Pretending Quotes - Page 11

• Well as much as I'm sure the people next door who are pretending they aren't looking at me would like to hear what I have to say, I'd rather say it to just you.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Doors, People, Next

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• You and your scars. Please! You don't kill youself like this!" I gesture, holding a wrist turned up to the ceiling, then pretending to cut across it with my other hand. "That's just a cry for help. That's just attention. Everbody knows that. Cutting across just gets you to the hospital. That's just from movies and TV shows and stuff like that. You didn't really try to kill yourself. you just wanted attention, but you screwed up. Try harder next time.

  Barry Lyga

  Cutting, Hands, Tv Shows

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• My life and most people's lives are a series of little miracles -- strange coincidences which spring from uncontrollable impulses and give rise to incomprehensible dreams. We spend a lot of time pretending that we are normal, but underneath the surface each one of us knows that he or she is unique.

  Colin Clark

  Dream, Spring, Unique

  Colin Clark (2011). “My Week with Marilyn”, p.9, Weinstein Books

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• Human humour often consists of pretending to wish something does not really wish.

  Katherine Applegate

  Wish, Doe, Humour

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• I don’t like doing interviews. I’m not pretending to be some super neurotic, hiding in my closet. I could care less about anybody knowing who I am, but I realize this is part of the game. Maybe if I really hated this whole public thing, I would go do plays in Hoboken.

  Jared Leto

  Who I Am, Games, Play

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• If no one figures out you are pretending to be retarded, your life will be greeted with treasure.

  Eugene Mirman

  Treasure, Retarded, Figures

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• It is amazing how pretending to be in a different faction changes everything -- even the way I walk. That must be why it's so strange that I could easily belong in three of them.

  Veronica Roth

  Different, Three, Way

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• Church was doing what he often did when dropped - lying on his back with all four legs in the air, pretending to be dead in order to induce guilt in his owners.

  Cassandra Clare

  Lying, Air, Order

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• When banks place credits into your account, they are merely pretending to lend you money. In reality, they have nothing to lend. Even the money that non-indebted depositors have placed with them was originally created out of nothing in response to someone else's loan. So what entitles the banks to collect rent on nothing? It is immaterial that men everywhere are forced by law to accept these nothing certificates in exchange for real goods and services. We are talking here not about what is legal, but what is moral.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Real, Men, Talking

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• You will love again, people say. Give it time. Me with time running out. Day after day of the everyday. What they call real life, made of eighth-inch gauge. Newness strutting around as if it were significant. Irony, neatness and rhyme pretending to be poetry. I want to go back to that time after Michiko's death when I cried every day among the trees. To the real. To the magnitude of pain, of being that much alive.

  Jack Gilbert

  Running, Pain, Real

  Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992”, p.13, Knopf

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• I'm not for pretending that bad stuff doesn't exist, and a passion for justice and truth is a libertarian trait. But the idea of liberty should also reveal new forms of beauty in the world, astonishing evidence of order without dictate, lovely examples of innovation without planning, and other magical things. Surely these deserve some attention too.

  Jeffrey Tucker

  Passion, Order, Ideas

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• If I go on talking and talking...and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don't forget, but you bear it better.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Talking, Goes On, Bears

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.23, Xist Publishing

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• I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real.

  Fred Melamed

  Real, Moving, Character

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• The human condition is all about us pretending to be something sometimes that we're not. When you get into the core of people kind of stripping all of that away, that's for me, as an actor, always the most fun stuff to do.

  Charlize Theron

  Fun, People, Actors

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• I'm tired of pretending I'm not special.

  Charlie Sheen

  Tired, Special, I'm Tired

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

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• I'm from really humble beginnings. I've never been this Hollywood diva, but you get caught up in what you're pretending to be.

  Heidi Montag

  Humble, Hollywood, Caught

  "Heidi Montag: Reality show and plastic surgery infamy like a 'lifelong sentence'", www.foxnews.com. August 3, 2012.

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• My breathing was shallow and my hands were fists. 'Oh, yes, I'm going to have to kill you Barrons.' I said coolly, Partly because, for the most miniscule sliver of an instant, while looking at those handcuffs, I'd imagined myself climbing back into bed and pretending I wasn't cured yet.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Climbing, Hands, Breathing

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.709, Dell

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• A kid under a tablecloth insists he’s a ghost. A table underneath a tablecloth is, I guess, like the rest of us, only pretending to be invisible.

  Richard Siken

  Kids, Tables, Ghost

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• It is a mark of the depth of their wounding that they are pretending they suspected it all along. Everything that they have seen and been told about love so far has been an inside perspective, and they are not prepared for the crashing weight of this exclusion. It dawns on them now how much they never saw and how little they were wanted, and with this dawning comes a painful re-imagining of the self as peripheral, uninvited, and utterly minor.

  Eleanor Catton

  Self, Perspective, Dawn

  Eleanor Catton (2009). “The Rehearsal”

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• I'm the one not caring. I'm the one pretending the Earth isn't shattering all around me because I don't want it to be. I don't want to know there was an earthquake in Missouri. I don't want to know the Midwest can die, also, that what's going on isn't just tides and tsunamis. I don't want to have any more to be afraid of. I didn't start this diary for it to be a record of death.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Caring, Earthquakes, Diaries

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I believe humankind has looked at Climate Change in that same way: as if it were a fiction, happening to someone else’s planet, as if pretending that Climate Change wasn’t real would somehow make it go away.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Real, Believe, Going Away

  "Leonardo DiCaprio at the UN: 'Climate change is not hysteria - it's a fact" by Leonardo DiCaprio, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2014.

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• Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A.; if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.

  Emily Mortimer

  Exercise, People, Pills

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• Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present.

  Paul Fussell

  Past, History, Understanding

  Paul Fussell (1990). “Thank God for the Atom Bomb, and Other Essays”

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• Because of jealousy you are in constant suffering; you become mean to others. And because of jealousy you start becoming phony, because you start pretending. You start pretending things that you don't have, you start pretending things which you CAN'T have, which are not natural to you. You become more and more artificial. Imitating others, competing with others, what else can you do? If somebody has something and you don't have it, and you don't have a natural possibility of having it, the only way is to have some cheap substitute for it.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Mean, Suffering

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• There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

  Liu Shaoqi

  Leadership, Past, Pigs

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