Pretending Quotes

811 quotes by 621 authors

All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time… — Margaret Atwood
There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk. — Drew Barrymore
I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be. — Christina Aguilera
The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to… — David Bowie
A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can. — Jeff Bridges
What was frustrating about Armageddon was the time I spent not doing anything. It was a big special effects film, and I wasn't crazy about… — Steve Buscemi
I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality. — Helena Bonham Carter
There's something magical about spending a Sunday night watching real people at a deli, then watching fake people pretending to be real on TV, then… — Diablo Cody
I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I… — Paulo Coelho
One of the benefits of being you is: You know that the people who love you, love you for you. They don't love you for… — Jenna Marbles
If we accept and internalize the fact of our own mortality, then, by definition, we have to deal with the essential questions of how we… — Surya Das
Hiding your hurt only intensifies it. Problems grow in the dark and only become bigger and bigger, but when exposed to the light of truth,… — Rick Warren
In the end, worship can never be a performance, something you're pretending or putting on. It's got to be an overflow of your heart...Worship is… — Matt Redman
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention… — Northrop Frye
The world should be worried about those who go around the planet with a can of gasoline in one hand and a box of matches… — Rodrigue Tremblay
Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending. — Drake
Be original, stop pretending to be someone you are not, be your own light in this world. — Leon Brown
Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't. — Rick Warren
Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains?… — Agnes Repplier

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