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I try and be truthful. -- Andrea Arnold
First and foremost, you want to be truthful as a storyteller. -- Terence Winter
I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful. -- Sylvester Stallone
I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful. -- Elie Wiesel
I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me. -- Bela Lugosi
Music should be truthful and real, but it should also be healing and uplifting. -- Steve Forbert
A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening. -- Bruce Davison
I look forward to the end of all this money-making part of the career, to be truthful. -- Paul Guilfoyle
You just make yourself available to be full of love. And to be truthful and honest, 100 percent. -- Diogo Morgado
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful. -- Edward R. Murrow
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. -- Willa Cather
I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography. -- Rick Springfield
To be credible we must be truthful. -- Edward R. Murrow
Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! -- Lydia M. Child
There's no point in getting frustrated at yourself. Just be truthful. -- Frederick Lenz
Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made. -- Barbara Stanwyck
I don't think social commentary should be planned, you just have to be truthful. -- Nick Damici
Tagore once said, art has to be beautiful. But before that, it has to be truthful. -- Ritwik Ghatak
Everything is out of your control, and you can only be truthful about how you feel. -- Shailene Woodley
I'm just trying to be truthful and collaborate with people who have interesting things to say. -- Judd Apatow
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty. -- Roald Dahl
All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful. -- Wilfred Owen
I look forward to the end of all this money-making part of the career, to be truthful, -- Paul Guilfoyle
The Buddha taught complete honesty, with the extra instruction that everything a person says should be truthful and helpful. -- Sylvia Boorstein
To be truthful, I think golfers are overpaid. It's unreal, and I have trouble dealing with the guilt sometimes. -- Colin Montgomerie
It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about. -- Henry David Thoreau
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. -- Willa Sibert Cather
To be persuasive we must be believable;to be believable we must be creditable;to be credible we must be truthful. -- Edward R. Murrow
You want me to be truthful.. for your convenience.. but in turn.. you consider to be mendacious for your own convenience.. !! Gr8..!! -- Abhijeet Sawant
In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for truth. -- Michael Leunig
We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion. -- E. W. Howe
To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records. -- Vanilla Ice
The umbrella that I live under is that you must be truthful with everyone except when to do so would injure them or others. -- Rob Lowe
We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism. -- Henry Cisneros
You want to believe in leaders, really believe in leaders. You want what they are saying to be truthful, and you want to trust them. -- Pierce Brosnan
I think it's unnecessary to be mean for the sake of being mean, but I do believe you have to be truthful, but with love. -- Geri Halliwell
One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by others -- Bruce Lee
A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I am honest; I try to be truthful. I like people and wish us well. We are not always deserving of our own best wishes. -- Nikki Giovanni
I once asked Barbara Stanwyck the secret of acting. She said: 'Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made'. -- Fred MacMurray
Every mistake you make allows you to be honest because what's in the dark will come to light, so it's better to be truthful about it. -- Nayvadius Cash
Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that you say to yourself. -- Joe Tye
One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage. -- Emile Chartier
Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality. -- Steve Coogan
I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real. -- James L. Brooks
What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque. -- Corin Nemec
German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry.... Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts "beauty." It tries to be truthful. -- Paul Celan
One of the blessings of maturity is that it sometimes brings one greater courage to be truthful, regardless of what those who do not understand may think or say -- Napoleon Hill
In order to discover truth, we must be truthful ourselves, and must welcome those who point out our errors as heartily as those who approve and confirm our discoveries. -- Max Muller
I want to play roles that I'm proud of, that I feel a certain integrity about, and I want to continue to be truthful in the work that I do. -- Laz Alonso
People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I'm doing and what I'm doing is channeling. -- Morgan Freeman
So just to be truthful to my own sensibility, I need to acknowledge that the season is not all joy and light for a lot of people. It's tough - environmentally, emotionally, spiritually. -- Sting
A lot of people would say, to be truthful is to tell all, every dalliance, every crisis. They might be right on paper, but in practice, it's not a great way to go. -- Adam Carolla
I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful. -- Spike Lee
If I can mean to people - if I can symbolize the ability to pursue gender equality, racial equality, and to be truthful about our experiences, then, absolutely, that's what I want to be. -- Anita Hill
I had to learn to forgive myself, not to judge, but to learn from the past. They showed me how vital it is to accept, be truthful, and love myself. So I could do the same with others. -- Marlo Morgan
The bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of drama is to be truthful. You can be truthful and funny, but if you're not truthful in a drama than the audience leaves you. -- Eddie Izzard
To be truthful i am not entirely sure what people mean when they talk of happiness. There are moments of joy and laughter, the comfort of friendship, but enduring happiness? If it exists i have not found it -- David Gemmell
Even if you know that what you'll say will hurt a woman's feelings, I've learned that it's better to be truthful with her than it is to cover up. Ultimate honesty is what a relationship is really about. -- Stephen Moyer
A lot of the kind of comedy that I do comes out of real human moments. For them to work, they have to be truthful kinds of things that people in the audience can go, "Yes, I've experienced that myself!" -- Brian Regan
I don't believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it's really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase. -- Olivia Thirlby
I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training. -- Benjamin Bratt
In the march towards Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, etc., naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain. A man who is swayed by passions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Tagore once said- art has to be beautiful, but before that, it has to be truthful. Now, what is truth? There is no eternal truth. Every artist has to learn private truth though a painful private process. And that is what he has to convey. -- Ritwik Ghatak
You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent. -- Renny Harlin
No two people will ever see or feel things in the same way, Merry. The challenge is to be truthful when you write. Don't approximate. Don't settle for the easiest combination of words. Go searching instead for those that explain exactly what you think. What you feel. -- Kate Morton
I believe politicians should aim to be accurate and truthful in what they say at all times. You can be truthful and inaccurate but what you shouldn't be doing at any time is saying things that are untrue or making commitments that you have no intention of honouring. -- Malcolm Turnbull
I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing. -- Eddie Izzard
All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You've got to be truthful. I don't think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you've got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it. -- Howard Schultz
I feel like you can't really be truthful as an artist and empathize with the human experience, unless you know your truth and you're not living a lie. So I'm learning through it, and it's making me a better person, and it's making me a better artist, I think. -- Diane Guerrero
Be truthful, nature only sides with truth. -- Adolf Loos
I can be glib and truthful all at once. -- Richard Russo
So long as you do it truthfully, music is not to be judged. -- A. R. Rahman
Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk. -- E. W. Howe
I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful. -- Naveen Andrews
I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances. -- Lasse Hallstrom
We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next. -- Laura Innes
It's important to be honest and truthful with your constituents. At the end of the day, we represent them. -- Devin Nunes
Positive, truthful and helping people always get rewards. Oneness, love, compassion and enlightenment can be attained by following the spiritual laws of the universe." -Hina Hashmi -- Hina Hashmi
Me truthful... you mendacious.. !! -- Abhijeet Sawant
I'm drunk but truthful. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I'm drunk but truthful. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Kids are truthful by nature. -- Anna Chlumsky
Everything I say is 95% truthful. -- Si Robertson
Be truthful, gentle, and fearless. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Be dignified, honest and truthful. -- Umar
TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate. -- Ambrose Bierce
Be bold, free, and truthful. -- Brenda Ueland
I am not cruel, only truthful. -- Sylvia Plath
Being truthful is the new beautiful -- Suzy Kassem
All of my stories are 95 percent truthful. -- Si Robertson
The truthful man is usually a liar. -- Alfred Nobel
Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth. -- Adolf Loos
Humility is all about being truthful and honest. -- Radhanath Swami
It's really important that my lyrics are truthful. -- Lianne La Havas
You can't live a truthful life without regret. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
All men are born truthful and die liars. -- Luc de Clapiers
Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful. -- Brenda Ueland
Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely -- Publilius Syrus
With a heart that is truthful, keeping you youthful. -- Smokey Robinson
There's no right or wrong just truthful or untruthful. -- Robert Duvall
Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful. -- Robert A. Heinlein
I like showing the gritty truthful dark side of humanity. -- Jake Busey
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper. -- Thomas Jefferson
Knowledge is truthful only if itâ??s based in morality. -- Andrei Tarkovsky
The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance. -- Charlie Chaplin
We need a radically truthful way to acknowledge reproductive freedom. -- Ani DiFranco
I only believe in telling the truth and being truthful. -- Vinnie Tortorich
Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro. -- Billy Crystal
A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful. -- Sally Phillips
Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting. -- Virginia Woolf
When you have something truthful to say, it will design itself. -- Bob Gill
Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living. -- Guru Nanak
Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters. -- Henry Theodore Tuckerman
The way to my heart is by being truthful and spontaneous. -- Michelle Trachtenberg
I always look for reality. I look for plain truthful roles. -- Jim Caviezel

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