Pretending Quotes
Pretending can be a bold form of experimentation and inventiveness. In pretending joy or happiness, we may discover or enhance our capacity for it.
He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.
It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so.
To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then there's no point in pretending.
You've seen how actors make movies like Star Wars and stuff. They're never really there. They're in front of a green screen just pretending to be jumping around.
I'm a total luddite when it comes to technology. Pretending I know how to use a computer is a challenge.
Everybody's strange everywhere. Most of the trick of being a social animal is pretending you're not. But who do you fool? Nobody worth talking to.
I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.
I don't play the tuba. The tuba plays me. My tuba is not actually a tuba, because it has never produced a musical sound. It is actually a giant frog pretending to be a tuba.
Wearing a bath towel around the school yard and pretending it's a cape doesn't mean you have magical powers.
I don't ever want to be bored, doing the same thing from 9 to 5. I've always loved pretending and being someone different.
And they have a display of bananas, which are not bananas but called plantains and are more like a potato pretending to be a banana.
It's fine to pretend that people are one-dimensional, like in body size; the problem comes when you forget that you are just pretending.
I hate crowds of people pretending to be happy on one night of the year, where they get drunk and obnoxious by the end of the night.
Doubt comes to the door in darkness, pretending to be alone and in need of your compassionate ear. But if you let him in, he'll bring his friends.
The sociopaths - that's the real problem. The whole street demeanor is about pretending to be a sociopath as well so that the real ones can't find you.
If professional wrestling did not exist, could you come up with this idea? Could you envision the popularity of huge men in tiny bathing suits, pretending to fight?
Then how come everyone's making like everything that isn't important is very important, all the while they're so busy pretending what's really important isn't important at all?
The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.
I go from locker to locker, pretending the guys are here. You know, give them a little bit of a pep talk. It must be working, because we haven't lost a game yet.
If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.
There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.
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.
There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.
I have always been afraid... Always been pretending to follow you closely, alwyas been pretending to sharpen my teeth, when the truth is, I am ... scared to death just treading on your shadow.
My Emmy competition is awfully good. My stomach is already in knots. The problem is that I don't drink, so I can't calm myself that way. I wish I could be better at pretending I don't care.
To be authentic is to stop pretending to be what think you are, because you are not.
Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.
You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.
I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.
Sometimes good art jumps out at me; most of the time I see bad art, or see nothing at all and just drift, feeling weird, pretending to be fine.
I think a lot guys get laid pretending to be Shaggy 2 Dope because without his paint he's a lot more unrecognizable. He's not a gimpy gorilla like me.
I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today.
Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.
Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object
I speak for an art ... weary of its puny exploits, weary of pretending to be able, of being able, of doing a little better the same old thing, of going a little further along a dreary road.
When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get over it as opposed to pretending everything's okay and dragging it out.
It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.
The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist.
I had a deliberate plan to get into movies by becoming a model, so I went to New York and got a job pretending to be a mannequin in store windows.
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Choose to believe in your own myth your own glamour your own spell a young woman who does this (even if she is just pretending) has everything.