Quotes About Authenticity

I think the camouflage of fiction allows more authenticity – you know, acknowledging that it is a 'fiction', a terrific lie, and that you want it to be believed.

All true? I think autobiographers are big liars.

There's nothing wrong with making a fake that looks like a Whiteley, feels like a Whiteley, but in fact isn't a Whiteley."

We are a rock 'n' roll band. We always were. We have heavy-metal hair so you can see why so many people put us in there with that. They've got no brains these people who categorise you. They are at these award ceremonies – here is an asshole who is taking your money on false pretences and he's getting the award on the unanimous decision of all those cunts who never buy records and get into gigs free (laughs).

have learned that the quality of the relationships we have with other people makes a tremendous difference to our physical as well as emotional health. Loneliness, I discovered in my research, can kill you faster than cigarettes. And by the same token, intimate relationships that are authentic and life-affirming can have enormous and even miraculous healing powers. In

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

Who are you and what medications aren't you taking?" Finn said.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

Anything that just costs money is cheap.

I frequently recall his sage advice to me at our first meeting: "Don't change who you are now that you've 'arrived.

A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.

People who are not in love may lightly laugh at lovers; and yet true love is a genuine and a noble thing for all that.

Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture—is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character…

hayat?m? ba?ka birinin el yaz?s?ndaki bir karaktermi? gibi ya?ad?m.

Was it possible I did like kids, just not the script written for them?

What we keep finding out again and again is that recipe cooking is to real cooking as painting by number is to real painting: just pretend. The problem is that we don't seem to be able to grasp it. We keep trying—with a different cookbook.

Truth must be spoken however it be taken.

If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.

I never made any friends, even as a kid. Not the kind you can open your heart to." "It's not that hard." "I hope not. Because I'm going to be a different person. I'm going to tell people about the real me. This is the first time I can do it, because it's the first time I've really known myself. And I'm going to love. I'm going to care about people.

I'm going to tell people about the real me. This is the first time I can do it, because it's the first time I've really known myself. And I'm going to love. I'm going to care about people. And it looks like you're it.

Sooner or later everybody demands that I be what they want me to be, and now you're doing it.

I wonder if the truth comes off people like an aura or an odor. You don't have to know them to know them, ya know?

My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career.