Quotes About Authenticity

I think accurately presenting a trans character means not presenting them as perfect - I think there's been a pressure to do this with trans characters. They can have no flaws because they must represent the entire trans community.

In reality, girls make mistakes, and it's not fair to keep presenting this narrative that they're perfect.

I quite enjoy getting glammed up and I enjoy picking outfits and things. You have to not really listen to what anyone else says, as long as you feel comfortable, because if you're not, when you're presenting that comes across.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

I must never change my way - because of critics who may not like it - I preserve my language and my style.

We have to preserve folk in its authenticity. Else folk will become fake.

Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time, the less available we are to the very moment we seek to preserve.

You want the personality of each performer - whether it's singing or bass or drums or piano - to be intact. In some ways it's much more challenging to preserve that and to also make music that sounds modern.

I've worked with some people and they turn, they become that image on TV and they're lost in it, lost in who they are. It scares me. I want to stay me, preserve my soul.

I concentrate in my work on preserving and displaying the original flavor from each ingredient in a dish.

I've seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

I have found, in my life experience with President Trump, when he's out there himself and he's being his fresh, authentic self, it's very appealing to the people of the United States.

In a presidential campaign, you can't lie. You can't hide what you are and what you want. You can't hide what kind of President you'll be. You can't keep on talking about nothing indefinitely and committing to nothing, you can't keep running away from debate, masking the challenges.

I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.

The best way of dealing with the press, customers, and critics is to come clean when things go wrong and admit when you make a mistake. We are humans, and no one expects us to be perfect.

I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.

Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right.

However I am is however I am. When you see me onstage or in the press, there's not a lot of thought and calculation that goes into it.

I don't do much press. I don't like to talk about my music too much before I do it.

If I had to speak in front of a Korean audience, I would be hard pressed to sound other than a little girl.

I've never been pressed to be friends with everyone or be popular, even in school - I've always done my own thing.

My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.