Pretending Quotes - Page 6

• I can't work out and *not* be watching or listening to music or something. I also journal a lot. I think writing is super therapeutic. And then, hanging with my nieces and nephews. Just like baking or doing silly stuff like jumping on a trampoline, doing fun things with them, pretending I'm five with them, that makes my day.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Fun, Niece, Silly

  "From Porn to Working Out, Khloé Kardashian Thinks You Should Be 'Doing Things That Make You Happy'". Interview with Samantha Leal, www.marieclaire.com. March 4, 2016.

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• The real self is who you are when you're at home, when you're comfortable, and the false self is what you're pretending - and the reason you pretend is because you want to create a character for the surroundings you're within.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Real, Home, Character

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• On-stage, I definitely want to use my real self because I'm singing to people who believe in what I'm singing, and I believe in what I'm singing, but they shouldn't be fooled because we all have fake selves and it's in there somewhere. It's not pretending to hurt somebody; it's just something that comes out of me, from my experience.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Hurt, Real, Believe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I need something fun to get my mind off of pretending to die and I didn't have any squibs under water.

  Maria Thayer

  Fun, Water, Mind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• That is what we have been feinting towards for a year of our lives: pretending like it was going to happen, acting like it was going to happen, and making you think it was going to happen. I like to work from the back forward.

  David Mandel

  Thinking, Years, Acting

  "Here's what comes next after last night's surprising 'Veep' finale". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. June 27, 2016.

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• When you're the guy behind the camera, you're aware of the reasons for the compromises or the changes that get made. As an actor, you go and do your thing, and someone else down the line then does all the math and goes, "We can't include that thing where he's pretending to be dumb and needling those people, because it takes a minute and a half, and it ruins the next scene. It doesn't make sense." If you're directing, you're the one doing that.

  Casey Affleck

  Math, People, Guy

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2010.

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• I learned that pretending you don't have feelings makes you feel unhappy and unfulfilled and, ultimately, is what really makes you vulnerable because you are hiding from the truth.

  Daphne Oz

  Feelings, Unhappy, Vulnerable

  Interview with Rachel Goldstien, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I remind myself that I don't have the ability to completely manipulate reality to be exactly what I want it to be. So now that reality is antithetical to what I want, how I can feel into it and act skillfully rather than react? How can I choose my best course of action while not pretending I don't have the pain, or running away from the pain, or blaming someone else for the circumstances of my life?

  Brad Willis

  Running, Pain, Reality

  "Warrior Pose: A Conversation with Bhava Ram". Interview with Zoë Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Able, Be You, Ifs

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• I never actually studied an American accent. I never learned it. I never had anybody teach me how to do it. It just kind of happened. I think I probably spent a lot of my childhood in front of my mirror pretending to do Cornflake commercials like the kids I've seen on TV from America.

  India de Beaufort

  Kids, Thinking, Mirrors

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• It was really bizarre. I was learning how to be a black guy from a white guy pretending to be a black man.

  Lenny Henry

  Men, White, Guy

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• When I abandoned the smoking habit of more than three decades I was given a supposedly helpful pill called Wellbutrin. But as soon as I discovered that this was the brand name for an antidepressant, I tossed the bottle away. There may be successful methods for overcoming the blues but for me they cannot include a capsule that says: 'Fool yourself into happiness, while pretending not to do so.' I should actually want my mind to be strong enough to circumvent such a trick.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Strong, Successful, Names

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.307, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It's all that pretending to be perfect that breeds inauthenticity in the church.

  Rich Mullins

  Perfect, Church

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• [Eugene] O'Neill made a living, certainly, at least. But each of these forms have sort of died the death in turn, and it's a simple fact of that universe that talent then migrates away from these forms, and then the amateurs get in, like lunatics in the ruins, sort of pretending to be artists. If you're ambitious enough to want to be a writer to begin with, you want to be a writer in some circumstances where there are rewards, where there's notice, where you don't have to be a teacher, and where you're frankly not nuts for wasting your time.

  William Monahan

  Teacher, Artist, Simple

  Source: collider.com

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• When I got pregnant with my first child I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: "I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant." That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.

  Sally Phillips

  Children, Cake, Weight

  "My body & soul". Interview with Laura Potter, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.

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• Voting for New Labour is like helping an old lady across the road while screaming 'Get a move on!' Even the Tories, who you could once rely on to be completely heartless are pretending to care.

  Boy George

  Moving, Voting, Heartless

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• Suicide is kinda dumb to me. If I wanna kill myself I will. It's not hard to die, I could do it like right now. But why is everybody pretending like everything's ok, Everything's not ok. We are more connected than we've ever been, But I feel more alone than I've ever been.

  Donald Glover

  Suicide, Dumb, Feels

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• It's time to stop pretending I'm ok with things I'm not ok with like all insects and Foster the People.

  Greg Behrendt

  People, Insects

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• I deserve someone who likes me for who I am pretending to be.

  Arj Barker

  Who I Am, Likes, Deserve

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• I'm sorry and ashamed to report that I'm not actually a Jew. I was pretending to be a Jew to minimize the holocaust.

  Andy Kindler

  Sorry, Holocaust, Ashamed

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• I don't want comedy to be Bridesmaids 2. I'm not denigrating Bridesmaids but, enough already, let's stop pretending women are incalculably different to us. Seeking out podcasts, listening on headphones, it's like an intimate, specific conversation. People respond if it feels from the heart. I'm as neurotic a human being as lives, and I have my faults. I'm a drunk. But people really like that.

  Greg Proops

  Heart, Enough Already, People

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• Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That's what you could say about it.

  William Golding

  Men, Paper, Biographies

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• Most of the crew were staying in Monaco. But my family and I were actually staying in Nice because I had my whole family there and we wanted a little more space and to stay in a hotel. The truth is we were asleep [when the attack Bastille Day terror happened] and woke up the next morning to it and it was obviously horrific. And then the idea of going out and filming, it just felt so stupid to be working the next day and pretending that everything's cool when you're making some frivolous thing.

  Jamie Dornan

  Morning, Nice, Stupid

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Christians claim that life has no meaning if you stop pretending to know things you don't know, though they phrase it more tersely as life has no meaning without faith.

  Peter Boghossian

  Christian, Religion, Phrases

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• The problem is there's a new group. I'm talking about this tiny slice of people that have gotten way too fired up about the Trump thing for the wrong reasons. I'm talking about these people that as soon as Trump won, they're like, we don't have to pretend like we're not racist anymore. We don't have to pretend anymore. We can be racist again. Whoa, whoa, whoa, no, no. If you're one of these people, please go back to pretending.

  Aziz Ansari

  People, Racist, Problem

  "Aziz Ansari On 'Master Of None' And How His Parents Feel About Acting". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 24, 2017.

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