- 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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As for my writing process, there is one truth I have discovered after writing some twenty-plus books: Not every book is the same, but the middle of every book is where I really begin to question my choice of vocations. The beginning and end is usually fairly clear to me, but that middle just sucks the life right out of me.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Allegations become facts, and facts become truth in the eyes of the public, whether they are true or not.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will say this about the truth - that it's one of those crisis rules, whether you are a client or someone who's living their life just every day - is that the truth has a funny way of not going away, and telling the truth is extremely important in dealing with any problem or crisis.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, we always show that truth triumphs. We don't leave the movie in the middle saying, 'Great, pick whatever you want to and go out there and do something wrong'. Bollywood is not the only influence in a person's life. They are also affected by their family and friends.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is that the actresses who I look up to are either my age or a few years older or a lot older.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is I've always taken very good care of my skin and always, always worn make-up.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
To stand up on the stage is to say to many people: Look at me. How can you do that without speaking the only truth you know? There is no such thing as an uncommitted actor.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020