Brit Marling Quotes
We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.
-
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-
My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.
-
I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.
-
My only real advice to Oscar nominees is, 'If you haven't actually seen a competitor's film, don't fib and say you have and blow smoke up their wahooziewhatsits.' Always best to be frank and tell them the truth.
-
Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.
-
Songwriters tell the truth.
-
Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
-
The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.
-
I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.
-
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
-
I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath. They want to put me in prison but that won't help. My voice will be heard even louder from prison than now, and the whole world will hear me.
-
Obviously any band, any group, someday is not going to be together anymore. That's the truth.
-
Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.
-
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
-
All truth is not to be told at all times.
-
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
-
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
-
The booby father craves a booby son,And by Heaven’s blessing thinks himself undone.
-
Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees!
-
Yeah, I think if I were to go again, I'd try to go more on gut feelings and stick with it. I was on to Frederique. I found clues for everything, I found tons of stuff.
-
We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.
