Quotes About Realness

#1. Poetry is a way of coming to know the realness of things; fiction is a way of coming to know the world of relationships; nonfiction is a way of coming to know the world of the mind.

Kelly Cherry

#2. There's a certain level of realness in Philly. You know, just - people are people. You know, it doesn't matter who you are or who you think you are, you're just a person in Philly.

Jill Scott

#3. I always said if I played a drag queen, I'd want to create a template with the realness they talk about in 'Paris Is Burning.'

Billy Porter

#4. But I want to feel like life matters. I
had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.

David Levithan

#5. Perfect doesn't exist. Realness does. Realness is what I need.

Jessica Sorensen

#6. Hollywood is lacking realness in their female characters. I don't think I'm the only one who thinks that and wants to change it.

Nicole Holofcener

#7. It's hard to express how profound it is to have your experience broadcast back to you for the first time, how shocking it feels to be acknowledged, as if your own sense of realness had only existed before as a concept.

Carrie Brownstein

#8. From what I have been saying, I trust it is clear that when I can permit realness in myself or sense it or permit it in another, I am very satisfied. When I cannot permit it in myself or fail to permit it in another, I am very distressed.

Carl R. Rogers

#9. As a fan, I connect with realness. Whether it's strong or vulnerable, if it's real, I can connect with it.

Kelsea Ballerini

#10. To align oneself with the real while intimating that others are at play, approximate, or in imitation can feel good. But any fixed claim on realness, especially when it is tied to an identity, also has a finger in psychosis.

Maggie Nelson

#11. Life is like a box of chocolates, you fill your body with toxins,
And amoxicillin and penicillin to cure your illness.
But in realness? These medical companies will get you monthly
Prescribing me pills that make me ill, just to comfort me.

Termanology

#12. Perfection, in the form of a flawless stream of words delivered with cool composure, is never as persuasive as realness. An impassioned but imperfect speech, which shows you care too much to hide flaws, is far more compelling.

Charlotte Beers

#13. I think it need realness, you should speak on thing that you know about, that you being from, that you experienced or that you been around, you know. I think you need a good hook, good beats and good lyrics.

Obie Trice

#14. The absence of an empathetic listener, or more radically, the absence of an addressable other, an other who can hear the anguish of one's memories and thus affirm and recognize their realness, annihilates the story

Dori Laub

#15. Your realness will attract the next generation way more than your relevancy.

Brad Lomenick

#16. Diamond Sutra says, 'Make no formed conceptions about the realness of existence nor about the unrealness of existence, or words like that. Handcuffs will get soft and billy clubs will topple over, let's go on being free anyhow.

Jack Kerouac

#17. I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty.

Carrie Brownstein

#18. People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language.

Afrojack

#19. I think you can hear the struggles and hear a realness in Theocracy songs, a human element that you don't get from a lot of the typical Christian stuff.

Matt Smith

#20. I'm trying to maintain a level of realness that my fans can appreciate.

Kevin Hart

#21. 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.

Jerry B. Jenkins

#22. Defining oneself is a revolutionary act, and, as described in her memoir, Janet Mock fiercely fought to free herself with exquisite bravery and sensitivity. Redefining Realness is full of hope, dreams, and determination. It is a true American girl story.

Michaela Angela Davis

#23. You can't have friendships that aren't based on realness.

Chelsea Handler

#24. I make no apologies for loving the finer things in life or the men I choose to date. I don't feel bad about the person I am. Now, I do have an edge, rawness and realness, and I can tell you I'm going to keep that.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

#25. What Sri Krishna is saying, is that it's a terrible mistake to believe that this life we lead is real. Obviously it's real, but it doesn't last very long in its realness. It's very ephemeral and to mistaken the forms of life, the shapes that life takes, for reality, is not wise.

Frederick Lenz

#26. If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.

Omari Hardwick

#27. Somerset has a wonderful wildness about it - it hasn't been tamed. This is farming country, and there's a realness here - I love it.

Anthony Head

#28. The warm solid definitive realness of him. For the first time in many long years she felt her heart open, and knew love as more than a memory.

Cassandra Clare

#29. I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it ... I always want to see the third dimension of something ... I want to come alive with the object.

Andrew Wyeth

#30. Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

Sandra Bernhard

#31. Practicing dialogue helps you to cultivate a realness that allows you to face reality on its own terms, not just the terms you'd like it to have in order to remain in your comfort zone.

Oli Anderson

#32. If you get into a fight and somebody punches you, you get two feelings. One: That really hurts. Two: That relief in the realness of, like, Wow, this is what it is. It's not an intellectual process.

John Darnielle

#33. There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a real human experience for the fans.

Wynonna Judd

#34. 'The Voice' has lots of singers who fit the 'Idol' mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also has long-suffering adult pros, with a whiff of thirtysomething despair in their voices. That adds an edge of realness.

Rob Sheffield

#35. Nothing we do makes us real. That which is real makes us do.

T.F. Hodge

#36. Ammu's tears made everything that had so far seemed unreal, real.

Arundhati Roy

#37. Treat others with respect and you will always be wealthy, because your community is your real currency.

Bryant McGill

#38. People seldom change. Only their masks do. It is only our perception of them and the perception they have of themselves that actually change.

Shannon L. Alder

#39. Dialogue with the self is the source of all insight and insight is the only thing that can change your life.

Oli Anderson

#40. Uniqueness is like a signature, nobody can forge it's exact copy.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#41. There are two types of 'busy': 1)
Constantly distracting yourself from what is true. 2) Constantly working to create something real.

Oli Anderson

#42. To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you; to engage in debate is to ultimately serve the illusions of your ego.

Oli Anderson

#43. To this day it cracks me up to think that my debut on national British television as a reporter ends with me turning a trick.

RuPaul

#44. Above the keyhole the door has a latch. It is pretending to be an authentic old latch. The door is pretending to be an authentic old door. Maybe everything there is isn't authentic any more. Maybe everything there is is a kind of pretending.

Ali Smith

#45. For a moment, I felt like myself again. Not the new me, not the old me, just the real me.

Leslea Tash