Quotes About Realness

I've never really gone for the razzle-dazzle types: no quarterbacks, no flashy guys, and no Prince Charmings.

Don't be afraid to be ugly on Snapchat at 2 a.m. when you wake up and roll out of bed. It's those real moments that create that a connection; it's like, 'Hey, this person is just like me.'

People say I'm deceptively unassuming, but that's the way I go through life. I'm not flash. You can make it sound calculated, but it's pretty much just me.

sentimentalism, nor anything that belongs

Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.

My experience is authenticity and honesty always works best with people my age and younger, and even older. Millennials specifically really respond to keeping it real about your opinions.

In hip hop, 'real' has always meant one who represents in actuality what they present in imagery. For instance, once upon a time, if a rapper spoke about being gangsta, they needed to truly be that, or they were 'frontin.'

Someone once asked me, How are Christians supposed to act? Christianity is not an act; it is a real thing. We cannot be right with God and not be real.

There was no pretention here, no hidden meanings in the phrases they spoke, no elaborate plans designed to impress the other. Though it had always been easy to spend time with Mike, she suddenly realized that in the whirlwind of the past couple of weeks, she'd almost forgot how much she enjoyed it.

The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.

People think that as a celebrity, you have to have this sort of mystique about you, but I'm probably the realest person you'll ever meet.

I think authenticity is the name of the game.

I don't like names that are clever or made-up sounding.

Live how you live, feel how you feel and fuck all the phonies in your way.

Things are different when you live closer to the bone, Mr. Stoddard.

Life is messy. I certainly don't expect tidiness from yours or anybody else's.

In the mid-aughts, there was even a short-lived movement called New Sincerity, where artists and writers thought that it would be a radical idea to feel. "To feel" entailed regressing to one's own childhood, when there was no Internet and life was much purer and realer. Though they prized authenticity above all else, they stylized their work in a vaguely repellent faux-naïf aesthetic that dismissed politics for shoe-gazing self-interest.

She wasn't any kind of show pony.

I come from very common stock, and I've always been uncomfortable with pretension and all the forms it can take, including disingenuous broadcasting.

I love Andrew Weatherall; he's so real and uncompromising and a sweetheart.

What you have to understand is that my thing is not glamour. I love stretch marks and C-section scars and all of that. I'm a grown man. You don't gotta put on no makeup with me.

I dislike being fake the most in this world; thus, when the ambience is natural and comfortable, I find it unforgettable.

If you have not suffered opposition in the journey of life, then, you are not real.

An original pebble is better than a counterfeit diamond.