While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex, sophisticated perceptions.
Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel - as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can - then I am nothing. Let me feel guilty. . . don't try to educate me. . . don't protect me.
I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it.
The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.
It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.
When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it.
Taylor Sheridan I think wrote a very good script. It reeked of authenticity. He seemed like a guy who knew what he was talking about and it turned out that Taylor's uncle is a Marshal, so he knew things from that side.
Occasionally, on screen, Barbara [Stanwyck] had a wary, watchful quality about her that I've noticed in other people who had bad childhoods; they tend to keep an eye on life because they don't think it can be trusted. After her mother was killed by a streetcar, she had been raised in Brooklyn by her sisters, and from things she said, I believe she had been abused as a child. She had lived an entirely different life than mine, that's for sure, which is one reason I found her so fascinating. I think her early life was one reason she had such authenticity as an actress, and as a person.
American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There's less authenticity, so it's more accessible.
When I was a kid, people wanted to be an astronaut. Today, kids want to be famous, and that's totally the wrong approach. You have to have authenticity in what you're doing. You have to really care about the core message of what you're saying, and then everything else will fall into place.
The universe will pay you to be yourself and do what you really love.
When do you feel most authentic? Authenticity feels so natural, so why isn't it easy?
Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question naturally arises: How is it, then, that no work proceeds from them, bearing any stamp of authenticity and permanence; of worth for more than one day?
The strength of the church is not the strength of its institutions but the authenticity of its witness.
With any character, the main objective is to bring authenticity to the role.
Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs!
Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are.
Only those who are being burned know what fire is like.
The [scouts] could lend an authenticity that's even beyond what we had on the page.