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Hollywood has had a very limited way of telling stories about black people.
And Hackman had really choked up when he was telling it. It was very moving.
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.
My mother was a very hard-working maid, and their stories are worth telling.
You had no mask, and the coach kept telling you, 'Use your head.' And I did.
My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.
I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.
I've sort of always been obsessed with telling stories and making things up.
I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.
I'm not telling anyone, 'Quit your job and be homeless to go for your dream.'
When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.
This is me telling the truth. It just so happens to be a very explosive truth.
I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.
In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
The child asks, 'Why don't I have this happiness thing you're telling me about?'
For me, the act of telling the story and showing it to somebody is almost gravy.
One of the most telling things about a person is how they say hello, handshakes.
When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories.
When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.
Drag a $100 bill through a trailer camp and there's no telling what you will find.
I have people telling me what I can and can't do, what music I can and can't make.
Everyone is telling the truth all of the time... well, it's just that times change.
Sometimes you don't find out why you needed to tell a story until you're telling it.
I love telling the stories that we tell. I love playing the characters that we play.
Nothing is worse than a Yankee telling a Southerner that his monuments don't matter.
The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy.
When I started Samhain, I remember a producer telling me that I had a real band now.
My stylist and agency staff are the ones that do a good job telling me what to wear.
I love telling stories. But I believe that nobody could teach you to direct a movie.
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
You know what, I remember being on my T-ball team and telling people about 'Platoon.'
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
So what comes naturally to me is writing lyrics and writing songs and telling stories.
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
I was telling people like 'My Dawg' gon' be the song that get me out there. I knew it.
I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.
Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
People are consistently telling me how much they like my wife. That's my cross to bear.
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
I get tons of messages every day telling me, 'Your music has provided me with answers.'
You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad.