Quotes About Authenticity

The thing I'm hung up on is the idea of seeing something real. I don't think most people feel half the things they pretend to feel.

One thing I realize now is that you only advertise your beliefs with a t-shirt if you're seriously insecure.

You are one person with your mother, and another with your lover, and yet another with your child. Those other people create you-finish you-as much as you create you. When you're gone, the ones you've left behind get to keep the same part of you they always had

The truth is always more scary than kissing someone for the first time.

It's because she doesn't love being lonely. When a girl loses her virginity, though, it may hurt, but it's real. It might be the realest, most private thing you could ever see in another person. You wonder who she'll be in that moment, when you finally get past all the pretend.

La tua personalità non è solo ciò che sai di te stesso, ma anche quello che gli altri sanno di te. Sei una persona con tua madre, un'altra con il tuo amante e un'altra ancora con tuo figlio. Queste altre persone ti creano – ti completano – esattamente come tu crei te stesso. Quando non ci sei più, chi è rimasto continua a conservare le parti di te che ha sempre avuto con sé.

If you gotta tell them who you are, you ain't nobody.

If you cheat on your road work in the dark of the morning, you will be found out in the big fight under the bright lights.

I'm going to say my name is Dorothy Sherman and I'm telling it like it is. I'm going to say my friends call me Dot, and I prefer my enemies not to call me at all.

The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.

Instead of asking for something, we can just be the thing itself.

Art is bad when 'you see the intent and get put off.' (Goethe) In Tolstoy one is unaware of the intent, and sees only the thing itself. from the book, On Retranslating A Russian Classic Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.

People aren't tidy creations to be stacked neatly in the Tupperware or poured in premeasured quantities from a box into the Cuisinart with no spills; everybody alive is a lost and disastrous mess.

I had never before seen somebody I admired understand what was expected of him, choose to act otherwise, and be happier for it. For the first time in my life I realized that it was possible to reinvent oneself.

'The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it's still exciting. It's about real people and it doesn't shy from the painful points of life.

My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.

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

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids get off base sometimes. Because they don't see the same things at both places.

Be happy with who God made you to be, and quit wishing you were something different.

Don't waste your time trying to win people over that can never be won over.

Be secure enough in who you are that you don't live to please people. As long as you're doing what God has put in your heart, you don't need to look to the left or the right. Stay focused on your goals, and God will get you where you're supposed to be.

After all God doesn't want you to be an imitation of someone else. You should be the original you were created to be. There is an anointing on your life, an empowerment. Not to be somebody else, but to be you. If you let people squeeze you into their molds and you bow down to their pressure to try to please your critics, it not only takes away your uniqueness, but it also lessens the favor on your life.

If you will get free from what everyone else thinks and start being who you were created to be, you will rise to a new level.