Quotes About Authenticity

We are what we pretend to be, but we better be very careful what we pretend.

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

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Cultures are made of continuities and changes, and the identity of a society can survive through these changes. Societies without change aren't authentic; they're just dead

Por más que hayamos progresado, los sentimientos verdaderos de las personas no han cambiado.

They praise these tiny indie bands, but if a band finally gets mainstream success, the same people who praised them attack them for 'selling out.' People often play at being nonconformists to mask their own feelings of not fitting in.

Sometimes a scene may be about one thing, and it may end up still being about that, but the emotionality of it comes from somewhere else, or the humor of it comes from somewhere else, and it gives it that real-life quality.

Prayer is not a place to be good, it is a place to be honest. Prayer is not a place to perform, it is a place to be present. Prayer is not a place to be right, it is a place to be known. Prayer is not a place to prove your worth, it is a place to receive worth and offer yourself in truth.

I like to walk around my apartment naked. I like sitting around in the nude watching sports, actually.

I nodded, not trusting myself to speak. It's always like that. You think you've blown something off and then you say it out loud and suddenly you're all choked up and pathetic.

You would never come here just because you want me to touch you again, although you do. You wouldn't come just because you feel alive when you're with me. You wouldn't come because I'm the only one you can be your true self with. But for work? Yes, for work you'll always come.

I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.

It is always of paramount importance to know that the information we have is not planted, false or a product of deception.

The man who has not lived in the secrecy and intelligence environment—really lived in it and fully experienced it—cannot write accurately about it. There is no substitute for the day to day living of a life in which he tells his best friends and acquaintances, his family and his everyday contacts one story while he lives another.

I warn't never meant to be a lady, I know that now. I got streaks of wildness in me that trip me up every time, and just like streaks in clothes, there's some dirt that just won't wash out.

The serious writer must take serious vows....a vow of silence, except through his work. A vow of consistency, sticking with writing to the exclusion of other fields. A vow of ego-chastity, abstaining from adulation. A vow of self-regard, placing the self as writer before the self as personality.

Be who you want to be, not what they want to see.

People live so much in a world of appearances, that claim lack of character is madness.

What do you do, everyone can do, but what you are, nobody can be.

I cry too much to be butch." The artist deadpanned, raising an eyebrow filled with intimidation at the young woman.

Gabriel was trying to smile, but the expression kept breaking apart. He was looking at her as if he hadn't seen her for years and years of searching, and had just now walked into a room and come upon her unexpectedly. As if he wanted to look at every part of her, now that he could do it honestly.

The dark emotions everyone hid in their depths weren't all of who they really were. They weren't their true selves.

Why not fulfill his nature? Since he could not change it, he might as well revel in it.