#lying

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. ↗

— Henry Adams

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I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished. ↗

— Willem Dafoe

#christ #could #dirty #down #fun

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. ↗

— Woody Allen

#down #dying #easily #few #few things

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down . ↗

— Woody Allen

#done #down #easily #few #few things

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies. ↗

— Mel Gibson

#art #elaborate #i #lies #like

The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people. ↗

— Elijah Wood

#ever #i #keeping #kind #lying

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#astronaut #attractions #being #completely #flying

We took up the offer with the BBC, and that was Monty Python's Flying Circus. I didn't have to submit my ideas to the group. I used to turn up on the days we recorded with a can of film under my arm, and in it went. ↗

— Terry Gilliam

#bbc #circus #days #film #flying

Everything has changed. The flying changed. The airports have changed. ↗

— Eydie Gorme

#everything #flying

There's hostility to lying, and there should be. ↗

— Bob Woodward

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