Quotes About Authenticity

Nature admits no lie.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

Be not the slave of Words.

The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man.

know a Work of Art from a Daub of Artifice)

The Poet who could merely sit on a chair, and compose stanzas, would never make a stanza worth much. He could not sing the Heroic warrior, unless he himself were at least a Heroic warrior too.

What we call pure or impure, is not with her the final question. Not how much chaff is in you; but whether you have any wheat. Pure? I might say to many a man: Yes, you are pure; pure enough; but you are chaff,—insincere hypothesis, hearsay, formality; you never were in contact with the great heart of the Universe at all; you are properly neither pure nor impure; you are nothing, Nature has no business with you.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

A person usually has two reasons for doing something, a good reason and the real reason.

Kendimizi sadece sabit kimlikli nesneler olarak görürsek Olmay? b?rak?r?z. Ve kendimizi nesneler olarak görmenin yollar?ndan biri toplumsal rollerle özde?le?mektir. Bu kimliklenmeye Sartre mauvaise foi, yani kötü inanç der.

I'm not a fashion person. I basically like to wear navy blue, and I don't need a lot of extras.

I've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.

It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.

I've been writing for people long enough to know that it has got to feel comfortable coming out of their mouths, especially when you're doing something that is first person and is so near and dear to you.

A player is someone - a guy - that messes with girls' emotions just to try and get what they want. I've been asked, 'Do you consider yourself a player?' And the answer is no. I don't think I'm anywhere near that.

As a writer, you have to be near people and hear stuff. I'm a hamburger and cheese kind of fellow; I'm not Henry David Thoreau.

I've burned all my bridges for the sake of getting as near as I can to the truth. And after years of searching for the truth, you find that that's all you can bear. The truth and nothing but the truth.

I feel less pressure to dress for the eyes of other people now. I think that happened once I started modelling, near the end of high school.

I would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty.

I arrived at New York, and I went from being Andy Rannells from Nebraska to being Andrew Rannells in New York who was gay. And those were just the facts.

There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm too happy being myself.

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.