Pretending Quotes - Page 19

• There's a girl across the bar, I get the message she's sending. Mmm, she ain't looking too married, and me, well, I'm pretending.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Girl, Infidelity, Bars

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• I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.

  Calvin Harris

  Perception, Sometimes, Wells

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

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• Yeah, pretending to ride a horse is actually a lot harder than riding a horse.

  Josh Hopkins

  Horse, Riding, Yeah

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• The longer I'm alive, the more I realize how little I know. Pretending that you know everything about every topic, and being very vocal about it? That's an instant turnoff.

  Jennifer Morrison

  Alive, Littles, Topics

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

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• There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer.

  Tom Petty

  Beer, Rock And Roll, Magic

  Song: Money Becomes King, Album: The Last DJ

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• One night love affair, pretending we don't care, and now we're left with nothing.

  Bryan Adams

  Sex, Night, Care

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• When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event.

  Nicole Richie

  Design, Events, Looks

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• Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.

  Francis Spufford

  Common Sense, Culture, Demand

  Francis Spufford (2012). “Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense”, p.8, Faber & Faber

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• I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.

  Donna Summer

  Want, Private Life

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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

  Source: collider.com

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• Pretending you are not in love with someone only delays the time of you getting over them.

  Jasmine V

  Delay

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• Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.

  T. H. White

  Children, Comforting, Degradation

  T.H. White (2012). “The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King”, p.12, University of Texas Press

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• Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy to finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one area where I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter, and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Daughter, Determination, Rocks

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• I distinctly remember watching Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot, and my parents were discussing the fact that hes an actor. To me, it was a foreign concept. I was like, Someone is pretending to do that? Thats so awesome! After that, it just stayed in the back of my mind.

  Dominique McElligott

  Feet, Parent, Mind

  "Dominique McElligott HELL ON WHEELS Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 05, 2011.

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• Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.

  Benjamin Stillingfleet

  Lying, Men, Atheism

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• My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

  Meryl Streep

  Success, People, Role Models

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• When you play a character that's someone real, when you're playing a true story, it's really great, 'cause you're not pretending to make up some silly thing.

  Michael Madsen

  Real, Silly, Character

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm tired of pretending like I'm not bitching, a total fricking rock star from Mars...

  Charlie Sheen

  Stars, Tired, Rocks

  "Charlie Sheen interview: 'You can't process me with a normal brain'". www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2011.

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• The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can actually trick yourself into feeling better.

  Charles de Lint

  Sometimes, Good Mood, Mood

  "Memory and Dream". Book by Charles de Lint, 1994.

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• When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending you can use machinery that thinks faster than you do. An electric typewriter is ready to go before I have anything to say.

  Andy Rooney

  Writing, Thinking, Typewriters

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.94, PublicAffairs

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• We play make believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously--to love each other, hate each other--but then--it isn't true. It isn't true, we don't care at all!

  Ugo Betti

  Hate, Believe, Play

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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• Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Kings, Virtue, Pretension

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• Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.

  Anthony Burgess

  Doctors, Physicians, Credit

  Nothing Like the Sun (1964)

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• Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

  John Hurt

  Business, Essence, Games

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2000.

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• Do not try to drive pain away by pretending it is not real. If you seek serenity in oneness, pain will vanish of its own accord.

  Sengcan

  Pain, Real, Oneness

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