Pretending Quotes - Page 26

• To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible.

  Jessica Lange

  New York, Thinking, Canada

  "Jessica Lange Says Don't Come Knocking". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. March 20, 2006.

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• It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.

  Sam Harris

  Worry, People, Share

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• I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today.

  Sarah Palin

  Past, Thinking, Hype

  "Sarah Palin Talks Immigration, Economy and Political Future". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. August 01, 2010.

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• It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.

  Nick Hornby

  Relationship, Boyfriend, Husband

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.128, Penguin

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• After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that they’d actually made some sort of choice.

  Tom Perrotta

  Children, People, Choices

  Tom Perrotta (2007). “Little Children: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan

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• I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years.

  Dennis Miller

  Sports, Jobs, Fun

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• We've never played at this place before. This place is big, and I'm kinda nervous, so we're going to make it feel small by pretending we're in a... bedroom. We'll hang off the edge of the bed, take off our shoes and get naked!

  Dave Matthews

  Shoes, Bed, Naked

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• I think we have to face right in the center of the hurricane, if you will, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s foibles and faults. I think that we do no good to ourselves and do no honor to him by pretending that he did not fail, that he did not wrestle greatly and, at times, surrender to his own sins and his own faults and failures.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Kings, Thinking, Honor

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• I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.

  Amy Winehouse

  Girl, Stupid, Bad Ass

  "What I know about men". Interview with Chloe Diski, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2006.

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• For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know this? It's a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dreamclock chiming beneath a mystery-glass we call life. Behind it? Below it and around it? Chaos, storms. Men with hammers, men with knives, men with guns. Women who twist what they cannot dominate and belittle what they cannot understand. A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where mortals dance in defiance of the dark.

  Stephen King

  Loss, Dark, Gun

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.791, Simon and Schuster

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• I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate.

  Ben Kingsley

  Hands, Gains, Turns

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• I played soccer, and I was the kid who ran the wrong way, or I was pretending to be some sort of zebra and I would flail my arms and kick up my legs.

  Johnny Weir

  Soccer, Zebras, Kids

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• Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Inspirational, Relationship, Community

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Turning to One Another (Large Print 16pt)”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.

  Mike Mills

  Lying, Actors, Findings

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

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• You can relax more when you're playing a silly character than when you're playing a really rigid character. But to be fair, I think George Clooney is a bigger teenager than any of the 'Twilight' cast. He's the guy throwing a football at your head and then hiding around the corner, pretending it wasn't him!

  Anna Kendrick

  Football, Teenager, Silly

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• I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.

  Alexei Sayle

  Summer, Nice, Winter

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• Just as Bowie, Zeppelin, etc., became rock stars by remaking themselves in the image of the California girls, the Go-Gos became rock stars by pretending to be the Buzzcocks and the Sex Pistols. Jane Wiedlin always said her biggest influence was growing up in L.A. as a Bowie girl.

  Rob Sheffield

  Girl, Sex, Stars

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• It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

  Lillian Hellman

  Women, Memorable, People

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• Don't throw petals on the floor if they have no meaning. I would rather have a fun, casual relationship than have someone pretending they're completely in love with me.

  Ashley Greene

  Fun, Casual, Petals

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Skills, Knowing, People

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.

  Margaret Atwood

  Tree, Corners

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Sleep, Noise, Eating Animals

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• the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!

  Pearl Cleage

  Knowing, Problem, Possibility

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• The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

  C. S. Lewis

  Reality, Morality, Hounds

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• I have always been with men who were type A, alpha males. I must exist because I'm with him, I'd think. But what made them what they were also often meant they were lacking empathy genes. And now I know I don't need an alpha male; I need somebody who's interesting. I'm not pretending that I'm 100 percent healed, so I might not know if a man is right for me right away, but it wouldn't take me seven years to figure it out. Maybe a month or two.

  Jane Fonda

  Men, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.oprah.com

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