Pretending Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• I had these fangs because I had jaundice when I was a kid and I was put on so many antibiotics that my teeth rotted. They had to cut them out. So I never had milk teeth. That was tough, you know, being in school having photos taken while I was pretending I had teeth. It was hideous.

  Charlize Theron

  Taken, Kids, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• Humility doesn't mean hiding in the corner and pretending you are not strong. Humility means to be what you are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Mean, Humility

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• Go ahead and make up a ton of lies about me. That's way more interesting than pretending Wikipedia has any real information.

  Nick Kroll

  Real, Lying, Interesting

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The overall commentary on what I'm doing is saying, 'Hey look! I get to create whatever persona I want to, and it's all up to me. And the truth is, we are all - basically the universe - pretending to be humans for a brief moment of time. With a little self-induced amnesia.

  RuPaul

  Self, Looks, Hey

  "RuPaul: Famous, Fierce And Fashion Forward". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 2, 2012.

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• Look at us all - we are all of us lost and in all of our different ways of pretending, we all fool ourselves into the very same hell. Look at the cross - we are all of us loved and one God meets us all at the point of our common need and brings to all of us - all who will let Him - salvation.

  Rich Mullins

  Different, Needs, Looks

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• I used to hide it but after a lot of encouragement from my friends at university, I've gained the confidence to come out with it. I am the sun from Teletubbies. There has been quite a few people pretending to be 'the sun' but only I could tell you the real story. Everyone says they can see the likeness between my face now and me as a baby. I still have a baby face. I haven't changed much either. I am still giggly.

  Jess Smith

  Baby, Encouragement, Real

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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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• 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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• If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what you're talking about.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Talking, Singing, Hills

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• By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and at the same time disguise their punitive interventions in the semantic and social trappings of medical practice.

  Thomas Szasz

  Practice, Agents, Medical

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1997). “The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement”, p.167, Syracuse University Press

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• I think of the company advertising "Thought Processors" or the college pretending that learning BASIC suffices or at least helps, whereas the teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Teaching, Recovery, College

  "The threats to computing science". Edsger Dijkstra remarks at ACM South Central Regional Conference, www.cs.utexas.edu. November 16-18, 1984.

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• Sometimes a god comes.... He brings a new way to do a thing, or a new thing to be done. A new kind of singing, or a new kind of death. He brings this across the bridge between the dream-time and the world-time. When he has done this, it is done. You cannot take things that exist in the world and try to drive them back into the dream, to hold them inside the dream with walls and pretenses. That is insanity. What is, is. There is no use pretending, now, that we do not know how to kill one another.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Dream, Wall, Bridges

  "The Word for World Is Forest". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1972.

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• Naturally one would rather be a broad artist with power to evoke beauty from every phase of experience--but when one unmistakably isn't such an artist, there's no sense in bluffing and faking and pretending that one is.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Artist, Phases, Evoke

  H. P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, James Turner (1976). “Selected Letters 1934-1937”, Arkham House Publishers

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• And you have been forever, and will be forever, and all the worrisome smashings of your foot on innocent cupboard doors it was only the Void pretending to be a man pretending not to know the Void.

  Jack Kerouac

  Men, Doors, Feet

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “Desolation Angels”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• We're all a bunch of badminton birdies who just got batted from the Republican side of the court to the Democrat side. We'll eventually get batted back again, of course, unless libertarians can manage to do something about it. If your principal concern, like mine, is freedom, there's absolutely no discernable difference between the two 'majors,' and for all practical purposes, they're one big party - the Boot On Your Neck party - pretending to be two.

  L. Neil Smith

  Party, Two, Differences

  "Catching Up with L. Neil Smith". Interview with Ari Armstrong, www.freecolorado.com. December 07, 2006.

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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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• To large numbers of American citizens life in certain parts of the country becomes intolerably hazardous. They may be seized on any pretext, however flimsy, and put to death with horrible tortures. No government pretending to be civilized can go on condoning such atrocities. Either it must make every possible effort to put them down or it must suffer the scorn and contempt of Christendom.

  H. L. Mencken

  Country, Government, Lynching

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• I go from locker to locker, pretending the guys are here. You know, give them a little bit of a pep talk. It must be working, because we haven't lost a game yet.

  Tom McVie

  Hockey, Nhl, Games

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