Angie Harmon Quotes

I've come to realize that people connect more when they know you're telling them the truth or some aspect of your story, some mutated version of how you are experiencing this life.

Radical transparency is critical to having an idea meritocracy because it shows what's actually happening without spin and prevents people from maneuvering politically behind each others' backs. It brings problems and weaknesses to the surface and allows people to see how they are dealt with, so it's great for training people on how to deal with real problems.

I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.

I never believed the anchorman should be the know-it-all. And I try to communicate that to the audience. While I have some knowledge from my years of experience, what I want to do is walk you through this because we're all walking through this together.

The best stories come out of the truth.

You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.

I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.

It's the writers' job to make it positive. It's my job to make it real.

We don't typically use music. We don't manipulate our audience into what we think it should feel. We tell the truth. That's 'Southland' Style'... and I love it!

You can't just keep telling a story the same way over and over again. And I think it only helps the world to be more honest with young kids, to show them the world that they go walk outside and see.

One thing about America is Americans are real people. So it's like, if they see that you're real, this is real, then they're gonna relate to it.

Why do a reality show if you're going to be fake?

When I look at material, I get excited by things that are telling the truth because that's what you want to do: tell somebody else's truth.

Especially with Instagram, I feel reluctant to make all the photos beautiful because I don't necessarily want to send this message that life is perfect and your avocado toast is always going to be beautifully lit. I want readers to feel like the Man Repeller page is real and kind of dirty. Messy.

Bands have good nights, and they have bad nights. I'm not going to cover up anything or pretend. For me, personally, that's just my thought process.

It's not about making it perfect, it's about letting it be real, sometimes raw and flawed, as long as it's true.

I like being able to just put everything out on the table and letting the cream float.

I've always been really open onstage.

People like a bit of honesty in films.

I want to remove the curtain of pretence from all of my characters.

I'm a big fan of not letting the audience of off the hook, as they say. I like it when things feel real, and that's oftentimes not comfortable.

The biggest thing I worry about is the unsubstantiated story. You have to tell the people what you know -- and acknowledge what you don't know.

People generally like happy endings, which is something I learned from my years in advertising. I like happy endings myself, but only if they're honest. I'm just as happy with a terrible, hopeless ending.

Being honest about where you come from and what your story is is the only way to connect to other people, to really connect with them.

Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.