Pretentious Quotes - Page 6

• The art world is the biggest joke going. It's a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace - never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.

  Banksy

  Art, Taken, Home

  Source: prefuse.net

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• I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties.

  Rachel Zoe

  Party, Kids, Deals

  "The Graduate: Rachel Zoe" by Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 13, 2012.

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• I did this movie, Predestination, and it's one of my favorite movies I've ever made, because sci-fi really lets you talk about ideas in a way that's not pretentious.

  Ethan Hawke

  Ideas, Way, My Favorite

  "Ethan Hawke Talks Regression". Interview with Josh Lasser, www.ign.com. February 4, 2016.

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• Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

  Richard Thompson

  Artist, Thinking, Firsts

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• You come across [online comments] about yourself and about your friends, and it's a very dehumanizing thing,It's almost like how, in war, you go through this bloody, dehumanizing thing ... My hope is, as we get out of it, we'll reach the next level of conscience.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  War, Next Level, Levels

  "Gwyneth Paltrow on Internet Trolls: 'I See Myself as a Screen'" by Nellie Bowles, www.recode.net. May 27, 2014.

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• "Just to have my kids be in the sun every day-picking avocados, going for a swim," she says. "Even for two years or something, and come back when they go to senior school." Just what kids want to do, pick avocados. Also: senior school?

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Senior, School, Kids

  "Gwyneth Unveiled". Interview with Sarah Bailey, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 11, 2013.

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• I find it [science] analytical, pretentious and superficial-largely because it does not address itself to dreams, chance, laughter, feelings, or paradox-in other words,-all the things I love the most.

  Luis Bunuel

  Dream, Laughter, Science

  Luis Bunuel (2011). “My Last Breath”, p.158, Random House

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• A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip.

  Merrill Markoe

  Sunset, Bars, Way

  Merrill Markoe (2011). “What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I've Learned”, p.200, Villard

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• I perceive the world in fragments. It is somewhat like being on a very fast train and getting glimpses of things in strange scales as you pass by. A person can be very, very tiny. And a billboard can make a person very large. You see the corner of a house or you see a bird fly by, and it's all fragmented. Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have a very pretentious idea that I want to make life, I want to make sense out of it. The fact that I am doomed to failure - that doesn't deter me in the least.

  Grace Hartigan

  Ideas, House, Bird

  "Contemporary Artists: A-K" by Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, (p. 680), 2002.

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• I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's like a soap written by a poet.

  Michelle Dockery

  Drama, Thinking, Sound

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.

  Laurie Anderson

  Dream, Writing, Epic

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• During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first few pages of my first novel. I can still recite the opening paragraph from memory - only now I cringe when I do it because they are - surprise! - a classic example of overwriting, in addition to being a more than a little pretentious.

  Patricia Briggs

  Memories, College, Years

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• Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean you have to write for the Academy. Be true to your personality. Don't temper your personality down with words. Don't build defensive fortresses around yourself with words - words are your friends.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Mean, Writing, Personality

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• I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh.

  Rosamund Pike

  Thinking, Ideas, Laughing

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• I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Sound, Cinema, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films … like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning.

  Andy Milonakis

  Art, Want, Sides

  "Kickin' it with Andy Milonakis". Interview with Bethonie Butler, ew.com. September 18, 2007.

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• At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a comb-over. It is Nielsen ratings and Barnum's axiom and the real bottom line. It is big, big business.

  David Foster Wallace

  Real, Mean, Humility

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• Getting up to dance to your own stuff looks pretty pretentious. And leaving the dancefloor when it comes on is just awkward.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Inspirational, Dance, Leaving

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• I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.

  Anne Carson

  Groups, Kind, Tradition

  "Magical thinking" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2006.

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• Whenever there remains any support for the ego within, even if it be only an atom's weight, then you are pretentious and have a devil who leads you astray.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Support, Ego, Devil

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• Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.

  Roger Deakins

  Thinking, Important, Sound

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• Sometimes we talked about the nature of the human soul and about the Cosmic Unity of souls that I had believed in so firmly when I was 15 years old. My mother did not like the phrase Cosmic Unity. It was too pretentious. She preferred to call it a world soul.

  Freeman Dyson

  Mother, Years, Soul

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• Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!

  David Eddings

  Teaching, Thinking, Numbers

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• This may sound pretentious, but I don't like being thought of as 'the Metal Gear guy.' There's a lot more I can do.

  Hideo Kojima

  Guy, Sound, Gears

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• I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.

  Sadie Frost

  Effort, Too Much, Sadie

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

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