The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes behaviors even what we want out of life.
I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.
I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie. You're sitting here watching a movie. And I like that. It appeals to me intellectually and also in a way I can't even explain.
I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach one that writing is hard work and two that you have to give up a great deal of life your personal life to be a writer.
I am not politically correct. I am all about the facts I am all about the truth and I am all about Godly pursuits and what this country was built on and I am not apologetic about it.
People often ask why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.
The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and eager for your approval reports the version that he knows will make you happy.
The genuine truth and I do think about this a lot is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.
All stories should have some honesty and truth in them otherwise you're just playing about.
One is a child when one has a child. No one says 'You will never be the same again.' Which is the truth! And we're all supposed to be happy all the time. What is that about?
Truth is tough. It will not break like a bubble at the touch nay you may kick it about all day like a football and it will be round and full at evening.
In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep serious way.
I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats we will stop telling the truth about them.
Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political I can't do anything about that.
Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe having surveyed a few boxes full of letters diaries bank statements and photographs that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.