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Quotes About Impostor

Maybe if we told her about the time the impostor tried to kill Sparkpelt
~ Erin Hunter
Maybe only my fraudulence was fraudulent.
~ Ben Lerner
Capgras delusion is a psychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a friend, spouse, parent, or other close family member (or pet) has been replaced by an identical impostor.
~ Ben Rehder
It basically was the worst thing to be called as a businessman: to be falsely labelled an impostor.
~ Omar Amanat
I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since.
~ Akshay Kumar
When he straightened up again, there were six Harry Potters gasping and panting in front of him. Fred and George turned to each other and said together, "Wow -- we're identical!
~ J. K. Rowling
Men love a prop so well, that they will lean on a pointed poisoned spear; and such was he, the impostor, who, with fear of hell for his scourge, most ravenous wolf, played the driver to a credulous flock.
~ Mary Shelley
This impostor has the power of the stars in his paws, and we have to fight him alone.
~ Erin Hunter
We know Bramblestar is an impostor and some cat is sending you false visions. I think we can be pretty sure that the impostor is the one who's been talking to you.
~ Erin Hunter
Sometimes I feel like an impostor, and I have to remind myself, 'You are able to do this.' I look at the books on the shelf that have my name on them to remind myself I have done it before and, likely, I can do it again.
~ Laura Amy Schlitz
The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
~ Steven Pressfield
No hay caricatura si no hay subversión, porque toda imagen memorable de un político es por naturaleza subversiva: le quita su equilibrio al solemne y delata al impostor. Pero tampoco hay caricatura si no hay una sonrisa, aunque sea una sonrisa amarga, en la cara del lector...
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
I mistrust mountebanks—especially of the female variety.
~ Judith Merkle Riley
I'm a fake intellectual.
~ Adam Brody
The goateed Sandy Duncan bustled over again. He spoke with a French accent that sounded about as real as Pepe LePew's. "Monsieur Zuckermahn?" Norm
~ Harlan Coben
While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life.
~ Brennan Manning
As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are impoverished and broken and realize that, if we were not, we would be God. The art of gentleness toward ourselves leads to being gentle with others -- and is a natural prerequisite for our presence to God in prayer.
~ Brennan Manning
Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him.
~ Brennan Manning
Eu,una,n-am s? fiu niciodat? mam?,a declarat Stasia.Am ras cu to?ii.Nici so?ie nu am s? fiu vreodat?;Doamne,e destul de complicat s? fii femeie.Ur?sc femeile!Toate-s ni?te c??ele scarboase,chiar cele mai bune dintre ele.Eu o s? fiu ceea ce sunt:o impostoare care joac? rolul de femeie.
~ Henry Miller
I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.
~ Roger Angell
A loon thought he was Frank Sinatra and every time Frank came on TV or radio the loon would go mad, impostor!
~ Stephen Richards
Who are you anyway?" Krendler said. "You're not Starling. You've got the spot on your face, but you're not Starling.
~ Thomas Harris
More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
the king led his men into battle. Always. That was what the ruler was: both on a practical level and on a mystical one, he was the one who stepped forwards to lead his tribe, put his life at stake for them, become the sacrifice for their safety. If he had refused to do that most crucial thing at that most crucial moment, they would have ripped him apart—and rightly so: he would have shown himself to be an impostor, with no right to the throne.
~ Tana French