I think a lot of us responded intensely to ‘True Detective’ because it was so incredibly earnest. That’s what made it heartbreaking and involving. – Annalee Newitz
Every human being has an assortment of diverse identities, and it greatly matters which one is triggered by social situations, which hold up different kinds of mirrors. The same is true for nations. – Cass Sunstein
Dreams come true, but then things happen that are beyond anything you could dream. To be in a movie and to be in the same room participating in a movie with Meryl Streep? Come on! – BeBe Winans
Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith? – Caleb Cushing
I was so nervous that this was ‘True Detective’ and that I needed to do a good job that I would just dig into every scene. – Adria Arjona
Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not. – Anna Howard Shaw
Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don’t like folks. – Albert J. Nock
The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller seems to have. This is true even if the teller is a god. – Brendan Myers
The U.S. is by far the biggest exporter of arms in the world. It was true during the Clinton administration, and it’s true during the Bush administration. It’s bipartisan. – Andrew Niccol
In a paper called ‘The Economics of Matching: Stability and Incentives,’ I showed that there were not any mechanisms that would always both produce a stable matching and make it completely safe for all firms and workers to reveal their true preferences. – Alvin E. Roth
Santa is our culture’s only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It’s a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that’s a pity. – Chris Van Allsburg
I’m often accused of being ahead of my time, but it’s simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind. – Brian Eno
The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true. – Bill Nighy
Being in the public eye, I have certainly gone through the tabloid situation where they come out with stories that are not true. I don’t read or pay attention to it. – Cheryl Tiegs
The way people appear in the gossip papers, as they’re depicted as celebrities, it’s not often much like who they are. The more people I meet, the more that’s true. Sometimes, they’re worse. – Casey Affleck
The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality. – Conan O’Brien
Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard. – Benjamin Jowett
That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present. – Annie Besant
They say that theater is the actor’s medium, television is the writer’s medium and film is the director’s medium, and it’s really true. – Charlie Hunnam
To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true… I’ve never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it. – Barry McGuire
