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Quotes About Pretending

We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.
~ Annie Barrows
1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion. 2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done. 3. There is no editing stage. 4. Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it. 5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
~ Seth Godin
Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep
~ Sherman Alexie
We're multigenerational Squires. (Carl) Which means what? You prance around with tinfoil armor and plastic swords pretending to be knights? (Nick)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I always think that I'm still this 13-year old boy that doesn't really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I'll really have to do it.
~ Richard Linklater
I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog.
~ Saul Bellow
I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
It's way too late to start pretending you like me." "I do like you, you enormous pain in the ass.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The necromancer's eyebrows were very expressive, especially when the rest of the face was pretending blandness. It was a lovely face, oval and more angelic than Perceval's own.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Funny how he could always tell exactly where Michelangelo's attention was, even when Angelo was pretending it was somewhere else.
~ Elizabeth Bear
You were everything, everything that I wanted. We were meant to be, supposed to be, but we lost it. And all of the memories, so close to me, just fade away. All this time you were pretending. So much for my happy ending.
~ Avril Lavine
Playing tough characters just comes easy for me. It's not who I am in real life, so I love going to work and pretending to be something I'm not. I love all the action and confidence. But when I finally go do a rom-com, I hope my fans will support me.
~ Katee Sackhoff
All I know is real life. I don't know how to act. I don't know how to pretend.
~ Sasha Lane
But I cant stand saying one thing when everyone knows I mean another. Whats the use in such hypocrisy? If people arrange the world that way for women, theres no good pretending it's arranged the other way...
~ George Bernard Shaw
For me, it's just acting. It's pretending. The best actors are children, and children don't do research. You never see a child going, 'I'm wondering about my motivation here. How can I do this toy? How can I do this train? I don't feel train.'
~ Brian Cox
Scoring goals is the best feeling in the world. It's a habit. It's a drug. Everybody runs away in the playground pretending they've scored in front of thousands of people. I do that for real.
~ Glenn Murray
Hopefully, everyone has the same feeling I do when they perform. I get such a thrill from getting to play make believe. My favorite place to be is trying to be somebody else.
~ Chris Wood
I went to a festival pretending to work as a journalist to get free tickets and interview people I really admired. I remember one of these people was Guillermo del Toro.
~ Juan Antonio Bayona
Everything I write is sinful, full of lies, especially the big one, the one you go to hell for: pretending not to be a fool.
~ Sallie Tisdale
Acceptance is found only by wholly inhabiting our denial. Contemplating death is really contemplating resistance, and for a long time. How do we get ready to die? We start with not being ready. We start with the fact that we are afraid. A long, lonesome examination of our fear. We start by admitting that we are all future corpses pretending we don't know.
~ Sallie Tisdale
A real actor can't love anyone. Cause he/she only pretends to be lover. Cause he/she still in the role of a lover and doesn't know how to love someone for the real.
~ Salman Aziz
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
What was frustrating about Armageddon was the time I spent not doing anything. It was a big special effects film, and I wasn't crazy about pretending I was in outer space. It feels ridiculous.
~ Steve Buscemi
I can assure you that those villains will recognize, will discover in appropriate time in the future how stupid they are and how they are pretending things which have never taken place
~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf