Pretending Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• 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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• I don't ever want to be bored, doing the same thing from 9 to 5. I've always loved pretending and being someone different.

  Liana Liberato

  Bored, Different, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• The censors were great. There's always back and forth. But it's 'Hostel 2', it's not 'Happy Feet 2'. Everybody knows what Hostel is and people that are going to see it are going for more of what they loved in the original. No one is accidentally going to walk into it, no parent is accidentally going to take their child, and we're not pretending what it is in the advertising. We're saying it's very violent, it's very scary and a continuation of the first one.

  Eli Roth

  Children, Feet, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.

  Willem Dafoe

  Adventure, Different, Actors

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. September 25, 2007.

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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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• If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me.

  Alan Watts

  Wake Up, Littles, Poor

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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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• Embracing new things often requires us to embrace our fears, however trivial they may seem. You deal with fear not by pretending it doesn't exist, but by refusing to give it decision-making authority.

  Chris Guillebeau

  Giving, Decision, May

  Chris Guillebeau (2014). “The Happiness of Pursuit: Find the Quest that will Bring Purpose to Your Life”, p.35, Pan Macmillan

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• That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Acting, Pretending To Be Someone Else

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

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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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• I remember when I was a teenager thinking my girlfriend was cheating on me, and going around riling myself up. Pretending to cry. It was totally illegitimate-I actually didn't feel anything. I went to some pub and then went crying all the way home. And I got into my dog's bed. I was crying and holding on to the dog. I woke up in the morning, and the dog was looking at me like, 'You're a fake.'

  Robert Pattinson

  Dog, Cheating, Girlfriend

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• I've always been interested in the form itself, so I always feel like I've never been good at going ahead with the artifice and not acknowledging the self in the artistic process, and not acknowledging the absurdity of pretending that's required in fiction.

  Dave Eggers

  Self, Fiction, Artistic

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 23, 2005.

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• Smaug certainly looked asleep, almost dead and dark, with scarcely a snore more than a whiff of unseen steam, when Bilbo peeped once more from the entrance. He was just about to step out onto the floor when he caught a sudden thin ray of red from under the drooping lid of Smaug's left eye. He was only pretending to sleep! He was watching the tunnel entrance!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Sleep, Eye, Dark

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• When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get over it as opposed to pretending everything's okay and dragging it out.

  Hannah Simone

  Sad, Breakup, Should

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• God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.

  John Donne

  Atheist, Men, Thinking

  John Donne, John E. Booty (1990). “John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions, and Prayers”, p.141, Paulist Press

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• How many of you think it is time for American to stop pretending we are not Christian? If there's people in King, North Carolina who don't like that, there's lots of places you can move to.

  David Gene Gibbs

  Christian, Kings, Moving

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• China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.

  Michael A. Ledeen

  Civilization, China, Nations

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• That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people.

  Andy Samberg

  People, Strange, Phenomenon

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 01, 2007.

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• When you focus on how people feel about what they are saying, you increase the level of true concern you have for others. You actually start to become the person you thought you were pretending to be: a true leader!

  Garrison Wynn

  People, Focus, Leader

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• Wall Street's favorite scam is pretending that luck is skill.

  Ronald Ross

  Wall, Skills, Luck

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• It is a part of the function of "law" to give recognition to ideas representing the exact opposite of established conduct. Most of the complications arise from the necessity of pretending to do one thing, while actually doing another.

  Thurman Arnold

  Government, Law, Opposites

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