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"For film, you know, the Tarantinos and Nolans of the world who are very focused on a certain kind of film aesthetic and a certain kind of presentation, to be honest, that comes from a place of privilege. It comes from a place of always having access to such, but when you ain't never - you can't see it because you can't even get to it."
"The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God."
"My friends were poor, but honest, so's my love."
"Though it be honest, it is never good to bring bad news."
"Plain and not honest is too harsh a style."
"Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire."
"Surround yourself with a really good group of friends that are true and honest and won't lead you astray and make you compromise who you are as a woman or a young woman."
"Being honest doesn't mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true."
"I would say she [Barbara Stanwyck] did her job as best she could; an honest day's work for an honest day's pay - and when it was over, it was over."
"Don't ever regret being honest. Period."
"I don't try to stop myself from becoming too personal. I just put it all out there. If anything, I try to remind myself to be as honest as possible all the time. Why hold back?"
"The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good."
"I think that what happens so often on screen is high-stake moments tends to look too pretty. And I just don't think it's honest."
"You have to be honest about who you are."
"I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest."
"I create my own backstory regardless of if I'm told something about the background or not. There's always more that you can develop in your head that makes a character more layered, more honest."
"Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them."
"Cant you understand that romanticism is no more an enemy of science than mysticism is? In fact, romanticism and science are good for each other. The scientist keeps the romantic honest and the romantic keeps the scientist human."
"The scientist keeps the romantic honest, and the romantic keeps the scientist human."
"Honestly, I didn't know I was a role model."
