Quotes About Genuineness

No, Kez, don't pour sugar on a pile of shit and call it breakfast.

If you write what you yourself sincerely think and feel and are interested in, the chances are very high that you will interest other people as well.

I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that it's the truth. -Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

She'd come here in order to be in a place where polite lies weren't possible

Truth could not be redefined. Truth was what it was.

because truth is always and only what it is

You're so authentic. You are who you are and you aren't willing to apologize for it. I like that.

You're beautiful." And I meant it.

I have listened to the longest-faced women trying to assure me that they do indeed have the joy of the Lord, and I sat there wondering where in the world they were hiding it. The

I've masqueraded as a literary critic, and with a great deal more success, but criticism isn't real—it's not a real thing.

No more pretending for him! He was completely and openly a mess. Meanwhile the rest of us go on trying to fool each other.

Everyone wants to tell you something -anything, everything - about themselves and they just go on and on and on. But when it comes time to show you who they are? Their shit is weak, Nadia. Their shit is lacking. And they just cover it up by talking more, by explaining away what can't be explained away. And then they go on talking more shit about someone else.

There aren't many people like that—who will tell you the truth about themselves and anything else right out. I've only met three people like that, I think—four now," she said, her smile widening to warm him. "There was

like, or because I love you—just because I am.

Even when I was little and going on auditions, it was clear who was there because they wanted to be there, and who was there because their stage parents were making them be there. There was a major difference.

We have to express ourselves in the most true and authentic way.

I think as long as you're authentic, people will relate to that.

I try to be present in the moment and to be authentic, and to listen.

Just be authentic and be you.

I don't even really try to do something different. I just do what's authentic to me.

You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.

My work has always been about authentic feeling, and I think we live in a time where we need that.

The Internet is where you can find people who are authentic.

You can tell when somebody's authentic about what they're saying.