Pretentious Quotes - Page 10

• The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.' People who say that are boorish and pretentious at the same time.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Country, People, World

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• [Depp] has real ambitions, but he is deeply afraid of being considered pretentious.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Real, Ambition

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• I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Art, Thinking, Enough

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's so pretentious, but I believe that with comedy, if you have a good story, 90% of it is casting. Once you get the guys and gals in there, it's pretty easy to make a funny movie.

  Matt Walsh

  Believe, Guy, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• I can talk about film theory forever and it may sound pretentious or something, but really it's just that I'm fascinated by it.

  John Hyams

  Forever, Sound, May

  Source: collider.com

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• It's pretentious to say, but my art is like a little Zen story, a story with a question mark at the end. People can take from it what they need. If somebody says, "Your art is very funny," I say, "You are totally right." If somebody says, "Your art is very sad," I say, "You are totally right." In Japan they say, "Your art is very Japanese, you even look Japanese.Your great-grandfather was most surely a Japanese man." And I say, "You are totally right."

  Christian Boltanski

  Art, Men, Japan

  "To die is very strange". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. March 12, 2014.

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• There are two types of actors. There's the actors who can acknowledge that they could never do standup comedy. Then there's the pretentious ones, who believe that acting is harder than standup comedy. I definitely don't think it is. I also think making a comedy is substantially harder than making a drama.

  Jim Jefferies

  Drama, Believe, Thinking

  Source: tvmegasite.net

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• Strip is the power. I'm ready to strip... I think everyone is. In that I'm saying I think everyone is ready to take off masks and pretentious costumes that don't represent who they truly are.

  Truth Hurts

  Thinking, Costumes, Mask

  Source: popingcherry.wordpress.com

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• My persona on stage was always coming from a place of I know better than you and I'm going to be a little bit pretentious in your face with these sort of crass ideas.

  Bo Burnham

  Ideas, Faces, Littles

  Source: www.craveonline.com

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• Stand-up is an art but since it's humor and it's funny - a lot of guys that don't think it's art are probably coming from the angle that they don't want to take it so seriously. I've always looked at it as an art but I don't look at it as a pretentious art. I understand it has to be taken lightly because it is just comedy in the end, but the good stand-up comics are someone with something to say.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Art, Taken, Thinking

  Source: www.comedymoontower.com

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• To me, it's important to preserve proximity to the people. I wouldn't do anything pretentious, and nothing that hurts the people who voted for me. Triumphalism isn't my thing.

  Francois Hollande

  Hurt, People, Important

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• When critics or people judge, I think it's harder to make a commercial, pop movie than it is to make a pretentious art film. It's harder to reach millions of people and satisfy them and make them happy. These films kind of get ghettoized, this genre because there are so many big, big movies that are such big hits, but aren't any good. The audiences, they're not judging the style of the director, or the execution of the film. They're just looking to be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.

  Brett Ratner

  Art, Reality, Thinking

  "Chris Tucker and Brett Ratner". Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 7, 2007.

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• The greatest sin is appearing naive or old-fashioned so that somebody can give you a sort of a very cool arch smile and devastate you with one extraordinarily crafted line that puts kind of a hole in your pretentious balloon.

  David Foster Wallace

  Giving, Arches, Lines

  Source: news.stlpublicradio.org

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• I don't want to be pretentious about, "yes, I need to move in to the more dramatic roles and express myself and prove to everyone that I'm capable of doing it," it really isn't that, I think that's a bad reason to choose roles. It's more like, who would I be working with and would they be fun to do and entertaining to watch, is it an interesting story or character.

  Steve Carell

  Fun, Moving, Character

  "Steve Carell Interview CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. July 28, 2011.

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• I loved surrealism and abstract painting, and anything related to those. I always thought painting was the highest form of art. What led me to drawing was seeing so much self-important, pretentious, conceptual-type art in university. I wanted to reject that by making quick, fun art.

  Neil Farber

  Art, Fun, Drawing

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious?

  R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz

  Humanity, Imbeciles, Said

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• I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.

  Marilyn Manson

  Growing Up, Artist, Sound

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• I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.

  Wale

  Talking, Sound

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• Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to lose sight of the complexities and interdependencies of the real world in a maze of pretentious and unhelpful symbols.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Real, Sight, Investing

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.272, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• There's not much longevity in music today. It's so easy to go in, put some pretentious lyrics on, with people saying the same thing over and over and over.

  Patti LaBelle

  People, Today, Easy

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  I think to have a regular job and be a mom is not as, of course there are challenges, but it's not like being on set.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Mom, Jobs, Thinking

  "Gwyneth Paltrow's Post-Split Plans: Actress Reveals She's Taking a Break From Acting to Focus on Her Kids" by Lily Harrison, www.eonline.com. March 26, 2014.

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• All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so "slow," so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle — keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Taken, Inspiration

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4678, Delphi Classics

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