Quotes About Authenticity

With my teammates, I'm more open, funnier than people see me.

I don't have to do anything outrageous. I just feel like if I come and be completely who I am and completely who I am to this game and give the same to my peers, to my teammates, these coaches, I feel like that's all we need to do.

No one had ever called me unnatural before, except for the time I put ketchup on a taco. Mead, Richelle (2009-08-07). Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel (p. 38). Penguin Young Readers Group. Kindle Edition.

I'd thought I was bold and alluring, but I was only a girl playing at being a woman.

Walpole sniffed, "to prostitute his character and authenticate his hypocrisy.

It is easy to tell a stranger's story; I didn't know if I had the guts to tell my own.

Don't worry about what people think, because once it's all over the people who love you will make you what they want you to be, and the people who don't love you will, too.

I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.

It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten true.

It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten it true.

Even if you become a very fine actor, if you are inordinately attached to your act, you will notice that you feel empty much of the time, for you will realize that the critics' acclaim and the loud applause from your audience are offered in response to your act rather than to the natural you.

I am not that creative. And therefore you must be real.

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

these leaders were promoting was a twisted version of truth. It was error packaged with elements of truth and then stealthily posed to believers in the guise of authenticity to make it more appetizing.

that corrupted version is presented as something improved or enhanced — when, in fact, it is a "perverted" adaptation of what was originally intended.

Your authority in part comes from your authenticity, the authenticity of your struggles and your flawed humanity.

But beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit, To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself --- avoid trying to be something you're not. For a goddess, that's especially hard. We can change so easily. -Aphrodite

Fake niggas always caught up in the realest shit, Mama always told me "watch who you be dealin with" snake bitches can't get wrapped up in your feelings with

A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.

No one wants to see cool people doing brilliantly. I want to see the struggle. That's the fun bit.

If you try to please everyone you'll please no one.

If the Indian people want stories written about themselves, how they want them told, they are going to have to make them, they're going to have to finance them. If you let Hollywood do it, Hollywood is going to get it wrong most of the time.

I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.

There is nothing more awesome than being yourself.