Lugubrious and pretentious at the same time.

I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

— John Milius

What's happened to society is we've become really pretentious. But there was a time in my life where I really had to choose between…

— Nadiya Hussain

I'm quite gloomy. I just am one of those people, vaguely lugubrious.

— Nick Hornby

“lugubrious for that. I say, isn’t “lugubrious”

— Clara Benson

My son is actually named after Beck, the musician. We heard Beck on the radio and thought that was a good nickname for a…

— Lauren Groff

I think to have a regular job and be a mom is not as, of course there are challenges, but it's not like being…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

“Heresy is usually quite sophisticated, actually has a meaning, and is to be taken very seriously. It is therefore to be carefully distinguished from…

— Anonymous

If we wanted to make it the way I imagined I knew that we would have to wake up earlier and start very early.…

— Luc Besson

“Lord Malquist and Mr Moon was the literary equivalent of the Wonderbra for intellectually pretentious students of the seventies.”

— Linda Grant

I made a choice that I was not going to be a pretentious writer.

— Janet Evanovich

Slade was never pretentious. It was just music to them. Pop, rock, soul…it was all the same to Slade. They wrote great songs. And,…

— Noel Gallagher

“What if this is a horrible mistake?" I croaked. "Oh, it'll be horrible fine, just a bunch of pretentious rich people with shelves of…

— Ruta Sepetys

Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean…

— Gary Shteyngart

Sometimes I might go too far with the pretentious references, which I might not do again. But when you're writing, you're sitting alone in…

— John Michael McDonagh

“A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious.”

— Christy Leigh Stewart