Quotes About Genuineness

If you don't want to be foolish, don't try to fool anyone.

I think people can stand to take themselves just a little less seriously. I'm fighting the war against pretension.

It seems like such a waste of time to expend all that energy trying to convince the world you're better than everyone else. I can't understand it." ''Of course you can't. You like nothing better than to point out all your character flaws to everyone who'll listen." She must have found his exasperation amusing because she smiled. "They'll discover those flaws for themselves if they're around me long enough. I just save them the effort.

It is much harder to pretend than it is to simply be who you already are.

I think this is a TRUE story.

And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.

Not like this. He wanted it to be real.

Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around.

Okay, maybe I don't go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are hard to come by, but I do care for some people.

Así que, después, cuando me susurra: -Me amas. ¿Real o no? Yo respondo: -Real.

I want to die as myself.

We hide our feelings, we hide our past, we hide our true intentions. There's no way to know what's real anymore.

Me amas, real o no Real? Real

I tell him,"Real.""-Katniss Everdeen

As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride, showmanship, the pursuit of power, self-aggrandizement, revenge, making money. Not that there's anything wrong with any of that, but I dislike closing a book with the sense that I've been had.

I can't just make a song people can dance in a club to... it still has to be real.

Not comfortable doing song and dance stuff as no normal person does in his/her real life.

I only record songs that I really like and believe in and can sing with conviction.

The thing about Sheeran is that he is an incredibly real artist and songwriter. He is not trying to be anybody else other than himself.

It's easy to get by on a facade of fancy style, but sooner or later, people are going to see through it. I'm trying to be as honest as possible.

If you try to sound like somebody else, it will never work because we already have that person. You are noticed when you try to be an original sound.

I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.

I love to listen to people talk, especially when they're being really honest and they're not trying to sound any particular way.

I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.