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It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.
— Caitlin Moran
I spent part of my college years in a Marxist commune. I was not a Marxist. I wasn't even pretending to be one. I was a Marxist-in-law.
— Jane Smiley
The secret is authenticity. The reason people fail is because they're pretending to be something they're not.
— Oprah Winfrey
Human humour often consists of pretending to wish something does not really wish.
— Katherine Applegate
Suzanne is not a horrible person masquerading as a nice one, just an angry one pretending to be normal.
— Meg Rosoff
you can't avoid politics by pretending you're not part of them.
— Brandon Sanderson
I'm tired of pretending, tired of acting like everything's okay, tired of not being with him ...
— Terra Elan McVoy
Normally it is not polite to go into somebody's room without knocking, but you can make an exception if the person is dead, or pretending to be dead.
— Daniel Handler
His expression softens, his hand running through my hair, over my shoulder, down my arm. "Stop pretending I'm not what you need.
— Karina Halle
It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
— Lillian Hellman
I'm sorry and ashamed to report that I'm not actually a Jew. I was pretending to be a Jew to minimize the holocaust.
— Andy Kindler
I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it.
— Armistead Maupin
Standing just behind them, pretending to be a part of their group and yet so obviously not, was a shape that did not belong.
— Tim Lebbon
I'd rather live my life knowing that I'm not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.
— Will Smith
Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
— Oliver Herford
Aside. "How long will it take?" He was scared, and he wasn't pretending. "Not long," I said. "Not long at all." You
— John Connolly
Partridge was pretending not to lurk near the stairs. 'The body's under the desk,' I said as I passed, just to give her something to worry about.
— Jodi Taylor
I thought you were supposed to be pretending I don't exist, not irritating me to death.
— Stephenie Meyer
Hey. My life's not all about weird little creatures pretending to be teddy bears. From Tribe of the Teddy Bear.
— J. Joseph Wright
I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.
— Donna Summer
You are not a spiritual being in a monkey body you are a monkey pretending to be a spiritual being controlling itself.
— Christopher Zzenn Loren
If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.
— Oprah Winfrey
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.
— Catherynne M Valente
And they can't understand, what hurts more - Missing the other person, or pretending not to.
— Khadija Rupa
I've learned that you can call it a band, but unless everyone is contributing, it's not, really. It's pretending that it's a band.
— Jimmy Chamberlin
How can you have so much compassion? Isn't it exhausting caring so much?" "Not as exhausting as pretending not to care about anything.
— Tonya Burrows
I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.
— Amy Sedaris
Shutting your eyes and pretending something's not happening doesn't make it not true, Jace.
— Cassandra Clare
You're literally being an actor - you're pretending - and that's not what I like to do.
— Kristen Stewart
Hate me for who I am, I don't care. At least I'm not pretending to be someone I'm not.
— Kristen Stewart
I'm pretending to be a vegetarian. Were I not, I believe I probably still wouldn't eat a wallaby.
— Kevin Moffett
Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.
— Alan Dershowitz
It's hard to remember who you were when you're constantly pretending to be someone you're not.
— Amy Ewing
An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.
— Humphrey Bogart
'McHale's Navy' was a disaster. I'm not pretending it wasn't a disaster.
— Sidney Sheinberg
I'm not hiding who I am anymore - not pretending I'm something I'm not.
— Blake McIver Ewing
We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
That was what living a serious life meant, wasn't it, honoring the gravity of things by not pretending they were light?
— Howard Jacobson
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
— Oscar Wilde
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
I'm not pretending to be somebody who's got really limited craft skills. I just am a person who's got really limited craft skills.
— David Shrigley
We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer's accent. That's just pretending to be something you ain't.
— Joe Strummer
I'm tired of pretending I'm not special,
— Charlie Sheen
Pretending/imagining is pretty much the real thing if you do it well enough (if not better)
— Myself
Personally, I think it is better for me to love myself and enjoy being me, than to please someone else by pretending to be someone I'm not.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Hell, is trying to do what you can't do, trying to be what you're not
— Anzia Yezierska
And I'm sure everyone else would too if you only allowed them to see more of who you really are, rather than pretending to be someone you're not!
— Adele Rose
Do not try to drive pain away by pretending it is not real. If you seek serenity in oneness, pain will vanish of its own accord.
— Sengcan
Many of the artists are not pretending to have an objective point of view. They're revealing the subjectivity.
— Massimiliano Gioni
Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.
— Meryl Streep
There is not much difference between angels and demons.
Except that the demons have stopped pretending to be perfect. — Sabrina Benulis
Except that the demons have stopped pretending to be perfect. — Sabrina Benulis
You can get lost, pretending to be someone you're not.
— Karen Hawkins
My father-in-law tripped on a crack in the pavement and spent the rest of the week politely pretending he had not dislocated his shoulder.
— Tina Fey
life pretending to be someone they're not." He
— AnnaLisa Grant
Dear Church, everyone is broken, stop pretending like you're not.
— Carlos A. Rodriguez
Humility doesn't mean hiding in the corner and pretending you are not strong. Humility means to be what you are.
— Frederick Lenz
To be authentic is to stop pretending to be what think you are, because you are not.
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
Theorists! Stop pretending that you are not artists.
— Alexei Shulgin
I saw them standing there pretending to be just friends, when all the time in the world could not pry them apart.
— Brian Andreas
But lately, RBG was tired of pretending not to hear.
— Irin Carmon
Pretending to be a princess is fun, but it is definitely not a career.
— Sonia Sotomayor
I'm not a liar, sir,' she said.
'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be. — Orson Scott Card
'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be. — Orson Scott Card
One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see
— Bob Seger
Even the kids, behind the slice of streetscape floating in the glass, had mastered the art of pretending not to see.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American.
— James Hunter
Stop making parenthood harder by pretending it's not hard.
— Glennon Doyle Melton
If I'm damned, what's the point of pretending that I'm not?
— Rosamund Hodge
The clock shows 3 p.m., the two hands cold and distant. They're pretending to be noncommittal, but I know they're not on my side.
— Haruki Murakami
Merik turned away, pretending not to hear. Not to care. But the truth was, he did hear and he did care.
— Susan Dennard
Married relationships are not what we are pretending they are. It is not the '40s or the 50s anymore - we cannot pretend, things are changing.
— Matthew Ashford
I don't really believe in pretending to be happy when you're not. Mostly I believe that you should burden your friends with your problems.
— Barbara Park
Faith is pretending that you're not pretending.
— Marty Rubin
Bella you are my life now
hate me for who I am I don't care at least im not pretending to be someone im not- Kristen Stewart — Stephenie Meyer
hate me for who I am I don't care at least im not pretending to be someone im not- Kristen Stewart — Stephenie Meyer
Because sometimes when things are going really well, we find the one thing we're pretending we're not looking for.
— Susan Mallery
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.
— Lauren Child
I'm tired of pretending I'm not a rock star from Mars.
— Bill Belichick
Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.
— China Mieville
Denial, as any addict in recovery will tell you, is not defined as knowing something and pretending you don't; it is failing to see it at all.
— Jan Ellison
Being present means being completely aware of all that is. It means you're not in denial, you're not pretending, and you're not avoiding.
— Debbie Ford
If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me ...
— Alan Watts
Ender began to eat, slowly and carefully, pretending not to notice he was the center of attention.
— Orson Scott Card
It's not a real relationship if you're not spending at least half of it pretending to get along fine for the benefit of other people.' Adam
— Nick Spalding