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• I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process.

  Steve Carell

  Self, Talking, Comedy

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• Tony Vigorito has grown a cult following of thousands for one reason - his stuff is fun to read... It's... filled with the freshness and the freewheeling independence that made his reputation... This book is the 'work' of one of the least pretentious and most enjoyable to read novelists at play in America today.

  Kris Saknussemm

  Fun, Book, Play

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• This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Thinking, Sound, Ifs

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• I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.

  James Herbert

  Trying, Too Much, Dread

  "From the archive: James Herbert on rats and redemption". Interview with Andrew Billen, www.theguardian.com. 1993.

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• I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.

  Pete Townshend

  Believe, Writing, Years

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• I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.

  Justin Timberlake

  Trying, Sound, Albums

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• I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface.

  David O. Russell

  Hate, Real, Character

  "The Fighter: David O. Russell Interview". Interview with Tom Butler, www.ign.com. February 8, 2011.

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• In the Lamborghini I have to avoid certain roads because of pot holes, and there's nowhere to put my drink, no cup holder. And I'm not going to lie, it looks pretentious. I used to think it was cool to, like, drive it to dinner. Now? Like I really need to be looked at any more.

  Danica Patrick

  Lying, Thinking, Lamborghini

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• I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.

  Yoko Ono

  Thinking, People, Giving

  "Yoko Ono at 80: 'I feel that I am starting a new life, a second life'" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2013.

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• I must have been a really pretentious little girl.

  Emily Mortimer

  Girl, Littles, Has Beens

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• When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music.

  Moby

  Growing Up, Book, Obscure

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• I never want to be pretentious.

  Kesha

  Want

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

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• I don't want to sound too silly or pretentious about this, but, you know, I love being in Paris. I love working at Louis Vuitton. I love fashion. That's why I do it. No one's forcing me to do this. And nobody forces anyone to buy it. It's a real love affair.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, Real, Silly

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• Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are victims of the stupid, the pretentious and the hypocritical.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Stupid, Writing, Race

  "Eighty-Five from the Archive: Dorothy Parker" by Erin Overbey, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2010.

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• Fierce language and pretentious advances are signs that the enemy is about to retreat.

  Sun Tzu

  Art Of War, Enemy, Retreat

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• But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a vegetarian again. The kind of willful forgetting that I was sure meat eating required felt too paradoxical to the intellectual life I was trying to shape. I thought life could, should, and must conform to the mold of reason. You can imagine how annoying this made me.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Philosophy, Thinking, Years

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, books.google.ru. March 4, 2010.

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• Laughter tends to mock the pompous and the pretentious; all man's boastful gadding about, all his pretty pomps, his hoary customs, his wornout creeds, changing the glitter of them into the dullest hue of lead.

  Sean O'Casey

  Laughter, Men, Hue

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• I don't want to sound pretentious, but you could hire a bunch of monkeys to be on a TV show, and if it's successful, then everything's perfect and everybody's happy.

  Scott Caan

  Successful, Tv Shows, Perfect

  "Scott Caan Is a Sensitive Man". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. January 24, 2011.

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• The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons; pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato croquettes, tinned peas in tiny jam-tart cases, watery gooseberry sauce; trifle made with a resinous wine, so jammy that all my teeth lit up at once.

  Anthony Burgess

  Wine, Vegetables, Meals

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• No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate consideration of any advice that he may receive; and nothing so fully reveals his incapacity as a pretentious assumption of knowledge, claiming to understand everything.

  John B. Jervis

  Hard Work, Knowledge, Science

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• The point is seeing that THIS - the immediate, everyday and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe. I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter.

  Alan Watts

  Happiness, Laughter, Believe

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• Anyone without a sense of humor is too pretentious to be a good magician.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Sense Of Humor, Magician

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• Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, People, Trying

  Charles Bukowski (1978). “Women”

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• I took a bite of cookie and chewed. “Hmmm,” I said, trying not to spit crumbs. “Clear vanilla notes, too-sweet chocolate chips, distinct flavor of brown sugar. A decent cookie, not spectacular. Still, a good-hearted cookie, not pretentious.” I turned to Fang. “What say you?” “It’s fine.” Some people just don’t have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.

  James Patterson

  Sweet, People, Appreciate

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• If anyone stops us, as long as we mumble something pretentious about the glory of death, we should be fine.

  Derek Landy

  Long, Glory, Should

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