Quotes About Authenticity

Originality is really important.

I did a great deal of research to write 'The Irish Duke.' Since all the people in this Lords of the Realm series are real historical characters, everything had to be authentic. I researched Woburn Abbey, where my heroine lived, and everything about Barons Court in Ireland, which was the ancestral home of Abercorn.

I grew up on Facebook; it's a different realm I live in. For some people, this is inauthentic, but for me, it's all I know.

When you go into the realm of a double role, you have to take it to another level to make it believable.

I love 'Another Round.' It's Heben Nigatu and Tracy Clayton's podcast that's through BuzzFeed, and they're real funny and really themselves. And I like it because it's very funny, but it's outside the realm of comedians talking about comedy.

I feel happy working in the low-budget realm, doing stuff that is a little bit more esoteric, and personal.

I feel like the live record thing is something that I've been getting used to as the years go by and with this being my second one, I'm continuing to learn what works and what doesn't work. A live record is an example of that authenticity and that realness that you find in imperfection and you can hear that in this record.

I'm clown realness!

Listen to realness in my music before you judge me.

I think it need realness, you should speak on thing that you know about, that you being from, that you experienced or that you been around, you know. I think you need a good hook, good beats and good lyrics.

That's one thing I can't lose: I can't lose the realness in my music.

2020 for me is a really big year of realness and authenticity and just being who I am.

The older generation grew up on blow-dried anchors, plastic politicians, and an ocean of pretense. Realness seems unvarnished and unpolished to them.

What I liked about grunge was the realness. It wasn't pretty, it wasn't glamorous.

There's a certain level of realness in Philly. You know, just - people are people. You know, it doesn't matter who you are or who you think you are, you're just a person in Philly.

You can't have friendships that aren't based on realness.

Hollywood is lacking realness in their female characters. I don't think I'm the only one who thinks that and wants to change it.

All my music is autobiographical, and that's the reason why people like my music. They know when I'm saying something on a song, I mean it. It comes from a real place and captures the realness in my life.

You don't have to get doughty or, suddenly, because you have a new label on you, 'Oh, I'm 50, so therefore, I have to be a certain thing.' Follow your heart and look at your rear view as well as your front view!

My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Every actor I know - any reasonable actor I know - is complicated. What you see and what they are, those are two very different things.

Now, although I'm a mimic and I've got a reasonable ear, being a character isn't about an ear. It's about the whole person.

I don't want to be a reasonable facsimile of anyone.