Quotes About Authenticity

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

To engage in downright plagiarism is disappointing. It's cynical, opportunistic and hypocritical.

In many senses, creativity and 'plagiarism' are nearly indivisible.

Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.

No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.

Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.

Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

Any time I try to play anything that doesn't come natural, I'm just plain bad.

I would describe myself as a very plain but very honest person.

A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.

No one is a plain white room. I hate going into a home that is done to the nines but has nothing do with the homeowner - no knickknacks, no art that has anything to say about the person who lives there.

When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.

I am a business owner. I'm a teacher. I think Justin's actually kind of plain, kind of nerdy. But when I morph into Alyssa, I'm like this... Well, this creature, everything that Justin couldn't be.

I'm a short, fairly plain person who's bluffing his case and getting away with it.

I ain't flash. I'm just plain old Shaun, the same as I was when I grew up in South London.

Today's culture is based on selling us a lifestyle that does not exist. It is selling us values that are worth nothing. It is plain wrong.

Oh, we don't have a grandiose marketing plan. We sell products that work, that we like.

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.

I don't have a circus around me, and that's a choice. I like to be on Planet Earth as much as possible.

No one on the planet Earth is going to be able to look at me on television and say that I'm a liar. It will not happen.

Nothing I do is thought out or planned or premeditated. It's just that I'm breathing and living! You just have to breathe and live.

It took me a long time, not necessarily to come out, but to understand how I was feeling. It wasn't planned for me to come out with 'First Girl' or anything. I just so happened to have met my current girlfriend on the set.

Acting was never planned.