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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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• The Buddhist, who thanks no man, who says "Do not flatter your benefactors," but who, in his conviction that every good deed can by no possibility escape its reward, will not deceive the benefactor by pretending that he has done more than he should, is a Transcendentalist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Karma, Buddhist, Buddhism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.92, Penguin

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• Oh, I know. They’re dwarfs pretending to be elves. No, they’re not dwarfs either. Okay, okay, they’re “little people,” I’m sorry! Can’t believe I have to be politically correct when you’re the only one who can hear me.

  Kevin Hearne

  Sorry, Believe, People

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.273, Del Rey

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• An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Personality, Nails, Needs

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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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• 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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• First, Know well that Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is not real because it is not yours; it is borrowed. Intelligence is the growth of inner consciousness. It has nothing to do with knowledge, it has something to do with meditativeness. An intelligent person does not function out of his past experience; he functions in the present. He does not react, he responds. Hence he is always unpredictable; one can never be certain what he is going to do.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Intelligent, Past

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• Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?

  Agnes Repplier

  Pain, Regret, Years

  Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”

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• I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights.

  Lusia Strus

  Respect, Believe, Character

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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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• 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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• All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.

  Robert Breault

  Turns, Be You

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• We are born perfect, and we will die perfect. The problem is that we create that character in our story that we pretend to be, or that we want to be, and we cannot hide that from ourselves. We know that we are pretending to be what we are not in the name of perfection.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Spiritual, Character, Names

  AMBER-ALLEN PUBLISHING Interview, www.amberallen.com. June 4, 2013.

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• I haven't felt the excitement for so many years. I feel guilty beyond words about these things. When we're back-stage and the lights go out, and the manic roar of the crowd begins, it does not affect me. The fact is, I can't fool you. It isn't fair to you or to me. The worst crime I can think of is to trick people by faking it, and pretending to be having 100% fun.

  Robert Hilburn

  Fun, Thinking, Light

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• There's this sense of being strange, which is at the heart of every creative person. Every writer, every actor, every director knows who Ripley is. We've made careers and lives out of pretending, making things up, inhabiting other people's stories and lives. That's what I do every day. . . . The story is so audacious and subversive: a central character who behaves badly and isn't apparently caught. That intrigued me no end.

  Anthony Minghella

  Character, Heart, Careers

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• The worst feeling is pretending you do not care about something, when really it is all you seem to think about.Do not date the most beautiful girl in the world, date the girl that makes your world the most beautiful.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Beautiful, Girl, Meaningful

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• People are living in unconsciousness, doing all kinds of things in unconsciousness. Everybody is an unconscious robot. We are just pretending that we are conscious; we are not conscious. The moment you become conscious, all unconscious actions disappear from your life. Your life starts moving in a new dimension. Your each act comes out of inner clarity; your each response is virtuous, is virtue. To live unconsciously is to live in sin; to live consciously is to be virtuous, is to be religious. And to live in total awareness is to be a buddha, is to be a christ.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Moving, People

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• My wife told me one of the sweetest things one could hear: 'I am not jealous. But I am truly sad for all the actresses who embrace you and kiss you while acting, for with them, you are only pretending.'

  Joseph Cotten

  Jealous, Kissing, Wife

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life-that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again.

  Susan Vaught

  Fear, Avoiding Life, Way

  Susan Vaught (2011). “Going Underground”, p.184, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.

  Roberto Benigni

  Lying, Acting, Principles

  "Does this man really think the Holocaust was a big joke?" by Roberto Benigni, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 1999.

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• If it doesn't work horizontally as prose... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry.

  Robert Breault

  Poetry, Prose, Ifs

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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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