Pretending Quotes - Page 16

• Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.

  Cees Nooteboom

  Talking, Helping, Language

  "The Foxes Come at Night by Cees Nooteboom - review" by Alberto Manguel, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.

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• Well, I've just played a midwife but never for a second would I think that I could ever deliver a baby! So, to that essence, it's still pretending. But it's worked out ok so far, touch wood, because you're doing so many different things - if you're playing a lawyer or someone medical, you can dip your toe into a lot of different things.

  Christine Bottomley

  Baby, Thinking, Essence

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It was really bizarre, that Sabzian business. You know I had no interest in being photographed before this incident. But then not just Sabzian—many other people started pretending they were me! One of them actually got married while pretending he was me! My face became publicly recognizable soon after I decided to have a few photographs of me available in public to prevent these sorts of identity thefts. It is really pathetic, if you think of it. Filmmakers and filmmaking is so popular in Iran because all other forms of expression have been denied to people.

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  Thinking, Expression, Iran

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• I am in a constant state of surprise these days. Actually, now that I calculate, I've been betrothed only one full day, but it seems like my whole life has come into being in the last twenty-four hours. Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Thinking, Forever, Lasts

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• I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left

  Julian Clary

  Gay, Would Be, Substance

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• The reality is, that no matter what you do in this life, it’s coming to an end. Once you accept there’s nothing that you can do about your own mortality, then you’re now free. You have no control, so stop pretending you do. And just get on with living your life. Stop living in fear.

  Jeb Corliss

  Reality, Live Your Life, Matter

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• You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don't exist.

  Tori Amos

  Reality, Feelings, Looks

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• In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone "come out" to you is the "pretending to be surprised" part.

  Tina Fey

  Hardest, Hardest Thing

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• Pretending the past doesn't exist is as bad as living in it.

  Nora Roberts

  Past

  Nora Roberts (1995). “Hidden Riches”, p.9, Penguin

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• The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.

  Penn Jillette

  Art, Technology, World

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• I had a deliberate plan to get into movies by becoming a model, so I went to New York and got a job pretending to be a mannequin in store windows.

  Geena Davis

  Jobs, New York, Becoming

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• You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

  Josephine Tey

  Tin Cans, Tails, Denial

  Josephine Tey (1998). “The Franchise Affair”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• Being present means being completely aware of all that is. It means you’re not in denial, you’re not pretending, and you’re not avoiding.

  Debbie Ford

  Mean, Denial, Avoiding

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• Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled.

  Ted Nelson

  People, Emptiness

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• I'm tired of saying, "How wonderful you are!" to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Tired, Men, Important

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.51, Hamilton Books

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• The serious person becomes handicapped, he creates barriers. He cannot dance, he cannot sing, he cannot celebrate. The very dimension of celebration disappears from his life. He becomes desert-like. And if you are a desert, you can go on thinking and pretending that you are religious but you are not.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Thinking, Serious Person

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• He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory . . . it seems to me a telephone was installed in the coffin to someone yet again Stalin is sending his instructions.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Memories, Justice, Cracks

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• Good therapy helps. Good friends help. Pretending that we are doing better than we are doesn't. Shame doesn't. Being heard does.

  Anne Lamott

  Good Friend, Doe, Helping

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.124, Penguin

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• Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give up all desire for rest, for friendship, for the sound of human voices? Could I now reclaim a single hour spent talking to my brother, Philip, and give it to Ken Daggart? Who made it our duty to accept, as the only reward for our work, the gray torture of pretending love for those who roused nothing but contempt?

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Giving Up, Talking

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• I think that after the first time you give your heart away, you never get it back. The rest of your life is just you pretending that you still have a heart.

  Tarryn Fisher

  Love, Heart, Thinking

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• The two of them were stoic and stone-faced and ten feet apart, currently not even looking at each other, but Zuzana had the impression of a pair of magnets pretending not to be magnets. Which, you know, only works until it doesn't.

  Laini Taylor

  Love, Two, Feet

  Laini Taylor (2014). “Dreams of Gods and Monsters: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church, some Schelling or Cousin, I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour. I am as bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain. He has just foreclosed his freedom, tied his hands, locked himself up and given the key to another to keep.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cousin, Truth, Opportunity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.191, Harvard University Press

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• In New York, pretending to be above the struggle means no seat on the bus and a table next to the kitchen.

  Mason Cooley

  New York, Struggle, Mean

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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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• 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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