What people look for in their leaders is authenticity. You say, 'I'm not going to ask you to do anything that I'm not going to do myself.'
I love British television. I love the irony, I love the authenticity and I love the roles I get put up for.
What is driving the tendency to discount Joseph Smith's revelations is not that they seem less reasonable than those of Moses; it is that the book containing them is so new. When it comes to prophecy, antiquity breeds authenticity. Events in the distant past, we tend to think, occurred in sacred, mythic time.
I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
I stay away from desserts, but every now and then, I have a sticky toffee pudding or a cup of tea with some biscuits.
To be able to research directly from firefighters makes all the difference in the world in the authenticity of a performance.
The hallmarks of the 'Brothers in Arms' series are about authenticity, squad combat, brotherhood between soldiers.