Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
Clare Boothe Luce
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One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.
Damon Galgut
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Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.
Bruce Campbell
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Lying is the greatest of all sins.
Alfred Nobel
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I come from a family of Russian immigrant Jews who were all big storytellers, who would get together, and one would try to top the others' stories, and stories would get bigger and bigger. And the lying aspect, the exaggeration, would get large.
Philip Schultz
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I'm either working or I'm lying in bed the entire day.
Petra Collins
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Consumers recognize, and don't like, corporate lying.
Sheldon Whitehouse
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All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Thomas Carlyle
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The Roundhouse was a complete shell. It was absolutely empty, lying derelict for years.
Richard Stanley
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Anyone who says he is an expert in the market is lying to you. There is no such thing.
Mark Cuban
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I'm not lying, every single project I've done, they've all been great.
Ken Jeong
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My teens and 20s were spent lying on sheets of tinfoil in the weak English sun, covered in baby oil. In Greece and France I would burn, then turn a dark brown.
Jane Green
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There are three fundamental poses of the human figure. One is standing. The other is seated, and the third is lying down... Of the three poses, the reclining figure gives the most freedom, compositionally and spatially.
Henry Moore
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I grew up in the age of radio. That was my main boyhood form of entertainment: lying on the living room floor with my ears affixed to the radio. I loved shows like 'The Phantom,' 'Cisco Kid,' and even 'Happy Theater' when I was younger.
George Takei
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I'd be lying to you if I said at 8 I went up to my parents and said, 'Listen, I'm going to become an actor.' That was not the case.
Eugene Simon
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As a writer of fiction, lying is the central thing to all books.
Jesse Ball
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I'm not big on lying. I don't like that at all.
Elizabeth Mitchell
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Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.
John Bercow
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I would imagine that the more time you spend talking to another person, the more you're going to lie to them. So if you spend a lot of time with your relations, you're probably lying a lot to them.
David Chase
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I would be lying if I said it wasn't cool to see myself on the cover of 'Vanity Fair,' right? It's, like, what am I doing there? This is bizarre.
Megyn Kelly
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I'd be lying if I said it wasn't fun to go to these nights out, like the opening of a film or something, but I dip in and out of it.
Billy Boyd
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I want to have my 11 or 12, 13, 14 belt picture. I want to be lying down just covered in them. I want a lot of them. I want my closets to be filled with UFC belts.
Max Holloway
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There's a lot of lying and these are people who are incredibly flawed, and not in very sort of empathetic ways, either. Some of the things they do are pretty awful and some of the things they do to each other are pretty awful.
Will Arnett
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If you commit perjury in a so-called first-degree murder case, and you're caught red-handed for the entire world to see, and you get only a $200 fine, what kind of message does that send about lying in our courts?
Johnnie Cochran
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