Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term.
And since we're all adults here, let's be brutally honest-most babies are not actually attractive. In fact, they're weird and freakish looking. A large percentage of them are squinty-eyed and bald and their faces are all mushed toegther, kind of like Renee Zellweger pushed up against a glass window.
In this cash-rich, time-poor culture of ours, the most precious commodity we have is time. . . volunteering our precious time, is in this brutally self-involved world, the most truly selfless act
I pride myself on being a jerk, because I'm brutally honest all the time.
With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 911 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.
I read Warren Zevon's bizarre biography, "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead. " His wife, Crystal Zevon, posthumously published a journal he wrote and some interviews with ex-band members. Like [Keith] Richards's book "Life," it's brutally honest.
When we speak truth to power we are ignored at best and brutally suppressed at worst
The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.
I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.
Do we have any food that wasn't brutally slaughtered?" Homer: "Well, I think the veal died of loneliness.
Everybody wants to make more movies. You see any movie, and it's just a feat of human strength and perseverance. It is a brutally challenging business.
I was praised in the U. S. and heavily, brutally criticized in France.
Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued. But he was honest enough to admit that he had never yet been made to suffer by cards or by women. One day, and he accepted the fact he would be brought to his knees by love or by luck.
One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.
Some of the things I liked in my years as a student in workshops: the occasional in-class prompt; discussions about what it means to be a writer in the world; professors who are brutally honest and encouraging at the same time (this is a tough one).
Integrity is unity of the personality; it implies being brutally honest with ourselves about our intentionality. Since intentionality is inextricably bound up with the daimonic, this is never an easy, nor always pleasant pursuit. But being willing to admit our daimonic tendencies - to know them consciously and to wisely oversee them - brings with it the invaluable blessing of freedom, vigor, inner strength, and self-acceptance.
If you're serious about improving your play, be brutally honest with yourself.
Be honest, be brutally honest, and if you want something go out there and get it.
Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.
I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.
