Suzanne Vega Quotes

He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric.

I behave in public like I behave in private.

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then.

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. —SUZANNE NECKER, WIFE OF JACQUES NECKER, MINISTER OF FINANCE

People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.

Most people love you for who you pretend to be.

I think it's important to be authentic to who you are, and if you're inauthentic at all, people smell that from a mile away.

It's much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else.

Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you.

Man is never so authentically himself as when at play.

We are so defined by how people see us. We're a very materialistic culture. We're a very image-driven culture. What if that goes away and you are left with, God help us, what, indeed, is your essential self?

You're yourself," Tana said, grinning. "More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you.

A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.

My life is my statement and I try to be true to myself and thusly to other people. Whatever my failings are, they are human and I try to perfect it each day.

As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?

Don't get confused with what people say you are, with who you know you are.

That's the way I feel, at least: like there's a real me and a reflection of me, and I have no way of telling which is which.

People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.

Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.

The most interesting people are never perfect.

Most people are other people.

No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.

Important people are much more interesting when they are drunk and seem much more like human beings.

There is the "you" that people see and then there is the "rest of you". Take some time and craft a picture of the "rest of you." This could be a drawing, in words, even a song. Just remember that the chances are good it will be full of paradox and contradictions.