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Usually, people write the characters into a box, and that's just not true to life. -- Thomas Ian Nicholas
It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life. -- Max Frisch
If you want to be true to life, start lying about it -- John Fowles
Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it. -- Paul Tillich
The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures. -- Salvador Dali
Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life. -- Joe Namath
Often women are pitted against each other for an easy joke, so they fight or steal each other's boyfriends. That's not really true to life. -- Hannah Simone
Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it. -- James Joyce
To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved. The novelist must not impose an ending upon them. -- Joyce Carol Oates
All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true. -- David Cronenberg
It's all about creating a back story for the character and developing emotional responses that are true to life in relation to the character. It isn't necessary to live a tragic life to create from that place. -- Corin Nemec
War stories deal in death. War illuminates love, while love is the greatest expression of hope, without which any story rings untrue to life. And to deny hope in a story about such darkness is to create false art. -- Richard Flanagan
The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life. -- Wallace Stevens
The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is considered true to life whichdoes not include at least two hypochondriacs, one sadist, and one old man who spills food down the front of his vest. -- Robert Benchley
I like playing characters that are true to life, and there's no guarantee that any of us are going to be okay, but we intend to be, and we take the time to try to be. I don't think it's any different for a character. -- Mehcad Brooks
But may the truth be told. May the true self may be found. May the truth rule the world more than ever. How easy life will be if everyone is just true to themselves, true to their words, true to their actions and true to life? -- Diana Rose Morcilla
I think it's more honest, true to life, to write about serious matters. And also not to do something that's gentle. I like to put, ideally, belly laughs on one side, and really serious moments on the other. So they kind of come up against each other. -- Guy Jenkin
I write about life as it exists within houses and on the streets. And there's nothing, hopefully, in any of my characterizations or in any of my plottings or in any of my valuations that doesn't ring true to life. I'm a novelist. I'm not a theoretician. -- Richard Grossman
I tend to play more true-to-life characters in real situations. -- Mekhi Phifer
Life is true to form; records are meant to be broken. -- Mark Spitz
True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt. -- Garth Brooks
The life purpose of the true social entrepreneur is to change the world. -- Bill Drayton
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. -- Buddha
When you lay your life out there, you want it to be as true as possible. -- Jim Morris
I love Frank Ocean. We're going to get married. In true life, we should get married. -- Alex Newell
You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker. -- Richard Roeper
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself. -- Henry Miller
No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses. -- Margaret Cavendish
The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you. -- Thomas Wolfe
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. -- George Eliot
A lot of people go through life thinking that they don't have any control, that life is just happening to them. But that's not true. -- Jason Silva
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. -- Bertrand Russell
It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom. -- Bryant H. McGill
True virtue is life under the direction of reason. -- Baruch Spinoza
True life is elsewhere -- Arthur Rimbaud
I write about true-life type things. -- Karen Kingsbury
Life's true face is the skull. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
Hollywood life is never true. Ever. -- Selena Gomez
Our true mentor in life is science. -- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Every life has one true love snapshot. -- Mitch Albom
True wealth: a life rich in experience. -- Marty Rubin
Whoever lives true life, will love true love. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Preservation of life is the only true joy. -- Albert Schweitzer
You can't lead a true life without suffering -- Mahatma Gandhi
True life is lived when tiny changes occur. -- Leo Tolstoy
Science is the only true guide in life. -- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
True life lies in laughter, love and work. -- Elbert Hubbard
Love is the true condition of human life. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Intuition is the only true guide in life. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
The true object of human life is play. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Prayer is the very life-breath of true Christianity. -- J. C. Ryle
Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
There is no true life within a false life. -- Theodor Adorno
traveling is the great true love of my life -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking. -- Aristotle
Your fashion should reflect your true passion for life. -- Debasish Mridha
The experiences of life must be transformed into true comprehension... -- Samael Aun Weor
Our real power in life comes from our true thinking! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
All pain in life comes from suppressing your true identity. -- Bryant McGill
Perseverance is the true beginning of a life of victory. -- Edmond Mbiaka
It is true, I thought. I am living a life. -- Patrick deWitt
The true measure of life is not length, but honesty. -- John Lyly
Life is fullest when we are most true to ourselves. -- Gay Hendricks
Life is a game and true love is a trophy. -- Rufus Wainwright
Life is true to form, records are meant to be broken -- Mark Spitz
The True Measure Of Success is determined by your home life. -- Dan Black
It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood. -- Vera Farmiga
True fashion should reflect deeper feelings of inner passion for life. -- Debasish Mridha
The true guide of life is to do what is right. -- Winston Churchill
Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life. -- Don DeLillo
Death is just the door through which we experience true Life. -- Todd Stocker
True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death. -- Solon
O fresh-lit dawn! immortal life! O Earth's betrothal, sweet and true! -- Edmund Clarence Stedman
True, life is complex. But so are a great many accidents. -- Foz Meadows
In writing, as in life, always be true to your character. -- Laurie Faria Stolarz
To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life. -- Sri Chinmoy
The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. -- Yann Martel
True contemplation is reflecting on the blessings of God in your life. -- Harold Klemp
It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny -- Paulo Coelho
Football gives the African people hope, a true motivation for their life. -- Marcel Desailly
True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess. -- Louis Nizer
EVERYTHING in your life you have attracted .. accept that fact .. it's true. -- Rhonda Byrne
We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. -- George Orwell
A true life is at once interpreter and proof of the gospel. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life. -- Joseph Campbell
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. -- Paulo Coelho
Mukesh calls me his true life partner... I just enjoy being Mukesh's wife. -- Nita Ambani
Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life. -- Brenda Ueland
Nothing in this life will bring true meaning and happiness apart from God. -- Jim George
Small, deliberate actions inspired by your true desires create a life you love. -- Danielle LaPorte
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. -- Aristotle
Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life. -- Henry Ward Beecher
That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself. -- D. H. Lawrence
True consecration to Christ simplifies life, for it leaves the management to Him. -- J. Sidlow Baxter
For the true student, everything that happens in daily life is a test. -- Karlfried Graf Durckheim
What prepares you for the true path of God? The experiences of life. -- Harold Klemp
True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious. -- Mahatma Gandhi
At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true. -- Agatha Christie
The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration -- J. I. Packer
Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life. -- Cesar Chavez
Life is all about being true to yourself and what you believe in -- Andy Biersack
Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story -- Ashleigh Brilliant
What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world. -- Arthur Rimbaud
Every dream I've ever had in life has come true ten times over. -- Steve Wozniak
It's true: Every time you kill an elk, you're saving some cow's life. -- Edward Abbey
Live your life in your own unique way and be true to yourself -- Josei Toda
You know, I've virtually never been chatted up in my life, it's true. -- Elizabeth Hurley
Never in LIfe will you disappoint yourself if you stay true to you! -- Nicety
There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life. -- Cato the Elder
I love to be with my twins. They are my true joy in life. -- Nancy Grace
Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected. -- Sogyal Rinpoche
You are perfectly entitled to invent your life and to claim that it's true. -- James Salter
Love is the passion of Life that marks the journey to our true destination. -- Tom Hackett
And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Blessed be the true life that the pauses between its throbs are not death! -- George MacDonald
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True worship, worship that is pleasing to God, radiates throughout a person's entire life. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer

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