Quotes About Authenticity

We ain't dependent on social media to reveal our faith and joy. It shows from inside out, for real.

If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.

I'm going to be me at the end of the day. And I think my family appreciates that. They're happy for me that I'm finding out who I am, and I'm content with that.

The most you can do is stand up for what you believe in. I'm much happier since coming out to my friends and family. Being genuine and honest makes me happy.

We are a very colorful family. Everybody knows our mistakes. But I think that people can relate to all of our mistakes and all or good and bad points.

You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite.

As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.

In my family, I would never dare to think of being Paris Hilton! And to me, that doesn't look like a happy existence - it's just not who I am.

People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

I don't think we should be a model family living in a model home.

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world

Be true to who you are and the family name you bare.

My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.

It is essential that we understand people for who they are as individuals and not the public perception of them or their family and past.

I used to pretend that I was just passing through this family on my way to my real one.

Any person who says their family is perfectly functional is lying.

People think I'm so confident. Close family members can see through that.

I'm surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don't have any problem telling me I'm acting like an idiot or I'm not that funny.

I'm very close to my family. Not like these big stars - not mentioning any names - who lose the plot and don't know who they are.

I don't know if people really know, when you shoot a TV show like you're really family and it really works, it's because it seems real to everybody, even to us. We were all so very close.

As long as I continue to hear "normal" people telling me I am too childish I know I'm doing just fine.

If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.