I feel totally disconnected from reality in Washington. Maybe I'm just really pretentious - in fact, I probably am - but I… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking… — James Iha Copy Share Image
If you're not allowed to experiment anymore for fear of being considered self-indulgent or pretentious or what have you, then everyone's going… — Francis Ford Coppola 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
I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart. — Brian K. Vaughan 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
People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it… — Afrojack Copy Share Image
Whenever there remains any support for the ego within, even if it be only an atom's weight, then you are pretentious and… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
Early on, I said to myself that I would like to write a kind of moral and spiritual history of a place.… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
There are good and bad movies, and long ones, and pretentious ones, and fun ones, and it's kind of healthy not just… — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
Poets, on the face of it, have either got to be easier or to write their own notes; readers have either got… — William Empson Copy Share Image
If sanity ever returns to our society and we stop taking pretentious elites seriously, one of the signs will be that the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Never use jargon words like 'reconceptualize', 'demassification', 'attitudinally', 'judgmentally'. They are hallmarks of a pretentious ass. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious? — R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz Copy Share Image
But you need to strive to try and communicate and try and change things in a similar way. And then people can… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I find it [science] analytical, pretentious and superficial-largely because it does not address itself to dreams, chance, laughter, feelings, or paradox-in other… — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
The best artists are people who don't consider themselves artists, and the people who do are usually the most pretentious and annoying.… — Aphex Twin Copy Share Image
Every writer, by the way he uses the language, reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacities, his bias....Avoid the elaborate,… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
It sounds stupid, but there's nothing like walking down the street and seeing a building that's older than 100 years old. I… — Christian Cooke Copy Share Image
'Independent' means one thing to me: It means that regardless of the source of financing, the director's voice is extremely present. It's… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
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