The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive,… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
If you know what it is before you even start, it's not as interesting. Central to being an actor is pretending, and… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
I don't believe in pretending to be someone else. I'm what I actually am in real life. For instance, like any normal… — Shreya Ghoshal Copy Share Image
Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Certainly I've lived my whole life through my imagination. But the world of imagination is there for all of us--a sense of… — Jim Henson Copy Share Image
As a child, one of my defense mechanisms was to try to be funny. My mom tried to nurture that by putting… — Ian Gomez Copy Share Image
“An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.” — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
The political arena is the funniest.They [politicians] are always pretending to change, but they never change. They're the best actors and actresses… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a saying that you can't awaken somebody who's pretending to be asleep. — Willie Parker Copy Share Image
and because what we learn in the dark remains all our lives, a noise like the sea, displacing the day's pale knowledge,… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
I'm suffering from stage fright. I don't like making speeches. [...] I'm the kind of introvert actor who likes putting on other… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
Im done with pretending to be someone else to win you back. if you really love me we're meant to be — Tatyana Matias Copy Share Image
Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde! — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
My breathing was shallow and my hands were fists. 'Oh, yes, I'm going to have to kill you Barrons.' I said coolly,… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can actually trick yourself into feeling better. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy means deliberately pretending. None of us lives up to his ideals; none of us is all that he would like to… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
And so, now things that are important are, for example, the upcoming elections. It's important that society demonstrate that it is not… — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share Image
I love it here in Boston and I love studying medicine. But it’s not home. Dublin is home. Being back with you… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
I think the Republican budget priorities are messed up. I salute for the way they're attacking some of the entitlement programs, but… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
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