Pretending Quotes - Page 29

• Acting is not pretending or lying. It's finding a side of yourself that's the character and ignoring your other sides. And there's a side of me that wonders what's wrong with being completely honest.

  Angelina Jolie

  Lying, Character, Acting

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• Hope is not pretending that troubles don't exist. It is the trust that they will not last forever, that hurts will be healed and difficulties overcome. It is faith that a source of strength and renewal lies within to lead us through the dark into the sunshine.

  Liz Chase

  Hurt, Lying, Sunshine

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• The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Meaningful, Artist, Holes

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• I spent part of my college years in a Marxist commune. I was not a Marxist. I wasn't even pretending to be one. I was a Marxist-in-law.

  Jane Smiley

  College, Years, Law

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 4, 2007.

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• I like the fact that I have two names because I find that in this industry you have to have dual personalities especially being a transitional entertainer, being an actor going into music. It's not that I'm pretending to be somebody else but it's just that the people that I act with, the Directors, Producers and Agents, can't really relate to what I talk about.

  Drake

  Names, Two, People

  Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. July 12, 2006.

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• As long as you don't think he's just pretending not to mind for your sake, it sounds like he has truly accepted that blow jobs are too difficult and painful for you to perform, and he's still very satisfied with your sex life. Take him at his word.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Sex, Jobs, Blow

  "Open Shut Case" by Mallory Ortberg, www.slate.com. December 22, 2015.

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• A magician is only an actor - an actor pretending to be a magician.

  Harry Houdini

  Actors, Magician

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• There's a saying that you can't awaken somebody who's pretending to be asleep.

  Willie Parker

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• Look at all the stuff the Existentialists did. You can start with [Pablo] Picasso, you know, and then Francis Bacon and other guys like that. What they were doing is depicting suffering. And that's exactly what a demon is, he's pretending that he isn't. So he can get more people down there. You know, misery loves company, that's the whole thing. So that's basically the pitch that I'm working on.

  Paul Laffoley

  People, Guy, Suffering

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

  John Fowles

  Corny, Duty, Critical

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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• Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.

  James Gandolfini

  Pants, Grows

  "James Gandolfini in His Own Words" by Christopher Rosa, www.mtv.com. June 20, 2013.

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• Love is being honest with yourself at all times being honest with the other person at all times telling, listening, respecting the truth and never pretending Love is the source of reality

  Susan Polis Schutz

  Love, Reality, Listening

  Susan Polis Schutz, Stephen Schutz (2007). “To My Daughter with Love: On the Important Things in Life”, p.22, Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.

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• There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.

  Desmond Tutu

  Waking, Difficult

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• We'll all grow up Meg, no pretending we won't.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Growing Up, Meg, Grows

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• Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to be unconscious. That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan.

  David Sedaris

  Relationship, Sex, Passion

  "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim". Book by David Sedaris, June 1, 2004.

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• After I got my coffee, I leaned against a stop sign and sipped, pretending it was a normal day and I was only up this early so that I could go running and not because I'd just been on a killing spree.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Running, Coffee, Normal

  Augusten Burroughs (2004). “Magical Thinking: True Stories”, p.70, Macmillan

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• I may not look like much, but I'm an expert at pretending to be a ninja.

  Darynda Jones

  Experts, Looks, May

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.306, St. Martin's Press

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• I love you,” she whispered. He stroked his hand down her back. “Yep, you do.” “You’re supposed to say it back,” she said, pretending to be offended because the silliness kept the fear/hope at bay. “Why?” He scowled down at her. “You know you’re my heartbeat.

  Nalini Singh

  Love You, Hands, Heartbeat

  Nalini Singh (2008). “Mine to Possess”, p.319, Penguin

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• How do you know it won't be duels at dawn when you tell him you've accepted my proposal of marriage?" "Don't be ridiculous. He's not that hotheaded. Though I daresay he may try to...er...knock some sense into you. He and Jarret. And possibly Gabe." "Our bargain is looking better and better all the time," he said drily. "I get to fight the Sharpe men while you stand around pretending to care." He came close enough to whisper, "I will definitely require a few kisses of you if that comes to pass, minx." -Giles and Minerva

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Fighting, Kissing, Men

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• Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don't know.

  George R. R. Martin

  Thinking, Brave, Sometimes

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1983, Bantam

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• Since we’re playing that game… I tilted my face up to his and gave him a lovesick gaze. “Do you have to sneeze?” he asked. “Be quiet. I’m pretending to enjoy your company, just as you said.” “Try not to strain anything.” “Oh, I won’t. I’m very good at faking it.” That shut him up.

  Ilona Andrews

  Games, Trying, Faces

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels”, p.133, Penguin

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• Look, he isn’t even concerned.” I poured the tea. “He’s concerned, Mother. He just doesn’t panic, because he’s in charge and if he panics, everybody else will panic.” “I can jog around the room pretending to scream if you would like,” Jim offered.

  Ilona Andrews

  Mother, Tea, Looks

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Dreams: A Penguin Special from Ace”, p.21, Penguin

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• The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by ‘the veil of familiarity.’ The child enjoys his cold meat, otherwise dull to him, by pretending it is buffalo, just killed with his own bow and arrow. And the child is wise. The real meat comes back to him more savory for having been dipped in a story…by putting bread, gold, horse, apple, or the very roads into a myth, we do not retreat from reality: we rediscover it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Horse, Children

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “Image and Imagination”, p.108, Cambridge University Press

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• We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Design

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Let me tell you humans something. You are not fighters. You don’t have what it takes to actually change your current living situations. You can’t even organize a decent group to combat oppression. How can beings of such low stature hope to do anything? You are not heroes. Stop pretending you are helping by playing commando and get out of the way of someone who can.

  Charles Lee

  Hero, Groups, Way

  Charles Lee (2014). “The Way To Dawn: Dominion of Eden”, p.85, BookBaby

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