Quotes About Authenticity

If you know somebody very well, like your grandmother or your baby sister, you will know when they are real and when they are fake.

Everyone tells you it's all right to cry, but not enough people say it's all right if you don't want people to know.

But your imaginings would be ersatz, as all imaginings are.

It was confusing pretending to be completely different people, particularly because it had been so long since the Baudelaires were able to be the people they really were.

It was confusing pretending to be completely different people, particularly because it had been so long since the Baudelaires were able to be the people they really were. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny did not think of themselves as the sort of children who hid in the trunks of automobiles, or who wore disguises, or who tried to get jobs at the House of Freaks.

You want friends who choose you, because they find you charming and fascinating, rather than just each and every person who talks through your door.

Just because something is typed—whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book—this does not mean that it is true. The

I'm sure you have heard it said that appearance does not matter so much, and that it is what's on the inside that counts. This is, of course, utter nonsense, because if it were true then people who were good on this inside would never have to comb their hair or take a bath, and the whole world would smell even worse than it already does.

It is very embarrassing to cry when other people can see you, but it is something we all do eventually.

Just because something is typed -- whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book -- this does not mean that it is true.

i want to be friends with people who are honest and interesting, generous but not ridiculous, thoughtful but who don't have irritating voices

I'm sure you have heard it said that appearance does not matter so much, and that it is what's on the inside that counts. This is, of course, utter nonsense, because if it were true then people who were good on the inside would never have to comb their hair or take a bath, and the whole world would smell even worse than it already does. Appearance matters a great deal, because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they present themselves.

As I have said, I prefer a shop which sells one thing to a shop which sells many things, and a supermarket, of course, tries to sell everything, and there is always something distrustful about a place so eager to please.

It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.

None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.

I was stuck in the feeling that one did not--was not justified in being alive unless one was fulfilling other people's dreams, whether they were contractual dreams or the public's dreams, or fulfilling my own dreams and illusions about what I thought I was supposed to be, which, in retrospect, turned out to not be what I am.

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can.

If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.

I'm not gonna change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know, I'm one of those people.

I don't believe in Elvis I don't believe in Zimmerman I don't believe in Beatles. I just believe in me Yoko and me

There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie.

The only honest art form is laughter.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha -- they'll take you away, man. You can't.