Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true. – Lafcadio Hearn
On a book like ‘X-Men,’ you have to stay true to the established fiction, working with editors to ensure continuity, sometimes across multiple titles. – Joe Madureira
In business, we say that people overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a decade. This is true in philanthropy as well. – Marc Benioff
I thought that, post-apartheid, there would be absolutely no interest in South Africa. That has been both true and untrue. The major writers like Gordimer and Coetzee have produced major books. But some of the more minor writers have drifted away. – Justin Cartwright
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true. – Marcel Proust
In Canada, you can’t even have a barbecue in your backyard without being attacked by a moose or even a grizzly bear. Then again, the grizzlies don’t beat anyone here in Vancouver; oh, it’s true, it’s true. – Kurt Angle
When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it’s always worth taking a careful second look. – Malcolm Turnbull
The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If you’re not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, you’re kind of stuck. – Lyle Lovett
We’ve advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America… What’s needed now is less rhetoric and more action. – Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
It’s true, I used to be so shy. I used to never talk, just sit back and do my thing. I was never bullied, though, and it was never like it was something that needed to be ‘fixed’, like being shy is a bad thing. – Kendall Jenner
I was at Target the day after my kinda debut on ‘True Blood,’ and I got recognized right away. I was very surprised. It caught me off-guard. – Lindsay Pulsipher
Marriage can be a magnificent lesson in becoming our best selves; that is true. – Marianne Williamson
Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So – and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration. – Jane Mayer
For your first musical in New York, to go to Broadway and be nominated for a Tony is a dream come true. – Jason Moore
If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. – Katherine Mansfield
It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people. – John Bright
A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us. – Ludwig van Beethoven
Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true! – Logan Pearsall Smith
When you go into projects, you can’t look at it as limited; you have to dive into it wholeheartedly to be true to the writer’s vision. – Jolene Purdy
Bling is passe, and I like my style to reflect just that. Ruthless editing defines true style perfectly. – Leila Janah
