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• There's something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story and your pain.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Pain, Moving, Stories

  Source: www.newstatesman.com

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• I always try to approach things from the point of authenticity. I've done that for my short films, working with non-actors from the real environments where you go exploring and placing them into the cast alongside professional actors.

  Tom Green

  Real, Trying, Actors

  Source: dailydead.com

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• When you finally embrace the gift of your sexual orientation it IS the end; the end of shame, fear and oppression. You leave the darkness of the closet and begin a life of honesty, authenticity and freedom.

  Anthony Venn-Brown

  Honesty, Gay, Darkness

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• We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing

  Charles E. Schaefer

  Fun, Play, Alive

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• She was privileged enough to feel at home anywhere, and to equate squalor with authenticity.

  Nick Laird

  Home, Enough, Squalor

  Nick Laird (2009). “Glover's mistake”

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• In Sussex Drive, Linda Svendsen takes us deep behind the lines of Ottawa’s politics, polls and pomp, and into the lives of Canada’s two most powerful women. By turns shocking, funny, sizzling and illuminating, this story is brilliantly written with an unnerving authenticity that makes it seem all too real. You’re going to want to read this.

  Terry Fallis

  Powerful, Real, Two

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• Expecting a novel to bear the weight of our whole disturbed society—to help solve our contemporary problems—seems to me a peculiarly American delusion. To write sentences of such authenticity that refuge can be taken in them: isn't this enough? Isn't it a lot?

  Jonathan Franzen

  Taken, Writing, Weight

  Jonathan Franzen (2007). “How to Be Alone: Essays”, p.84, Macmillan

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• When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.

  Martin Seligman

  Psychology, Virtue, Well Being

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.17, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• So rich people could go slumming? Come on, give me a break [it’s a] masturbatory fantasy for Anna Wintour and Vogue. They always go and try to co-opt what they can’t own. They try to co-opt authenticity and turn it into something boring.

  Legs McNeil

  People, Giving, Trying

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• MY INSPIRATION FOR THIS LIMITED EDITION DESIGN WAS BASED ON THE LEGACY OF HENNESSY AS A BRAND. TO ME, HENNESSY HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT QUALITY, AUTHENTICITY, TRADITION, AND ELEGANCE.

  Shepard Fairey

  Inspiration, Design, Quality

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• A Christian's authenticity is show in difficult hours it is in difficult hours that the church grows in authenticity. Blest be God for this difficult hour in our archdiocese. Let us be worthy of it.

  Oscar Romero

  Christian, Church, Hours

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• Sincerity is a Christian virtue, as is honesty about our struggles. But my generation needs to realize that Christianity is more than chic fragility, endless self-revelation, and the coolness that comes with authenticity.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Christian, Honesty, Struggle

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• Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.

  Bill Hybels

  Spiritual

  "Too Busy Not to Pray". Book by Bill Hybels, 2008.

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• Biblical archaeology was developed early in this century in an effort to substantiate the authenticity of the Biblical account. It's by now generally recognized in Biblical scholarship that it has done the opposite. The Bible is not a historical text, and has only vague resemblances to what took place, as far as can be reconstructed. For example, whether Israel ever existed is not clear; if so, it was probably a small kingdom somewhere in the hills, apparently virtually unknown to the Egyptians.

  Noam Chomsky

  Biblical, Israel, Opposites

  Source: chomsky.info

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• I thought that Christian was a noun, a person looking for authenticity. I never understood that idea that a band could be Christian or something could be Christian. But it just can be and is.

  Rob Bell

  Christian, Ideas, Band

  Source: www.inlander.com

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• Experiencing the world through Endless secondhand information isn't enough. If we want authenticity we have to initiate it.

  Travis Rice

  World, Want, Information

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• The biggest surprise on the soulful journey to authenticity, whether as a philosophy or a spiritual path, is that the path is a spiral. We go up, but we go in circles. Eash time around, the view gets a little bit wider.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Journey

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• Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones wrote a great piece in Harvard Business Review titled "Managing Authenticity." In it, they argue that establishing authenticity as a leader is a two-part challenge: "First, you have to ensure that your words are consistent with your deeds; otherwise, followers will never accept you as authentic. The second challenge of authentic leadership is finding common ground with the people you seek to recruit as followers.

  Chip Espinoza

  People, Leader, Challenges

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I love memoirs, particularly obscure ones because the writer is usually a regular guy just telling what happened to him and to his friends. What these tales lack in artfulness they make up for in passion and authenticity. For a writer of fiction, they are solid gold. I have stolen so much from memoirs it's ridiculous.

  Steven Pressfield

  Passion, Guy, Gold

  Interview with Will Duquette, www.patheos.com. May 21, 2014.

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• Authenticity is not an innate quality - that is, you are not born with it. Being an authentic leader is not something you can say about yourself; it must be attributed to you.

  Chip Espinoza

  Leader, Quality, About Yourself

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Real artists offer authenticity, not just money.

  Rhymefest

  Real, Artist

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• How much time, creative energy, and emotion do we expend resisting change because we assume growth must always be painful? Much personal growth is uncomfortable, but it's worse to thwart the ascent of your authenticity.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Inspirational, Creative, Growth

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House

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• If all the evidence put forward for the authenticity of religious teachings originates in the past, it is natural to look round and see whether the present, about which it is easier to form judgements, may not also be able to furnish evidence of the sort. If by this means we could succeed in clearing even a single portion of the religious system from doubt, the whole of it would gain enormously in credibility.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Teaching, Mean

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Let go of who you think you should be in order to be who you are. Be imperfect and have compassion for yourself. Connection is the result of authenticity.

  Brené Brown

  Letting Go, Thinking, Compassion

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• When people come together around music, there's something ancient going on. It has to come from a genuine place and that's part of the challenge. You have to cultivate that authenticity everyday.

  Stephan Jenkins

  People, Challenges, Everyday

  "Get Back to That Place: Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins Talks Touring Again and Why He Adores Tove Lo". Interview with Kelli Bender, people.com. June 30, 2015.

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