Pretending Quotes - Page 22

• Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.

  Stanley Tucci

  Character, Play, People

  "Alice Eve and Stanley Tucci Talk SOME VELVET MORNING, Making a Movie in One Space with Two Actors, 1:30 TRAIN, CATCHING FIRE and More". Interview with Perri Nemiroff, collider.com. December 12, 2013.

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• The sociopaths - that's the real problem. The whole street demeanor is about pretending to be a sociopath as well so that the real ones can't find you.

  Mat Johnson

  Real, Problem, Sociopath

  Mat Johnson (2015). “Loving Day: A Novel”, p.6, Spiegel & Grau

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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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• 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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• My Father taught me to weigh my words carefully, and speak up only when I had something insightful to add to the proceedings, or something really funny to say. He also taught me that if I couldn’t be that kind of guy in real life, that I could earn a healthy living pretending to be that guy in the movies – particularly when paired up with a long haired stoner.

  Kevin Smith

  Father, Real, Long

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• I've got three kids. I worry about them but the gospel freed me and freed my wife. We are not trying to make our kids think that we're super spiritual or we've got it all together. They see mom and dad being real people. What they hear dad talking about at home is not different from what they see from dad [at church]. That won't guarantee that they'll avoid the whole PK, MK thing. But we are hopefully not contributing to what normally produces that crisis, which is pretending.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Mom, Spiritual, Dad

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Pretending can be a bold form of experimentation and inventiveness. In pretending joy or happiness, we may discover or enhance our capacity for it.

  Harriet Lerner

  Joy, May, Form

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• We come to the nations pretending to escape persecution, we the most deadly persecutors in all the wretched annals of man.

  Samuel Roth

  Men, Persecution, Jew

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• I don't want to tell people what to think. I'm the least qualified person in the world for that. If I'd go around pretending to be the expert on everything, I'd become Dan Brown, and I don't understand that. We all do our research if we're good writers, and we all work hard to get it right, but that doesn't mean we're experts in the field. The best we can do is challenge people to learn the facts themselves.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hard Work, Mean, Thinking

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• I don't really believe in pretending to be happy when you're not. Mostly I believe that you should burden your friends with your problems.

  Barbara Park

  Friends, Believe, Problem

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• What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.

  Christina Aguilera

  Needs, Feels

  Song: Soar, Album: Stripped

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• Some reviewers have read this as cynicism but I don't see it that way. When I say "I am so sick / of pretending to be me," it's exhaustion at the everyday performance, in life, in art, even in our most intimate encounters.

  Randall Mann

  Art, Sick, Everyday

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Moral High Ground, Hypocrisy, Acting

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• My father and I used to tussle about me becoming an actor. He's from strong, Presbyterian Scottish working-class stock, and he used to sit me down and say, 'You know, 99 percent of actors are out of work. You've been educated, so why do you want to spend your life pretending to be someone else when you could be your own man?'

  Tom Hiddleston

  Strong, Father, Men

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• I'm pretending to be a vegetarian. Were I not, I believe I probably still wouldn't eat a wallaby.

  Kevin Moffett

  Believe, Vegetarian, Stills

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think ever since I was a kid I knew subconsciously that I wanted to be an actor. I would walk around the house pretending I was somewhere else.

  Kelly Blatz

  Kids, Thinking, Somewhere Else

  "Crush of the Week: Kelly Blatz". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 9, 2010.

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• I think the Republican budget priorities are messed up. I salute for the way they're attacking some of the entitlement programs, but they are taking huge cuts, by pretending they're just block-granting it to the states, out of Medicaid, from the least fortunate.

  David Brooks

  Block, Cutting, Thinking

  "Shields and Brooks on Netanyahu’s election provocation, human trafficking holdup". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. March 20, 2015.

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• The song "No Fairy Tale" tells my story. Going through the hard things leads to a richer life than just trying to make everything perfect, or worse, pretending things are good when they don't feel right. I've done that more than enough times.

  Lisa Loeb

  Song, Perfect, Trying

  "Interview with Grammy-Nominated Singer/Songwriter Lisa Loeb". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I was thinking a lot about the aftermath of bad choices, how people deal with the trauma of having survived trauma, if that makes sense, and so I wrote about this character's last day on the job, how after spending 15 years pretending to be a rabbi, he'd in effect become a rabbi.

  Tod Goldberg

  Jobs, Character, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I started out, in the mid-'70s, taking photographs of rock bands that I liked but not because I really wanted to photograph them. Initially, I was pretending to be a photographer, simply so that I could go up to the front of the crowd and be a bit closer to the bands. But, I found I was gradually developing an interest in the photos I took.

  Derek Ridgers

  Rocks, Band, Crowds

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Let's be the people who look at the hurting until we hurt with them. No hurrying past, turning away, or shifting of eyes. No pretending or glossing over. Let's look at the face until we see the person.

  Max Lucado

  Hurt, Eye, Past

  Max Lucado (2011). “Live Loved: Experiencing God's Presence in Everyday Life”, p.84, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads one toward the mystery of God. Idolatry is religion pretending that it has all the answers.

  John Shelby Spong

  Journey, Religion, Doe

  "Q&A on The Parliament of the World's Religions". Weekly mailing, September 5, 2007.

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