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• Tony Vigorito has grown a cult following of thousands for one reason - his stuff is fun to read... It's... filled with the freshness and the freewheeling independence that made his reputation... This book is the 'work' of one of the least pretentious and most enjoyable to read novelists at play in America today.

  Kris Saknussemm

  Fun, Book, Play

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• Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Nerd, Poor

  "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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• Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you're a bit in the public astigmatism, anything you do seems like you did it so somebody would see you do it, like showing up at the right parties.

  Tom Waits

  Party, Showing Up, Like You

  "Tom Waits: 'I'm a night-owl reporter' - a classic interview from the vaults". Interview with Richard Cromelin, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2012.

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• This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and shapes, to the human body. The embittered art of the twentieth century is perishing as a result of this ugly hate, for art is fruitless without love. In the East art has collapsed because it has been knocked down and trampled upon, but in the West the fall has been voluntary, a decline into a contrived and pretentious quest where the artist, instead of attempting to reveal the divine plan, tries to put himself in the place of God.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Hate, Fall

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• I do consider myself to be something of a pretentious wanker.

  Nicky Wire

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• Laughter tends to mock the pompous and the pretentious; all man's boastful gadding about, all his pretty pomps, his hoary customs, his wornout creeds, changing the glitter of them into the dullest hue of lead.

  Sean O'Casey

  Laughter, Men, Hue

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• Fierce language and pretentious advances are signs that the enemy is about to retreat.

  Sun Tzu

  Art Of War, Enemy, Retreat

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• This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Thinking, Sound, Ifs

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• I don't want to sound pretentious, but you could hire a bunch of monkeys to be on a TV show, and if it's successful, then everything's perfect and everybody's happy.

  Scott Caan

  Successful, Tv Shows, Perfect

  "Scott Caan Is a Sensitive Man". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. January 24, 2011.

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• Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now - to quote myself at my most pretentious - is a nimiety of scurrility with a concomitant exiguity of taste.

  Tom Lehrer

  Funny, Media, Television

  "Rhino Records" Online Chat, June 17, 1997.

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• I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Musician, Sound, Want

  "Juliana Hatfield Says Goodbye To The Stage, Hello To Art School". Middle Mojo Interview, middlemojo.com.

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• When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.

  Irvine Welsh

  Character, Political, Trainspotting

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• The best artists are people who don't consider themselves artists, and the people who do are usually the most pretentious and annoying. They've got their priorities wrong. They're just doing it to be artists rather than because they want to do it.

  Aphex Twin

  Artist, People, Priorities

  Interview with Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com.

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• Poets, on the face of it, have either got to be easier or to write their own notes; readers have either got to take more trouble over reading or cease to regard notes as pretentious and a sign of bad poetry

  William Empson

  Reading, Writing, Faces

  William Empson (2000). “The complete poems”, Lane, Allen

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• I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.

  James Herbert

  Trying, Too Much, Dread

  "From the archive: James Herbert on rats and redemption". Interview with Andrew Billen, www.theguardian.com. 1993.

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• I hate the whole group of artists who are so hermetic and completely indecipherable on some level and they're all proud of themselves for it. It's like, how obnoxious, how pretentious. And that's part of my mission as an artist is to kick down those people or make fun of that type of high horse attitude.

  Wayne White

  Horse, Fun, Attitude

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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• Part of the fun of the movie is understanding exactly why we called it Prometheus. And also, it sounds really pretentious, like Inception, so we were just like, "Yeah, that makes the movie sound really smart!" It's so much better then my original title, Explosion. Well, there might be an explosion in the movie.

  Damon Lindelof

  Fun, Smart, Understanding

  "Comic-con 2011: Charlize Theron & Damon Lindelof Interview Prometheus". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 22, 2011.

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• I can't see any reason why a film shouldn't be stylized and visually beautiful. I don't think a beautiful set is pretentious.

  Alain Resnais

  Beautiful, Thinking, Reason Why

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You can write a song about a girl or you can write a song about walking down the shops, and it's fine. I just try and do something as meaningful as I can without trying to be a pretentious loser because it's genuinely just how I see things.

  Matt Corby

  Girl, Meaningful, Song

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• There are some people I've met and it's stressful just speaking to them, because they're really pretentious and I don't know how to talk to them without being pretentious back.

  Frankie Cosmos

  People, Stressful, Mets

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I feel like this thing [that] we're rocking back and forth like we're stuck in a snow bank and we all sort of know it. I feel like people are getting less and less pretentious and less and less hip - hopefully.

  Justin Vernon

  People, Snow, Hips

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When you approach it, and I hate sounding like the pretentious actor, but yeah, I think you have to find things within the character that are likeable, or at least human, and not to go at it with any sort of predetermined notions as to what that character is.

  Steve Carell

  Hate, Character, Thinking

  "Steve Carell, Allison Janney Interview, The Way Way Back". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. July, 2013.

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• For many, many years I wouldn't sing 'My Way.' It seemed pretentious for me to sing [my father's] song 'My Way.' Now it must be in the show to help us tell the story.

  Frank Sinatra, Jr.

  Song, Father, Years

  "A recent interview with Frank Sinatra Jr., who died this week". Interview with Mike Holtzclaw, www.dailypress.com. March 17, 2016.

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• I feel like so many people get into that place where creating for someone else is selling out and it is so not about that. It is a stupid, kind of pretentious way of thinking.

  Thomston

  Stupid, Thinking, Creating

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• I've been accused of being pretentious and insufferable, and I don't really know what I can say about that. I never got good grades in school, but I did read the dictionary for fun. That was just the kind of stuff that I liked to do. I can't apologize for that.

  Mara Wilson

  Fun, School, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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