Faking It Quotes

• The worst crime is faking it.

  Kurt Cobain

  Music, Fake People, Jazz

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• I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

  Roger Angell

  Baseball, Player, Want

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• Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that everyone is faking it.

  Nora Ephron

  Believe, People, Sometimes

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Heartburn”, p.83, Hachette UK

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• I come from a pop background, but I'm also a Puerto Rican and I do feel this music. My approach to salsa is a humble one, and I defy anybody to prove that I'm faking it.

  Marc Anthony

  Humble, Salsa, Pops

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Positivity, Coaching, Wearing A Mask

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• Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it.

  Robert Orben

  Speech, Emotion, Honest

  "A Little Night Humor" by Leslie Berger, The Washington Post, C1, January 28, 1982.

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• Being who you are is a lot easier than faking it.

  Adam Lambert

  Easier, Who You Are

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• Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you. Don't let the 'business' change what it is you love because the people, the fans, respond to what is heartfelt. They can always tell when a singer is faking it.

  George Jones

  Real, Love Is, Voice

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• Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don't have a conscience. I say them.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Stupid, People, Mind

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.25, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Sometimes I wake up at night and go, 'Oh, damn! Here we go again! What were they thinking? They gave me this role; don't they know I'm faking it?

  Renee Zellweger

  Thinking, Night, Insecurity

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• Powerful people do not have good listening skills. They hate to listen. They succeed by getting good at faking it ... If you're an extrovert, you think while you're talking. And it's impossible to listen to someone if you are thinking of the next thing you want to say.

  Penelope Trunk

  Powerful, Hate, Thinking

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• As long as we are faking it we are just showing the world how to fake it - but they already are! They want to see us get real.

  Louie Giglio

  Real, Long, Fake

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• The worst crime I could think of would be to pull people off by faking it, pretending as if I'm having 100% fun.

  Kurt Cobain

  Fun, Thinking, People

  "10 years ago today, Kurt Cobain took his life. What part of him lives on in music? In his fans? And then there's Courtney" by James Sullivan, www.sfgate.com. April 5, 2004.

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• I feel like every time I walk into the audition room, they can tell if you're faking it and if your heart's really not with it. So I try to keep it as real as possible.

  Jennifer Damiano

  Real, Heart, Trying

  "Get Advice From Broadway Star, Jen Damiano!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. July 14, 2009.

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• I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it.

  Wendell Pierce

  Practice, Two, Littles

  "Wendell Pierce: Everyone's Favorite Fake Trombone Player". Interview with Patrick Jarenwattananon, www.npr.org. July 4, 2011.

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• It's okay to cry as long as you're faking it.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Long, Cry, Okay

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Content in a way he’d rarely been before Mercy, he simply stroked her until she purred. It delighted him as it always did. “I made you purr.” A lazy yawn. “I’m faking it.

  Nalini Singh

  Lazy, Way, Mercy

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Tangle of Need: A Psy-Changeling Novel”, p.152, Penguin

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• Since we’re playing that game… I tilted my face up to his and gave him a lovesick gaze. “Do you have to sneeze?” he asked. “Be quiet. I’m pretending to enjoy your company, just as you said.” “Try not to strain anything.” “Oh, I won’t. I’m very good at faking it.” That shut him up.

  Ilona Andrews

  Games, Trying, Faces

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels”, p.133, Penguin

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• In my mind that's the best thing I can do for my girl, is to love my body and the way I look. That's what I sort of decided when she was young. And so it's sort of about faking it until you can make it.

  Lauren Bowles

  Girl, Mind, Looks

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• I'm someone who can provide an intellectual framework, but I can't tell people who are trying to sell Product X how to do that because I don't know, and I would be faking it if I attempted to step into that role.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  People, Intellectual, Trying

  "Online Extra: Q&A with Malcolm Gladwell". Interview with Gerry Khermouch, www.bloomberg.com. July 30, 2001.

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• Now? I'm just another female faking orgasms to make a man not feel so inadequate.

  Jess C Scott

  Men, Female, Feels

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• For me, to represent people who represent the future of Canada and the great challenges we will face over the coming decades - this is where I wanted to start. I'm a teacher; I'm a convenor; I'm a gatherer; I'm someone who reaches out to people and is deeply interested in what they have to say. And people see that I'm not faking it. I'm actually genuinely committed to this dialogue that we're opening up, and this understanding that needs to happen in order to be an effective MP.

  Justin Trudeau

  Teacher, Order, Mps

  "Trudeau Wins Montreal Riding Nomination". www.cbc.ca. April 29, 2007.

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• When I was 15, what I wanted in a boyfriend was just that confidence and swagger. I wanted someone who knew what he was doing, because I was just faking it. What I want for my daughter is the exact opposite.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Daughter, Opposites, Swagger

  "Raped by Statute". www.salon.com. April 25, 2005.

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• I'm lucky enough to be able to make only movies I'm interested in seeing. That has to be an instinctive thrust. The audience knows when you're faking it. They can hang any kind of moniker they want on me.

  Tom Hanks

  Lucky, Want, Able

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• You should have the opportunity to be more than one person with different people because you have that within you. It's not like you're faking it. If everyone knows you so well and can always get a hold of you, then you're stuck to this thing that people think you are. You should have the opportunity to reinvent yourself. Because you do. Naturally.

  Kristen Stewart

  Opportunity, Thinking, Should Have

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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