Pretentious Quotes

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I have no rules. For me, it's a full, full experience to make a movie. It takes a lot of time, and I want there… — David Cronenberg
I love playing all kinds of roles. I hope it doesnâ€™t sound too pretentious, but I always feel human nature is like a piano, and… — Tom Hiddleston
I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment. — Oscar Levant
I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right. — Brian May
What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies. — Peter Jackson
Getting up to dance to your own stuff looks pretty pretentious. And leaving the dancefloor when it comes on is just awkward. — Sophie Ellis Bextor
At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a comb-over.… — David Foster Wallace
... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and… — Plato
I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious, too narrow. Prose… — Blaise Cendrars
During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first few pages of… — Patricia Briggs
Do not be afraid of simplicity. If you have a cold chicken for supper, why cover it with a tasteless white sauce which makes it… — Marcel Boulestin
Whenever there remains any support for the ego within, even if it be only an atom's weight, then you are pretentious and have a devil… — Ibn Ata Allah
Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge. — Roger Deakins
Oftentimes an originator of new language forms is called 'pretentious' by jealous talents. But it ainâ€™t whatcha write, itâ€™s the way atcha write it. — Jack Kerouac
I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself. — Wale
One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then… — John Kenneth Galbraith
In the numbing hands of pretentious filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, history does not repeat itself in any way whatsoever. — Rex Reed
Contrary to what you may have heard from Henry Rollins or/and Ian MacKaye and/or anyone else who joined a band after working in an ice… — Chuck Klosterman
Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists. — Richard Thompson
It's very hard to get pretentious about beer. You can become knowledgeable and start to talk with a highfalutin' vocabulary. But you can only go… — Fritz Maytag

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