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- 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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- Hug
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Just because everybody else is engaged in a group hug with Barack Obama doesn't mean that somebody doesn't have to tell the truth.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, you're trying to - be it on theatre or on the camera - tell the truth and be honest in the moment.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A search for truth seems to me to be full of pitfalls. We all have different understandings of what truth is, and we'll each believe - or we are in danger of each believing - that our truth is the one and only absolute truth, which is why I say it's full of pitfalls.
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The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.
- Sensual
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But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.
- Magic
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When we really start searching for the truth in stories, we can find it everywhere, not just in sincere confessions but in the deliberate lies and imagined possibilities, the magic and fantasy, and all the other unreal elements that go into the concoction of identity.
- Heart
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Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of fiction. It's been at the heart of fiction from the start. Fiction offers both truth, and we know it's a flat-out lie. Sometimes it drives a novelist mad. Sometimes it energizes us.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of young women ask me, 'Can you go into politics and maintain your ideals?' Well, I think you can. You might not, in any one interview, tell the whole truth, but to deliberately deceive the public who've elected you is totally unacceptable.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
And the truth is I've always taken very good care of my skin, and always, always worn make-up.
- People
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When you are living your truth, you will meet people who love you for that truth.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020