Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.
Mary Pipher

An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
Rebecca West

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
Allan Bloom

Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.
Keanu Reeves

But since you're asking me, I'll tell you my opinion: all cornbread is authentic, as long as it's good, hot, and made with love and fresh ingredients.
Jeremy Jackson

Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input.
Ron Johnson

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
John Le Carre

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
Doug Coupland

Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans.
John T. Flynn

Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.
Judith Wright

He sits at the kitchen table, which is the only authentic way to touch down at home in Queens.
Francis X. Clines

I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture.
Peter Wright

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
Jerry Garcia

I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content.
Ken Burns

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.
Thom Yorke

I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.
Margaret O'Brien

I've always tried to stay true to my authentic self.
Katie Couric