Quotes About Authenticity

When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.

Be Yourself Not What The World Wants You To Be

Strangers see you the way you want them to see you. You can't fool friends…that's what makes them friends... Pretty Little Liars

Don't ask me how I am,' I blurt. 'Please.' I want to keep feeling good. Just because the lights are on doesn't mean I have to look.

I don't think about what other people want from me.

People don't want you to be yourself, they just want you to be the person that they've decided you should be.

I have no interest in being a trained ballerina. People should dance how they want to dance. I want to be the funky chicken.

It's weird. People want you to know that they write. They want you to know they're a musician, rather than making music or making stories. It's the strangest thing.

People can look at me any way they want to. If somebody meets me and hangs out with me, they can see what kind person I am. I can't change for people.

Being your self its all a takes if you want to be impressed someone dont be some one else just be your self

I've tried it, and I've never been that girl. I'm always going to be the girl you want to take home to your parents, not for the night.

I do think I might scare some guys, because I'm like, 'I want to change the world! I have dreams! What do you want to do?' But I only know how to be me.

I try not to be protected. Because I feel like you can become a little bit of a robot. That's not who I am. And I don't want to be monotone. It's important to be yourself, whatever the cost.

Don't try to please everyone. There are countless people who don't want one, haven't heard of one or actively hate it. So what?

As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone.

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

But you're human, aren't you? (Kat) I'm human, except when I first wake up in the morning. Even I don't want to be around myself then. (Kish)

The way I would live my life is: never do something in real life that I would not want to write about in my Autobiography.

Provenance is something very important in jewelry. You want to know who has worn a piece of jewelry and who it has belonged to - it's part of its history, part of its aura.

Paris Hilton said something interesting to me once: she said, 'I just tell everyone what they want to hear, and I do what I want to do.'

One of the things I'm most proud of about myself is my ability to fail in front of the world. You have to have that attitude when you want to experiment in art, in music, in writing, or in fashion.

Because I know what it feels like to be used, valued only for what you can do... not who you are, not who you want to be.

I do love being an actress. The other stuff, the 'fame', well - you know what? - you don't actually have to buy into it if you don't want to.

I get offered to do stuff where the money's nice but it's not something I want to do - I get offered a lot of commercials too.