Pretending Quotes
811 Pretending quotes by 582 unique authors
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Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life-that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again.
— Susan Vaught
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To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.
— Roberto Benigni
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If it doesn't work horizontally as prose... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry.
— Robert Breault
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All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.
— Robert Breault
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The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.
— Charles de Lint
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When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending you can use…
— Andy Rooney
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We play make believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously--to love each other, hate each other--but then--it isn't true. It isn't true, we…
— Ugo Betti
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Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.
— Luigi Pirandello
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Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time,…
— Anthony Burgess
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When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into…
— Nicole Richie
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Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic,…
— Francis Spufford
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I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.
— Donna Summer
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I had these fangs because I had jaundice when I was a kid and I was put on so many antibiotics that my teeth rotted.…
— Charlize Theron
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Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and you're…
— Kerry Washington
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I mean, I feel like I've been pretending I was a werewolf since I was a little kid.
— Joe Manganiello
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Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.
— John Hurt
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Do not try to drive pain away by pretending it is not real. If you seek serenity in oneness, pain will vanish of its own…
— Sengcan
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Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.
— Carl Sagan
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Socially, I never belonged to any class, rich or poor. To the rich I was poor, and to the poor I was poor pretending to…
— John O'Hara
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One of my proudest achievements is that when an authoritative book about Hungarian literature came out about a decade ago, there was a little article…
— Tibor Fischer
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Being is like pretending.
— Mira Sorvino
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The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and…
— Malcolm Mclaren
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I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog.
— Werner Herzog
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The joy of hate reflects people who get off pretending to hate something, or hate you, in order to score political points. I call them…
— Greg Gutfeld
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There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there…
— Ade Edmondson
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