Re Telling Quotes

Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all.

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it.

The definition of a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.

I would not like to have a homogeneous type of film. I wanted to go to many different kinds of ways of making cinema and telling stories and watching the country.

My parents and I always put great emphasis on telling stories that appeal to a child's sense of humor.

This boldness in telling the truth overshadows sport greatly. You couldn't get Joe Frazier or no boxer on this show and get interest in a subject like this. He couldn't talk about it.

Tell the truth as soon as you know it.

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

Somebody ought to have the courage to tell the truth. These people are terrorists.

It's much better to have your arguments dismissed because you might be joking than to have your arguments dismissed because you're not telling the truth.

I'm not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth.

I might do a film someday for the collection. I love designing sets and creating environments, in film school and for my own presentations. I love telling stories.

Truth-telling by a leader can legitimate truth-telling at every level.

I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over.

I stayed in Hamburg a few more days, and during that time I received a visit from Rolf Aldag, the sporting director at T-Mobile. He advised me to tell the truth.

The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

I really like telling stories. When I was a kid, I wanted to write songs. In quite a fundamental, gratifying, childish way, I enjoy the doing of telling a story.

Comedy is not supposed to be funny. Its supposed to tell the truth and then that's funny.

Artists are sometimes in a position to tell the truth, but they're positioned as a Cassandra. They're gifted with impeccable prophecy and the assurance of never being listened to.

I'm driven by telling stories, I love telling stories.

The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.

Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.

When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.

If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

I'm much more into someone who is telling stories than somebody who is writing a record about their breakup. It's just more interesting for me.

Even in traditional filmmaking, you're always trying to find novel ways of telling stories, and this is different.

Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say “tell the truth,” and when you do, they don’t believe you. What’s the point?

I think what makes us human is those choices - whether to tell the truth or not.

The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie.

Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?

I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.

When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,' it encourages others, and it creates a counterresponse.

You can be prosecuted if you tell the truth about Islam.

If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.

Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt himself by telling what is not true.

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.

“In Truth,” I said, “there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.” “How do you win?” he asked. “That,” I said, “is such a boy question.

As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together.

I think the biggest lesson I learned from my Dad was the importance of telling the truth.

I just think, as a species, what we [people] enjoy most is creation and creativity, and telling stories is an extension of expressing all the thoughts and ideas that we have inside of ourselves.

Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. Theyre about telling stories.

I believe in telling the truth.

I insist on the truth. I surround myself with people who tell the truth.

Telling stories, making them come alive is what makes me come alive. So I try to live a life where sharing this vital search of inspiration is a must.

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with

So much of science proceeds by telling stories.

You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them down.

A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.

What I've tried to do in politics is two very simple things: tell the truth and do what I said I would do.