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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. — Geena Davis

The secret is authenticity. The reason people fail is because they're pretending to be something they're not. — Oprah Winfrey

Suzanne is not a horrible person masquerading as a nice one, just an angry one pretending to be normal. — Meg Rosoff

You are a human mind again, pretending to be a human being, interacting with another mind, playing a drama called love. — Eckhart Tolle

And here's a life lesson for you, Miss Anderson. I'm not pretending. — L. H. Cosway

This is Louisiana, Dave. Guatemala North. Quit pretending it's the United States. Life will make a lot more sense, he said. — James Lee Burke

The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them. — Emanuel Celler

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

To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting. — Roberto Benigni

An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay. — Robbie Williams

One artificially intelligent supercomputer pretending to be a hostile alien race for the purpose of testing humanity's character? — Ernest Cline

I like hard work and I don't like pretending things are perfect. — Amy Poehler

I didn't realize that pretending to be this 'Hills Heidi,' this spoiled rich girl who I wasn't, would almost destroy me. — Heidi Montag

It crouches like a spider, waiting for us ti get close enough, pretending to be inanimate. — Kendare Blake

She never felt like she belonged anywhere,except for when she was lying on her bed, pretending to be somewhere else. — Rainbow Rowell

I asked this question: How can I think about my brain when it's my brain doing the thinking? So is this brain pretending to be me thinking about it? — E.L. Doctorow

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

It was only the sea sounding weary
After so many lifetimes
Of pretending to be rushing off somewhere
And never getting anywhere. — Charles Simic

I step naked into the shower of truth - whole-hearted, bloody-minded, utterly selfish, no longer even pretending to enjoy or understand anything. — Selima Hill

I wait for him to say the words, I'm done pretending. — Krista Ritchie

Just like a kitten pretending to be a lion. — Kiki Hamilton

Pretending doesn't require expensive toys. — Fred Rogers

Maybe I should get my mom something," he said bitterly. "What says 'Thanks for throwing me out of the house and pretending I died'?" "Orchids? — Cassandra Clare

In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone "come out" to you is the "pretending to be surprised" part. — Tina Fey

To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible. — Jessica Lange

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive. — C.S. Lewis

As if I hadn't spent a lifetime pretending to forget. — Kate Morton

I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending. — Jamie Bell

It wasn't just pretending everything was fine or grasping at normalcy, but grabbing it by the ears and making it my bitch. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing. — Sarah Miller

You're a defiant act of creation. You're a whole solar system pretending to be a person. — Elisabeth Hewer

She was so good at pretending to be normal it disgusted her. — Allie Burke

If everyone stopped pretending
capitalism would drop dead — Carl-John X. Veraja

How can love let it go when it has no place to go? And I can't go along pretending that love isn't here to stay ... Catch me I'm falling for you ... — Toni Gonzaga

But now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not. — Alice Hoffman

But lately, RBG was tired of pretending not to hear. — Irin Carmon

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. — Julia Cameron

Humility doesn't mean hiding in the corner and pretending you are not strong. Humility means to be what you are. — Frederick Lenz

That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't. — Claire Keegan

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself. — Katharine Hepburn

Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death, — W.B.Yeats

If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what you're talking about. — Loudon Wainwright III

The yellow Lego was brick-shaped again. Pretending innocence. — William Gibson

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could. — George Bernard Shaw

The beautiful thing about losing your illusions, he thought, was that you got to stop pretending. — James S.A. Corey

Growing up, I was a kid pretending to be an adult. — Guy Pearce

I'm tired of pretending that everything's fine just so I can please everyone else. — Spencer Tracy

And once I'm pretending that's the truth, I figure it might as well be the truth. — Rachel Cohn

Pretending something doesn't matter doesn't make it matter less. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

We have to stop pretending that Islam is a religion. Islam is a totalitarian ideology that aims to conquer the West. — Edward Cline

Honesty is a suitor with piercing vision who isn't swayed by pretending and positioning. — Lysa TerKeurst

To be authentic is to stop pretending to be what think you are, because you are not. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat. — Holly Black

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. — George Santayana

Pretending to drink coffee was similar to faking an orgasm. — Darynda Jones

Theorists! Stop pretending that you are not artists. — Alexei Shulgin

Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep — Sherman Alexie

We'll all grow up Meg, no pretending we won't. — Louisa May Alcott

One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see — Bob Seger

I'm really good at pretending. — Sophie McShera

We are the universe pretending to be individuals. — Deepak Chopra

Thank heaven Election Day is over. No more campaign ads, no more mud-slinging, no more candidates pretending they're straight. It's over! — Craig Ferguson

Every word she says makes me feel a little more like faking a stroke and pretending to lose all memory of who I was. — Chad Kultgen

If no one figures out you are pretending to be retarded, your life will be greeted with treasure. — Eugene Mirman

Now is when we can stop pretending to be normal. — E. Lockhart

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. — Jerry Saltz

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was. — J.K. Rowling

True love can blossom in unexpected places. This is Jaden pretending not to notice. — Katie Klein

Even the kids, behind the slice of streetscape floating in the glass, had mastered the art of pretending not to see. — Garth Risk Hallberg

I wanted someone to know that before I started a life pretending to be less than everyone around me. — Ally Condie

There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know. — Robert Henri

It's like pretending to be Santa and then stabbing someone with a candy cane! — Ellery Adams

A girl should never be stupid unless she is pretending to be stupid to save her own life, Lina said. — Sister Souljah

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

Because this is a prison, and there's a prison warden pretending to read a book, just to make others think she's an intelligent woman. — Paulo Coelho

This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos. — Dave Eggers

Stop making parenthood harder by pretending it's not hard. — Glennon Doyle Melton

When the electric dog finally stopped shocking him, Mack Sullivan lay outstretched on the cold concrete, pretending he was unable to move. — Hugo Krait

You don't get anything worth getting by pretending to know things you don't know. — Sam Harris

Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice. — Julian Barnes

You wanted to show everyone you could write about the black heart of a killer. And all the while pretending you don't even have your own dark desires. — Naoyuki Ochiai

Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations. — Willem Dafoe

A zombie pretending to be a zombie pretending to be a zombie. Made me dizzy. — Diana Rowland

There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer. — Tom Petty

We are only ever pretending to ourselves, never to other people ... — Jose Saramago

No one cares. They're just pretending — Unknown

When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green. — Adam Ant

Definitely in voice-over, you have to be completely uninhibited. More than that, you have to put yourself back into the enjoyment of pretending. — Molly Quinn

The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.
— Vernon Howard

If it doesn't work horizontally as prose ... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry. — Robert Breault

Pretending to be a princess is fun, but it is definitely not a career. — Sonia Sotomayor

What is more important in life? Living or pretending to live? — Paulo Coelho

Maybe it was time to at least pretend to be a nicer person than i knew i was — Sue Grafton

Wall Street's favorite scam is pretending that luck is skill. — Ronald Ross

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

It's better to risk being disliked for living your truth than to be loved for what you are pretending to be. — Dawn Gluskin

I told myself that I was the one pretending to fit in, but life has taught me that we are all pretenders. Every single one of us. — Tarryn Fisher

All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you. — Robert Breault

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else. — Saoirse Ronan