Quotes About Authenticity

I want to be outspoken. I want to say my opinions and I hope they're taken in the right way. I don't want to stop being free. And I won't.

If you don't tell your stories, who will?

Hij werd nu wie hij in werkelijkheid was. Septimus Heap.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

The bathroom mirror has not budged, the woman who lives there can tell the truth from the stuff they say and looks me in the eye- says do you prefer the easy way? No? Well ok then, dont cry.

I am not a pretty girl. I don't want to be a pretty girl. No, I want to be more than a pretty girl.

If you don't live what you sing about, your mirror is gonna fade.

And she tried the high heels but she couldn't bring herself to prance.

If you get caught with your pants down, take 'em off.

Get ready: The truth is too valuable to put safety first. Get set: No amount of exposure is unbearable unless you let it be. Go: If you get caught with your pants down, take 'em off.

I found I generally preferred the old leftie, radical-activist types who stood charmingly and unfashionably on the side of substance.

Never Yet Spoken I believe in all that has never yet been spoken. I want to free what waits within me so that what no one has dared to wish for may for once spring clear without my contriving. From The Book of Hours I, 12

The truth I'm trying to convey is not a startling one, it is simply a peeling away of affectation. I use whatever gift I have to get behind the facade.

I wanted, more than anything, a chance to be simple, once again, as I was meant to be, and as I had been long ago, a long, long time ago.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists

So Dorothy said we might was well go out to Fountainblo with Louie and Robber if Louie would take off his yellow spats which were made of yellow shammy skin with pink pearl buttons. Because Dorothy said, 'Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all the time.

You don't have to dress up or anything, not like when you go to Wal-Mart or something.

I'd learned long before this that the louder and more publicly a person talked about his faith, the more he probably had to cover up.

They were getting to know not only the details of each other's lives, but getting to know one another - a different thing. The process of getting to know anyone is not merely a matter of listening, watching, and understanding. M. Maurois has pointed out how, in any new relationship, we feel an unconscious need to create, as it were, a new picture, a new edition of ourselves to present to the fresh person who claims our interest; for them, we in a strange sense wish to, and do, start life anew.

Because he knew it was important for the truth to be told.

There was nothing picturesque here. No thatch. It would never have featured in an episode of Midsomer Murders.