Pretending Quotes - Page 13

• In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone "come out" to you is the "pretending to be surprised" part.

  Tina Fey

  Hardest, Hardest Thing

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• I have come to think that money is very much like a person, and it will respond when you treat it as you would a cherished friend - never fearing it, pushing it away, pretending it doesn't exist, or turning away from its needs, never clutching it so hard that it hurts. ... if you tend it like the living entity it is, then it will flourish, grow, take care of you for as long as you need it.

  Suze Orman

  Money, Hurt, Thinking

  Suze Orman (1999). “The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom: Practical and Spiritual Steps So You Can Stop Worrying”, p.15, Crown Business

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• Pretending the past doesn't exist is as bad as living in it.

  Nora Roberts

  Past

  Nora Roberts (1995). “Hidden Riches”, p.9, Penguin

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• You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

  Josephine Tey

  Tin Cans, Tails, Denial

  Josephine Tey (1998). “The Franchise Affair”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it's hard to go on pretending that you're still dead.

  John Burdett

  Light, Coffins, Goes On

  "Bangkok Haunts". Book by John Burdett, 2007.

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• A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability.

  Ivan Klíma

  Photography, Kissing, Records

  Ivan Klíma, Paul Wilson (2006). “Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light”, p.93, Grove Press

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• Worse than thieves, murderers, or cannibals, those who offer compromise slow you and sap your vitality while pretending to be your friends. They are not your friends. Compromisers are the enemies of all humanity, the enemies of life itself. Compromisers are the enemies of everything important, sacred, and true.

  L. Neil Smith

  Humanity, Enemy, Important

  "Am I the NRA?". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. January 14, 2007.

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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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• If no one on the movie has met me before or knows me, that's the easiest. I don't do a lot of things that don't relate to being the person. I will try to keep it going for my other actors. I want them to do the least amount of pretending as possible.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Trying, Actors, Want

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Pretending is the grease of non-relationships. Pretending is how you and I get through the day without ever having to know each other. When I walk in the room, you say to me, 'How are you?' Well, you don't want to know. And, frankly, I don't want to tell you. So I just say, 'Fine,' and you go, 'Fine.' And off we go.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Grease, Want, Rooms

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• If success in selling is my primary interest, I am not primarily a writer, but a salesperson. If I teach success in selling as the writer's primary objective, I am not teaching writing; I'm teaching, or pretending to teach, the production and marketing of a commodity.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Teaching, Writing, Marketing

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination”, p.253, Shambhala Publications

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• Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde!

  Anne Rice

  Vampire, Avant Garde, Humans

  "Interview With The Vampire". Book by Anne Rice, 1976.

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• Acting in general you just feel kind of stupid doing it anyway, but when you're pretending to be rolling around and dodging a foot or riding an ant, you're having to really do it seriously and there's nothing there. You've got to put faith in the process.

  Paul Rudd

  Stupid, Feet, Acting

  "ANT-MAN Set Visit: Paul Rudd Talks Suiting Up, Rewrites, and More". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. June 22, 2015.

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• The news is disease in disguise pretending to be information.

  Vanna Bonta

  News, Disease, Information

  "Degrees: Thought Capsules (Poems) and Micro Tales on Life, Death, Man, Woman, & Art". Book by Vanna Bonta, September 1, 1989.

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• When I made the decision to transition, I honestly had no idea what it would be like for me to live as female. The only thing I knew for sure was that pretending to be male was slowly killing me.

  Julia Serano

  Ideas, Decision, Males

  Julia Serano (2016). “Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity”, p.50, Seal Press

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• I think for any actor to say they don't like attention is ridiculous. Of course we love attention. But getting attention is different than pretending the attention means something.

  Ellen Pompeo

  Mean, Thinking, Attention

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• I like hard work and I don’t like pretending things are perfect.

  Amy Poehler

  Hard Work, Perfect, Hard

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.1, Pan Macmillan

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• I really try as hard as I can on the show. If people can't see my face, if they can't see my sweat beads or at least that I'm struggling, that I'm not just pretending or going through the motions, then who can blame them for thinking that it's some kind of ridiculous piss-take?

  John Maus

  Struggle, Thinking, Sweat

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's agethat familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth oridentity and pretend to be part of a more favored group. Fair-skinned blacks invented "passing" as a term, Jews escaping anti-Semitism perfected the art, and the sexual closet continues the punishment, but pretending to be a younger age is probably the most encouraged form of "passing," with the least organized support for "coming out" as one's true generational self.

  Gloria Steinem

  Art, Lying, Thinking

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• I had a deliberate plan to get into movies by becoming a model, so I went to New York and got a job pretending to be a mannequin in store windows.

  Geena Davis

  Jobs, New York, Becoming

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• I don't ever want to be bored, doing the same thing from 9 to 5. I've always loved pretending and being someone different.

  Liana Liberato

  Bored, Different, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church, some Schelling or Cousin, I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour. I am as bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain. He has just foreclosed his freedom, tied his hands, locked himself up and given the key to another to keep.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cousin, Truth, Opportunity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.191, Harvard University Press

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• In New York, pretending to be above the struggle means no seat on the bus and a table next to the kitchen.

  Mason Cooley

  New York, Struggle, Mean

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• If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon the authority of some passage of Scripture wrested to their purpose, to condemn and censure my hypothesis, I value them not, and scorn their inconsiderate judgement.
  De Revolutionibus Coelestibus

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Skills, Judgement, Ignorant

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