Quotes About Authenticity

I want to be able to go on a date, hang with all of my friends, and not be outed on someone else's terms by some reporter.

Those media reporters who know me well and my friends know what my real personality is. Those who read newspapers and watch TV don't know what my real personality is.

I always tell people, I never get writer's block because it's coming straight from my brain, like, real-life experiences. I'm like the news. I'm just reporting it for myself.

I'm comfortable with my femininity, and I don't try to change what I look like just because I'm reporting on football at the end of the night.

I'm sometimes embarrassed by how clinical I can become when I'm out reporting.

But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.

Initial reports are encouraging. In the end of the day, it's going to be deeds, not words, that matter.

Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the law presumes to be genuine, and devolves on the opposing party the burden of proving it to be otherwise.

I don't try to represent myself in a way that's not connected with my everyday reality, because I'm not smart enough to do that.

I do not represent any product or any collection.

I used to get in trouble with my old agent, because I've never been driven by fear or need or greed. I want my work to represent me as a person, so I can be quite fussy.

I want my brand and Bibi Bourelly to represent honesty.

It is important for me that I represent a brand that reflects my personality.

I want to be able to work on a project that will give people around the world the chance to represent their own people, their own culture, their own stories, rather than just Hollywood - really, you know, dominated Hollywood. And that's a dream of mine.

As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last.

I am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be.

I'd rather sell 10,000 records that represent me than 2 million that don't represent me at all.

I know what my sound is. I'm just trying to get it out there how I can explain it. I'm not trying to write or put out some music that doesn't represent me.

I don't like being approached by people who look at me too intensely, who needed something from me that I didn't have. I don't represent anything.

I don't leave the house without thinking of how to represent myself.

If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.

You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.

I'm not totally blind to the fact that I like people to see my work, but if it's not something I would enjoy seeing in a magazine, then I think I shouldn't be making it. I think that I don't represent only myself, I represent more people; I mean, if I like it, then I think more people will like it because I think I'm quite a normal guy.

I feel like I represent normalcy in some way.