- Nov 07, 2020
Truth Quotes
Truth, examined from a few angles.
This set opens with the idea that a story's meaning ultimately depends on the relationship between reader, writer, and character, before turning to a pointed geopolitical observation about oil and foreign intervention. For more grounded reflections, see Heart.
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- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
My thing is, I'm just way too harsh. It's an enormous impediment, and that's just the truth of it. It doesn't make me any better, make me any worse, it certainly isn't more valorous. I have a character defect, man.
- Emotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to give each performance my own soul, to bring a truth to my character. Hopefully, when I bring that much truth to a character, it resonates with somebody, and it sparks some kind of emotion in them.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. The stylings of my words are immodest, but it's the truth.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.
- Emotional Truth
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it; most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should not be afraid to speak the truth to our powerful friend the United States.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020