Quotes About Authenticity

the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!

Sometimes you have to show them what they want to see in order to get them to show you who they really are.

Can't buy what I want because it's free. Can't be what you want because I'm me.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

Story belongs to the people. They are sounder judges of it than anyone else, for their senses are unspoiled and their emotions are free.

I don't want to imitate life in movies I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.

Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.

Well, as I was saying, it costs a lot to be authentic, madam. And one can't be stingy with these things, because you are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed you are. - Agrado from "Todo Sobre Mi Madre

It costs a lot to be authentic. And one can't be stingy with these things because you are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed of being.

In solitude, man is his truth; in society, he tends to be his mere conventionality or falsification.18

Fingimos lo que somos; seamos lo que fingimos.

Any instrument whatever Would be out of tune that sought To combine and blend together The true feelings of the heart With the false words speech expresses.

Cuba may be the only place in the world where you can be yourself and more than yourself at the same time

Somos del mismo gremio. -Los dos somos artistas, papi. Cuando bailaba era igual. Yo con mis bailes eróticos. Era la estrella del Palermo. Nadie sabía si era verdad o mentira. Ni yo misma sabía si lo que bailaba era erotismo real o fingía el erotismo. -Igual que yo con mis novelas. Ni yo mismo sé lo que es cierto y lo que es mentira. -Al final todo es verdad. -Uhmm. -Eres una puta, Pedro. Eres tan puta como yo. Vendes una mentira y finges que es verdad.

As Louis Cozolino Ph. D., observes, a consistent theme of adult psychotherapy clients is that they had parents who were not curious about who they were but, instead, told them who they should be. What Cozolino explains, is that the child creates a "persona" for her parents but doesn't learn to know herself. What happens is that "the authentic self"--the part of us open to feelings, experinces, and intimicy--remains underdeveloped.

your brand follows you wherever you go—be sure it's the you that you intend for everyone to know.

Oddly enough, the more tired you get as you write and rewrite, the more likely you are to abandon any self-conscious semi-stentorian writing and write more like yourself. Fatigue lets you emerge. This is good.)

Style is not a replacement for substance, and cannot camouflage a lack of substance.

How could he try to get Sandi to reveal her true colors when she was a rainbow?

After all, he was human, in spite of rumors to the contrary.

People are attracted to those who fully live life without excuses.

I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.

I have tried to be honest with you, although I suppose that you would really have been more interested in my not being honest. Some of these things happened, and some were dreams. They were all true, as I understood truth. They are all real, as I understood reality.

She felt as if she'd always been holding a part of herself back, saving it, and she had a terrible fear she would end up saving it forever. That she would die with whole parts of herself unused.