing how I got up and brushed my teeth in the morning would kill you.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about my gender identity that I haven't figured out yet. And that's one of the things I'm hoping to dissect and investigate in this memoir project.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
You've got to go with what feels instinctive and true to your heart, and filter out all of the other stuff.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many philosophers say it's impossible to explain our conscious experience in scientific, biological terms at all. But that's not exactly true. Scientists have explained why we have certain experiences and not others. It's just that they haven't explained the special features of consciousness that philosophers care about.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started researching history in the 1960s, a lot of women about whom I've subsequently written were actually footnotes to history. There was a perception that women weren't important. And it's true. Women were seen historically as far inferior to men.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1965, when I was fourteen, I read my first adult novel; it was a historical novel about Katherine of Aragon, and I could not put it down. When I finished it, I had to find out the true facts behind the story and if people really carried on like that in those days. So I began to read proper history books, and found that they did!
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020