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Authenticity is hard to fake
Don't impersonate. Innovate.
One of the weird things about Hollywood is we're all imposters; we're all just glammed up.
Imitation is the sincerest form of insecurity.
Thorne's voice pitched high in imitation of the queen. The impostor of my beloved niece is vanquished ... Let us put this messiness behind us while we go forward with the coronations ... I am a psychotic, power-hungry nut basket and my breath smells really bad under this veil.
Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.
If you pretend to belong, people often think you do.
You can't fake authenticity.
Looking back on our lives, we invariably find that the person we pretended to be is the person we became.
It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other.
A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
If we could believe that Jesus ... countenanced the follies, falsehoods and charlatanisms which his biographers father on him, ... the conclusion would be irresistible ... that he was an imposter.
I've always felt like an imposter, in the whole, as a musician.
You should be careful about who you pretend to be, because who you pretend to be - is actually who you are!
Who does not end up a female impersonator?
Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature ... it is more than impersonation.
The problem of pretending to be alive.
This is where someone who does his job competently and effectively believes that he's just an impostor; that he doesn't really know what he's doing.
Knowing at the same time that whatever people pretend to be, they become.
Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
What is your trouble? Mistaken identity.
Forgeries are an ever-changing portrait of human desires. Each society, each generation, fakes the things it covets most
You are who you pretend to be
People pretend to be other people because they have never thought of their true selves
The process in which a writer is compelled to counterfeit his true feelings is exactly the opposite of that which the man of society is compelled to counterfeit his. The artist disguises in order to reveal; the man of society disguises in order to conceal
I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you!
Gravity is of the very essence of imposture; it does not only mistake other things, but is apt perpetually almost to mistake itself.
This phenomenon of capable people being plagued by self-doubt has a name---the impostor syndrome.
Was it not an act of love to impersonate the loved one?
I love doing impersonations of people.
Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star.
fear of being unmasked as the incompetent you "really" are is so common that it actually has a clinical name: impostor syndrome.
To say what your disguise is would be foolish.
Impersonators, with time give up hope, but great leaders imitate with discretion.
If you're gonna pretend to be something, then you have to at least live up to what it is.
The impostor syndrome. I know it well. Inside every self-assured professional lives a frightened neurotic who prays that he can somehow succeed before his clients discover the fraud. It's the guilty secret that drives us all.
You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are.
There is no use of pretending in front of people
who had repented pretending to be someone else.
the false courage of association with a crowd.
The simple, brief experience of imagining oneself as another transformed both self-perception and, through this transformation, behavior. The maxim "fake it till you make it" gains empirical support.
I'm not fake in any way.
An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.
Who do you become when you've lost sight of who you are but the false you isn't one you can pretend to be anymore?
Pretending to be someone you're not is like kissing a live grenade.
It feels smooth with your eyes closed, but remember, brother, like it or
not, you're still kissing Death. September Young, Into the flames
No one is who they pretend to be
How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?
I owe it to my fans to be who I am. There's nothing fake about me.
Few things can frustrate us more than trying to make a person someone he or she isn't; we feel crazy when we try to pretend that person is someone he or she is not.
Women are all female impersonators to some degree.
Anybody pretending to be anything other than who you really are-you will never, ever reach your personal potential.
I pretended I belonged.
I pastiche, I quote, I lie. Fake, forge, forage, fabricate, copy, borrow, transform, steal. I illusion. I'm a genuine deceiver, a shy sham artist.
In everyone there is some willingness to merge with the anonymous crowd and to flow comfortably along with it down the river of pseudo-life. This is much more than a simple conflict between two identities. It is something far worse: it is a challenge to the very notion of identity itself.
Don't go on pretending to be someone you are notPretending-- Sizzla
Fakers Are Feted, Innovators Are Isolated
It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.
The fake missed sincerity.
I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.
Usually, impersonations come out of something you dig, because you're listening to it over and over. And you kind of start developing ... You're really trying to emulate them, then you realize, 'I sound ridiculous doing this. Oh, hey, maybe this is a funny impersonation.'
Imposter syndrome" wasn't coined as a term until the 1970s, but it's safe to assume women have always felt it: that nagging feeling that, even after you've just done something great, maybe you actually don't deserve the
praise.
Without authenticity, we are only a poor imitation of someone else.
You fake something until you're good at it.
It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.
Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.
You are my counterfeit mystery. My artificial company. My forged reality. My imaginary friend I can't eradicate.
It is humiliating to realize that when you drive yourself underground, when you fake who you are, often you do so for people you do not even like or respect.
Many students go through "imposter syndrome" as they try to assimilate into a professional culture.
It's not odd these days to hear politicians trumpeting their own authenticity, a claim that an earlier day would have considered self-cancelling. But when Michelle Bachman, Rick Perry, and Rick Santorum say "I'm authentic," they're not evoking the shade of Neal Cassady. (102)
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same.
Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.
fake people notice the most fake things in the most real people
Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.
We are, all of us, nothing but impostors to our cause, because the cause we espouse is nothing more than the blind we raise to hide our own ambitions.
One of the privileges of not knowing who you are is that you can pretend to be anyone you like.
If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
You're just trying on different identities, like everyone in those Shakespeare plays. And the people we pretend at, they're already in us. That's why we pretend them in the first place.
Imitation is flattery
To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.
She was an impostor here, unfit to be around these innocent lives.
I was an impostor, the worthy associate of a brigand, &c., &c., and all this for an atom of chlorine put in the place of an atom of hydrogen, for the simple correction of a chemical formula!
Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on.
What's the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you're faking.
Dear Anonymous, I've got a secret I know you can keep it because you don't really exist....This is what shapes you, this is what makes you
as authentic as you are
fake.
I'll gladly identify myself if you'll first simply explain what it is I'm identifying myself as. This is my position. You're requiring me to attest to facts I do not possess. The term for this is "duress."
I'm not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people.
You can pretend to be something other than who you are but eventually you will run out of energy to continue because that's not authentically you.
Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong.
You can't fake competence, creativity, or sexual arousal.
Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover the war and the war covered me; an old story, unless of course you've never heard it.
There's no point pretending to be someone or something we're not.
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
Another possibility is that it really is just me lying to myself, but that lie will become truth over time. People all over this city feign confidence, and that becomes something concrete. You can become the mask you wear on a day-to-day basis.
If a man tells you that he is fond of the Imitation, view him with sudden suspicion; he is either a dabbler or a Saint.
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
Imitation is the sincerest form of show business.
It's not important what other people call you. If you yourself know you're a fake, that's tougher to live with.
You become who you pretend to be.
A Fake Friend is an enemy in disguise.
It's easier to be authentic if you don't say you are authentic.