Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize Bush to take the nation to war. Most of them did so in the belief that the president and his administration were truthful in their statements that Saddam Hussein was a gathering menace.
Actually, Nicole Holofcener’s movies have always felt really right to me. ‘Lovely & Amazing’ is a movie about women’s bodies that I feel is so truthful and painful and real.
I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn’t mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.
Your average director will be content with something that comes across as truthful, but we know, as fellow actors, that that’s not great for a performer. They have to feel that what they’re conveying is honest.
If you want to teach women to be great writers, you should show them the best, and the best was often done by men. It was more often done by men than by women, if we’re going to be truthful.
I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what’s painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
Today we live in a world now where it is easy to confuse truth and popularity. And you can use money to amplify whatever you believe and get people to believe what is popular is now truthful. And what is not popular may not be truthful.
You have to be truthful and believable in whatever you do and that is the founding principle of acting.
So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush’s war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.
To start telling people that you’re beautiful, or just feel beautiful, just start acting like you are the most beautiful woman in the world. And it really improves everything! Because your sort of psyche responds to it – like this is truthful!
I do think I’m country, but your definition of that word might be different from my definition. In my opinion, country music, the sound of country, has always evolved. But the one thing that has not changed is the story element. And I think country songs are truthful songs about life written by country people.
Leaders of organisations, political parties and large businesses frequently fail to talk in a straight and entirely truthful fashion.
Life ain’t a drama. And life isn’t just a comedy. Life is sometimes horrifying. Life is science-fiction. There are all elements and faculties that we navigate, so I just expect a script to reflect that. As long as it’s truthful. I think genre-bending is just being honest.
I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I’m a messenger.
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
I have an almost seven year old… I think it’s essential to be consistent with kids. And truthful, without scaring them. I could go on for hours on this one.
