Quotes About Authenticity

People ask me about past projects I've worked on, and other things; I'm just really bad at lying. I have a bad poker face, so I just try to tell people how I'm feeling in the moment and really what I was trying to do.

I've not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had to produce in order to get... credits. Production of a collection of poems every three years or every five years, or whatever, looks good, on paper. But it might not be good; it might be writing on a kind of automatic pilot.

If you only play the glamour doll and you want to cling on to the image, then it will be difficult. But if you don't, you will prolong your career.

Don't try to stand out that much for prom. Be yourself.

For 'Prom,' if I had missed high school, I don't think it would come off as real.

Performance is better than promise. Exuberant assurances are cheap.

I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you.

I can promise my fans what you see from me is what you get! No additives, no preservatives.

My goal is not to get on 'Dancing With The Stars.' I can promise that.

With this album, I tried not to think too much. If I heard a song that I loved, I promised myself I wouldn't over-think it. If I loved it and if I wanted to cut it, I would.

I promised myself that I wouldn't be afraid to be who I was when I chose to do this music thing.

This is Life. Nothing's promised or perfect, neither am I.

Real Democrats don't make promises they can't keep.

My favorite commencement addresses are the ones that get real and don't make too many promises.

The new Peter Molyneux has been born that never ever promises things but always ever shows it.

You may hear the most beautiful things, you may hear promises, you may hear everything you want to hear but if the person you're dating is not following up with their actions then they're just words.

There are times when you can take yourself seriously and there are times when you can cut loose. It really depends on your goals and it depends on what you're promising the customer.

The first time that somebody handed me a sheet of paper with a promo on it, it was like a 'throw up in your mouth' kind of moment. And it's not, like, their fault, you know? It's not the writers' fault. But if was my world, there would be no written promos; there'd be no scripts.

I want people to see me for who I am and not for how someone else is trying to promote me.

I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.

My dream is to be able to promote a message of honesty, whether with music or in anything that I'm doing. I don't think to be a role model you have to be perfect.

I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.

I don't have a need to promote myself.

I'm different from any other designer, businesswise, in that I've built this company up and I own it. I never had business hype behind me to promote my image... My image is real... I have never had marketing people telling me what to do.