Quotes About Authenticity

Le persone non cambiano, fanno solo momentanei passi fuori dal loro vero carattere, isolate azioni contrarie alla loro vera natura.

Life connects us, Benjamin, not artifice.

I hated what I had drawn in that sketchbook. I should not have done it. Why had he asked me to do it? I hated the drawings. They were lies, stagnant creations done to someone else's demand, and I despised them.

Most of us can't accept that the gig is ours, so we lurk around, we tug and scratch at ourselves as if in borrowed skins, and never fully belong to the moments that can steadily add up to nothing a lot quicker than you think.

I never set out to be a one-night-stand kinda woman. I want to be sure, if I have sex with you, that it's because you want to be around for a while and because you like me for who I am, not what I am. Maybe a million women had made approximately the same speech. I meant it as sincerely as any one of those million.

I said the first thing that came into my head unfortunately. Save the drama for your mama I told her just like an eleven-year-old.

Those words are not a magical formula. They're not going to open my heart to you.

My bullshit metre is reading that as false'.

Nunca fui uma mulher de relações de uma noite só. Quero ter a certeza, se dormir contigo, de que o faço porque queres passar algum tempo comigo e porque gostas de mim por quem eu sou e não pelo que sou.

It had never made any difference to me what people called me, as long as I knew who I was.

It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.

People like seeing people being human and real, and I think that's been lacking on TV.

Our filmmakers need to be true to their culture to gain appreciation at international level. Though I don't wish to generalize but do I feel that Indianness is lacking in most Indian films these days.

What made Strapping Young Lad important, at least to me, was I was being honest about whatever was important to me at that time. In many ways, that musical process is there to resolve those issues, if you will.

I haven't changed, I'm still the same lad who lives at home with my mam, brother and sister.

The reason Strapping Young Lad was such a good band was we were honest about what we were doing.

We're not just 'ladies in rock.' We're weird people!

If a man loves me, he will love all the flaws that come with me, so ladies don't beat yourself up about them.

I don't feel like a first lady.

I decided to be this bearded lady in 2011.

I'm never going to look like a Nordic model, so I play with what I've got. Instead of going gray, I dye my hair bright colors; I have bad vision, so I wear sparkly glasses. I embrace that I look like a crazy lady.

You men make up these rules, and now you get mad because I'm telling you what a real woman wants. She wants you to treat her like a lady if you want her to sit up there and put on all the lingerie!

A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.

The jig is up: I'm not a nice lady.