Quotes About Authenticity

I'm really excited for people to be able to see what else I can do besides high heels and magic powers.

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.

I want to make sure people know I don't think I have any magic powers. I just have a story that I share.

A lot of people say writers start losing their powers after 60 or 65. But I look at the best-seller list and see a book by that 14-year-old gymnast, Dominique Moceanu, and I think, 'Now, what's she going to tell the world? And these 25-year-old rock stars, what are they going to tell the world?'

I do care a lot about what I wear, but in a way that is about comfort and practicality, and I always want to look like me.

Lighting practically whenever I can when shooting period really helps with authenticity.

I made records for 20 years, I lived off it. But people would say I made so many mistakes, I did so many things you're not supposed to do. I had a band name nobody could say. I didn't play live. I never practiced, I never got better at my instrument.

Remain true to yourself while practicing this business of being an actor. And it is a business.

I try to keep it really real on my social media, whether it's me training or working out, whether it's me practicing or failing at something.

False praise is worse than no praise.

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

The highest praise is when a kid says, 'This book feels so real; this could have happened at my school.'

One of my pet hates is people re-Tweeting praise, I loathe it more than anything else in the world.

Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.

I must confess that it is a lot easier for me as a pastor to preach about prayer than to spend that same amount of time engaged in it.

I'm not preaching about things you should do, I'm not political or anything. I'm probably not the best role model.

Obviously, at work, Alexa Bliss would never admit anything is wrong with her because nothing is wrong with Alexa Bliss. As a person, everything in daily life can affect us. I think it's great we can share that on social media and Nia preaches body positivity. I share the same sentiment.

Live your own life; practice what you preach.

Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down.

The thing for me is to always tell the truth. Not to preach, but to tell the truth.

I don't want to preach to anyone, because if someone preaches to me, I just turn off - I've been preached to my whole life.

I'm not some kind of preacher saying 'You have to have natural hair,' but for me it's easier.

I wrote in my first book that I was broken, and now it just makes me mad every time. This is why writing words in books is so precarious. This is why Jesus only wrote in the sand, right? I just - I hate that I wrote that.