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"Showing a real human body and a woman who is looking at her body without shame - that alone is a radical notion. Showing a young woman who is honest about what she is experiencing and letting us into her most intimate, darkest thoughts, all of that is just promoting something that we don't get to see about young women."
"If you're going to do something in your life do it 100%. Don't question it just go after it. If you don't believe in it or you're not honest with yourself it's not going to work and that's just something that I learned over the years."
"[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest."
"Patience has nothing to do with suppression. In fact, it has everything to do with a gentle, honest relationship with yourself."
"I feel like a total hippie right now. I'm passionate about all sorts of things - a lot of boring, cuddly Hallmark things, to be honest."
"The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth."
"Jerry Rice made the decision and we honestly tried to accommodate him the best way we can."
"What made me want to be an actor? Ah, I'm not really sure, to be honest. I was one of those little kids who did it around school, and then I got to university and made lots of bad plays and short films, and then midway through that, it suddenly dawned on me that this might be a satisfying way to earn a living, if that was at all feasible."
"One honest relationship can be more productive than fistfuls of business cards."
"He's an honest politician--he stays bought."
"I believe in the honest craft of workmen."
"I'm honest. It's the world that's awful."
"You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life."
"Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths."
"I'm not in a recession. I'm doing very, very well. I'm doing incredibly well. I just want to be honest. I really am kicking ass."
"To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse."
"Ther's still a few honest folks left but they never seem t' find anything you lose."
"Not all Peter Greenaway's stuff is sequential, narrative story. Some of it is like an art installation and I'm not particularly interested in being in an art installation to be honest. I'm interested in the story."
"If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop."
"Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music."
