Quotes About Authenticity

I'm not trying to obey the rules of radio.

When you're the object of everyone's affection, make no mistake about it: you are an object. People don't have any interest in loving you for you. Their love for you is for who they think you are.

As an artist in this day and age with social media, you feel more like an object than you do a human.

We have a double agenda of trying to deliver something exciting that people will talk about and will brighten their day and will amaze people and make us proud to have created an object of beauty. And on the other hand being true to the story.

What my whole object was is not to really sell records. I was trying to sell songs.

Real luxury is a balance between quality and the affection you feel for an object that cannot be easily replicated.

I spent the majority of my adult life in a business where the object is to make people believe that you believe what you say. I was good at that, right?

My objective is not to play for money, as I just want to leave good memories. That is the most important thing!

I think being completely authentic about the time you live in is something that I would view as a career-long objective - to find out what is authentically this moment.

I'm objective because I tell the truth.

I think I should be objective, call 'em as I see 'em. Stay the Tooz.

There's a lot of shiny, pretty objects out there that when you actually touch them, they just fall apart. And it's like, you need to be authentic, you need to be yourself.

I used to feel an obligation to invent things. I felt I was a failure because I didn't do massive great novels about Australia or the outback or something. I just don't feel that any more.

When writing about historical characters I try to be as accurate as possible, and in particular not to misrepresent the view they held. With a real historical figure you have to be fair, and this is not an obligation you have in dealing with your own creations, so it is quite different.

I think most actors feel an obligation to do right by the people they're playing.

As a journalist - or as a writer - my obligation is to come as close to the truth as I possibly can. And that's not as close to someone else's truth, but the truth as I see it.

I'm lucky enough that financially I don't have to feel obliged to go for the bigger stuff. I like the stories and scripts to dictate if I want to do them.

I know the first time I see a 'Goddess Mode' cosplayer I'm going to cry in such a loud, obnoxious way that it'll be audible from space.

I would often get called in to play a very loud, obnoxious - which, truth be told, I can be loud and obnoxious. My issue was when it was like a ghetto girl; I didn't think I was good at it; I didn't feel authentic. And so I had insecurities about going in on it.

With each thing that you do, all the fears in life and safeguards block out, or obscure, who you truly are. I think that just a glimpse of the person ever comes through in most material.

You will do things in private and sing in private and make choices in private that you wouldn't make if you were observed.

For much of my career I had no authentic political voice. I had been campaigning all over the country not to change the world or shake up my audiences but to please the roomful of people to whom I was speaking... As a result, my words rarely had the ring of truth to the nonpolitical observer.

RevitaLash. Beyond obsessed. We don't use fake lashes anymore for me at work... they are SO long!

I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.