I'd like to think I'm not quite so pretentious as to think my characters go off and live their lives once I've… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
The same people that always think I'm pretentious will think I'm pretentious, and the people who relate to me will continue to… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
To me, it's important to preserve proximity to the people. I wouldn't do anything pretentious, and nothing that hurts the people who… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
I like to carry around extremely pretentious books, and I don't know if I can read them, but if I hold them… — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
There's not much longevity in music today. It's so easy to go in, put some pretentious lyrics on, with people saying the… — Patti LaBelle Copy Share Image
When I say I want to become a legend, some people say it's pretentious. For me, it's a challenge. My desire, a… — Paul Pogba Copy Share Image
For many, many years I wouldn't sing 'My Way.' It seemed pretentious for me to sing [my father's] song 'My Way.' Now… — Frank Sinatra, Jr Copy Share Image
Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I don't like to use the word "tricks" , I do think of them as theatrical pieces, and… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always… — Kandyse McClure Copy Share Image
I hate the whole group of artists who are so hermetic and completely indecipherable on some level and they're all proud of… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
I've written a lot of wordy, erudite, pretentious songs, but believe it or not, I'm usually doing my damnedest to resist the… — Peter Blegvad Copy Share Image
When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I'll never forget it. I was starting to hike up the red rocks, and honestly, it was as if I heard the… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
If I said who I was influenced by, it would be really weird and pretentious because it would be people who have… — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
It's very hard to get pretentious about beer. You can become knowledgeable and start to talk with a highfalutin' vocabulary. But you… — Fritz Maytag Copy Share Image
“Part of the blame lies with intellectuals who are unable or unwilling to convey their ideas in terms that will play down… — Michael Perry Copy Share Image
In the Lamborghini I have to avoid certain roads because of pot holes, and there's nowhere to put my drink, no cup… — Danica Patrick Copy Share Image
In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past,… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I loved surrealism and abstract painting, and anything related to those. I always thought painting was the highest form of art. What… — Neil Farber Copy Share Image
It sounds pretentious to say I 'divide' my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I feel like this thing [that] we're rocking back and forth like we're stuck in a snow bank and we all sort… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
I don't hold on to fear as much as I used to, because I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
Film is a narrative format. Some fashion films try to retain some of the poetic mystery, but most of the time they… — Johan Renck Copy Share Image
I took a bite of cookie and chewed. “Hmmm,” I said, trying not to spit crumbs. “Clear vanilla notes, too-sweet chocolate chips,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Beyoncé's like, 'Okay. The singing is great. But you're not having any fun.' She's like, 'Remember when we were at Jay's concert… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
I really gravitate to the comedy of tonal contrasts. I hope that doesn't sound insufferably pretentious. What I mean is people having… — Matt Nix Copy Share Image
When I'm offstage, I never feel famous. I will never let anybody call a restaurant and say, "We're with Kenny Chesney. Can… — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
I'd love to do a Michel Gondry film. That would be ideal! I'd love to do an Almodovar film; you know, I… — William Moseley Copy Share Image
Film is definitely a director's medium. They're responsible for the look and everything, and you're a part of that process as an… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter. At their worst, they simply make… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound too silly or pretentious about this, but, you know, I love being in Paris. I love working… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, 'Another romantic comedy?' You see her in something like 'Walk the… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
Sometimes we talked about the nature of the human soul and about the Cosmic Unity of souls that I had believed in… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons; pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato croquettes, tinned… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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