The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.
Lyrics are kind of the whole thing; it's the message. Something might have a beautiful melody but if it's not the truth coming out of your mouth, it's not appealing.
We're all living in a casino. It's just Vegas. Everything is on camera. Everything is being recorded. Everything is on audio. The truth is we all have access to everybody else's information.
We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.
The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.
You'll very rarely find that you can enhance a performance to give it a real emotional centre and truth... after the fact.
The way I navigate scenes is through what I perceive to be the emotional truth of the character: what he wants from moment to moment.
Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it.
I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.
I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.
Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining.
I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living.
Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.
All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older.
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
American Idol' is a $900 million-a-year corporation. When you are dealing with that, you can't come off with lies - it's either the truth or nothing.
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
I look at scripts really for whether they can be moving or penetrate some kind of truth. You are constantly chasing that feeling as an actor when every part of a production comes together.
Most people do surprisingly poorly when dealing with a relative who is hurting, depressed, or anxious - we get defensive and try to solve the problem rather than finding the truth in what the person is saying.
Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.
