Top 100 Not Pretending Quotes
#1. So it wasn't actually that bad, it took a couple of weeks to sort of get used to uh, you know, standing around and pretending to have ice shoot out of your hand, but once you got used to that it uh, it was actually not that hard.
Shawn Ashmore
#2. Something out of childhood whistles through this space, a sense of games and half-made selves, but it's not that you're pretending to be someone else. You're pretending to be exactly who you are. That's the curious thing.
Don DeLillo
#3. Shutting your eyes and pretending something's not happening doesn't make it not true, Jace.
Cassandra Clare
#4. It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.
Neil Young
#5. Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.
China Mieville
#7. The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.
Paul Fussell
#8. My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.
Meryl Streep
#9. Be real, because a mask only fools people on the outside. Pretending to be someone you're not takes a toll on the real you, and the real you is more important than anyone else.
Alex Gaskarth
#10. We might mean different things. How can you tell? Only by reading each of us carefully and seeing what each of us has to say - not by pretending that we are both saying the same thing. We're often saying very different things.
Bart D. Ehrman
#11. For the first time, in Golconda, she had practiced Larry's choice of withdrawing if the people were not of quality. Of preferring solitude to the effort of pretending he was interested in them.
Anais Nin
#12. And they can't understand, what hurts more - Missing the other person, or pretending not to.
Khadija Rupa
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. Pretending that the world's religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our world more dangerous. What we need on this furiously religious planet is a realistic view of where religious rivals clash and where they can cooperate.
Stephen R. Prothero
#16. Dear today,
i spend all of you pretending i'm okay when i'm not, pretending i'm happy when i'm not, pretending about everything to everyone.
Nina LaCour
#17. It's a long story," I said. "The short version is Diesel and I are pretending to get married, so we can get Kloughn to marry Valerie." "Does Morelli know about this?" "It's pretend." "I'm not even gonna ask if Ranger knows. Poor ol' Diesel here be dead if Ranger knew.
Janet Evanovich
#18. I laughed. "I don't care if you're nice or not. I just want you to be you. No more pretending. I think it's time we all got to know the real Logan Lyke."
"What if I don't know who the real me is?" he asked.
"Then I guess you better find yourself," I smiled.
Micalea Smeltzer
#19. I realized that's all I've ever wanted. You're all I've ever wanted, Evangeline. I'm tired of pretending that's not true. I'm tired of thinking I can replace you with someone else. Anyone else. I'm tired of not being with you.
D.L. White
#20. How many more of us are faking the facade? How many more of us are pretending to be something we're not? Even better, how many of us will have the courage to be ourselves regardless of what others think?
Katie McGarry
#21. The disappointments seemed to escape the family's notice, though. That was another of their quirks: they had a talent for pretending that everything was fine. Or maybe it wasn't a quirk at all. Maybe it was just further proof that the Whitshanks were not remarkable in any way whatsoever.
Anne Tyler
#22. We all pretend for a while or for a lifetime. But pretending is not living ... I believe that God meant for life to take our breath away, sometimes because of the sheer joy of it all and sometimes because of the severe pain. To choose living over pretending means that we will know both.
Angela Thomas
#23. 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
#24. But there was no use pretending: I was not the sort of person who counted blessings; I was the sort of person for whom there could never be enough blessings.
Jamaica Kincaid
#25. 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
#26. Hell, is trying to do what you can't do, trying to be what you're not
Anzia Yezierska
#27. Lysandra said softly, "I will not apologize to you. I serve her. And I am willing to spend the rest of my life pretending to be her so that her sacrifice isn't in vain - " "You
Sarah J. Maas
#28. You're not my words, Emma." I said, standing up and staring at the door while pretending to be gazing deep into her pretty hazel eyes. "But you're my numbers. You're all of my numbers." I paused, listened, and figured she had fallen asleep. "You're my infinity.
Morgan Parker
#29. I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time I spent in the asylum is that I could choose madness and spend my whole life without working, doing nothing, pretending to be mad. It was a very strong temptation..
Paulo Coelho
#30. 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.
Sarah Palin
#31. I've always been interested in the form itself, so I always feel like I've never been good at going ahead with the artifice and not acknowledging the self in the artistic process, and not acknowledging the absurdity of pretending that's required in fiction.
Dave Eggers
#32. I could already hear the music inside, the murmur of people, kids I'd gone to school with for the last twelve years, dressed up and pretending to be the adults we'd all eventually turn into, whether we wanted to or not.
Joe Schreiber
#33. Many of the artists are not pretending to have an objective point of view. They're revealing the subjectivity.
Massimiliano Gioni
#34. I'm honor-bound not to struggle with this since you just retrieved it all by yourself. Please do me the courtesy of pretending this is hard for you as well.
C.J. Redwine
#35. As long as you don't think he's just pretending not to mind for your sake, it sounds like he has truly accepted that blow jobs are too difficult and painful for you to perform, and he's still very satisfied with your sex life. Take him at his word.
Mallory Ortberg
#36. I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world.
Shirley Jackson
#37. Forget the Syria debate; we need a debate on why we are always debating on whether to bomb someone. Because we're starting to look not so much like the world's police men but more like George Zimmerman. Itching to use force and then pretending it's because we had no choice.
Bill Maher
#38. 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
#39. I've never gone on Facebook and am not sure I understand it. The same goes for Twitter. I have someone sending tweets and pretending to be me, but I don't know why.
David Sedaris
#40. You don't have to try to be good; you just need to stop pretending to be what you are not.
Miguel Ruiz
#41. Your mother was the love of my life. Not everyone gets to have that. I did. Yes, I miss her, but I'm happier being alone and missing her than pretending not to miss her while being with someone else. Does that ridiculous statement make sense?"
"Yes."
"Good.
Tracy Guzeman
#42. We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer's accent. That's just pretending to be something you ain't.
Joe Strummer
#43. I'm tired of pretending I'm not a rock star from Mars.
Bill Belichick
#44. 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
#45. I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.
Calvin Harris
#46. And you have a bad habit of pretending like you don't need people." There was a bite in his tone. "I'm not sorry I kissed you.
Jennifer Wilson
#47. I'm not hiding who I am anymore - not pretending I'm something I'm not.
Blake McIver Ewing
#48. 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
#49. What?' Noah looked at me, all innocence.
'You're not shy.'
'No?'
'No,' I said, narrowing my eyes. 'And pretending to be makes you look like a jackass.'
Noah feigned offense. 'You've wounded me to the core with your profane characterization.'
'Pass the tissues.
Michelle Hodkin
#50. Peter invented, with Wendy's help, a new game that fascinated him enormously, until he suddenly had no more interest in it, which, as you have been told, was what always happened with his games. It consisted in pretending not to have adventures ...
J.M. Barrie
#51. The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.
Malcolm McLaren
#52. Instead of ignoring her infirmity, pretending it was not there, he made it seem like something special and endearing. For the first time Pauline felt that her bad foot was an asset
Toni Morrison
#53. No one can remain married today because they are not married to the one they love, they are married to their sacrifice, and pretending to love is too damned painful. Love and build, love and work, love and fight. Always love first. Anything placed before love will fail.
Sister Souljah
#54. Pretending that we know more than we really do is one big reason we're not as successful as we should be. It's probably the worst self-limiting behavior that we have.
Dan Waldschmidt
#55. When was the last time you felt like someone knew you and not the person you've been pretending to be. When was the last time you felt like yourself.
Lang Leav
#56. You're literally being an actor - you're pretending - and that's not what I like to do.
Kristen Stewart
#57. How many of you think it is time for American to stop pretending we are not Christian? If there's people in King, North Carolina who don't like that, there's lots of places you can move to.
David Gene Gibbs
#58. Why can't you go back to playing princess?" "I never played princess." "Are you kidding?" he says. "Whenever Heather's mom took the two of you to the parade, you wore your fanciest dress, pretending to be the Winter Queen." "Exactly!" I say. "Queen, not princess. You raised me better than that.
Jay Asher
#59. 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
#60. The human condition is all about us pretending to be something sometimes that we're not. When you get into the core of people kind of stripping all of that away, that's for me, as an actor, always the most fun stuff to do.
Charlize Theron
#61. I really try as hard as I can on the show. If people can't see my face, if they can't see my sweat beads or at least that I'm struggling, that I'm not just pretending or going through the motions, then who can blame them for thinking that it's some kind of ridiculous piss-take?
John Maus
#62. He's looking at me. I can feel his eyes from across the yard, where he's losing a game of croquet to his niece, Piper. He's only pretending to try, I think, but it's hard to tell because I'm definitely not looking at him.
Jessica Martinez
#63. I'd rather live my life knowing that I'm not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.
Will Smith
#64. Not just in Christian music but also in a lot of Christian culture there is a lot of pretending that everyone is perfect, nobody is really going through much.
Michael Gungor
#65. Think of it! 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.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#66. We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call the costs of pretending not to be mad.
Ernest Becker
#67. Eating plain toast will detonate her.
"I'll have some honey."
When the bread is done I scrape on a microscopic layer of it and pour a cup of coffee, black. She pretends not to listen or watch as I crunch through my breakfast. I pretend that I don't notice her pretending.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#68. I have this dream that, secretly, all teenage girls feel exactly like me. And maybe one day, when we realize that we all feel the same, we can all stop pretending we're something we're not...
Zoe Sugg
#69. Living a life worthy of the gospel does not mean pretending to be perfect. Instead, it means having the humility to think of others as better than ourselves (Phil. 2:3).
Matt Chandler
#70. Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist.
Eve Ensler
#71. It's time to stop pretending I'm ok with things I'm not ok with like all insects and Foster the People.
Greg Behrendt
#72. Suzanne is not a horrible person masquerading as a nice one, just an angry one pretending to be normal.
Meg Rosoff
#73. But how he acts, and what he says, and what he does, and who he is, they don't line up anymore, and the lie is in that not lining up, the lie is in not being what she needs but pretending that he is. No one says a word, and she sees it every minute they have together.
Brad Barkley
#74. I'm an enormously talented man, and there's no use pretending that I'm not..
Noel Coward
#75. Quit the bitching on your blog
And stop pretending art is hard.
Just limit yourself to three chords
And do not practice daily.
You'll minimize some stranger's sadness
With a piece of wood and plastic.
Holy fuck it's so fantastic,
Playing ukulele.
Amanda Palmer
#76. The most annoying thing I found was all the people pretending to be me on MySpace and Facebook. I'm not a member of either, but apparently there is an 'official' Nikki Sanderson MySpace page, complete with rants about how terrible identity fraud is, which is ironic.
Nikki Sanderson
#77. You lying sneak."
"All this time pretending to be a wolfblood's best friend, then spying on us."
"You don't understand. I did it to protect ya. When you secret gets out, i'll have the evidence to prove that you're not evil
Debbie Moon
#78. The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.
Charlie Sheen
#79. 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
Abraham Lincoln
#80. The only way liberals win national elections is by pretending they're not liberals.
Rush Limbaugh
#81. The duke sounded like he was trying to convince himself. "Have you ever done this before?"
"Set up someone by pretending to be someone else? Sure. Pretended to get killed? Not so much.
Brent Weeks
#82. We are born perfect, and we will die perfect. The problem is that we create that character in our story that we pretend to be, or that we want to be, and we cannot hide that from ourselves. We know that we are pretending to be what we are not in the name of perfection.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#83. That was what living a serious life meant, wasn't it, honoring the gravity of things by not pretending they were light?
Howard Jacobson
#84. Don't go on pretending to be someone you are not
Sizzla
#85. You can get lost, pretending to be someone you're not.
Karen Hawkins
#86. Lhyn watched her with a smile. "You do realize that's your fourth cup and it's not even midmeal. Shouldn't you be starting a bit lower than full addict level?" "I am a full addict; what's the use in pretending? Besides, it's only three and a half cups.
Fletcher DeLancey
#87. Because sometimes when things are going really well, we find the one thing we're pretending we're not looking for.
Susan Mallery
#88. 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
#89. It's okay not to know all the answers. It's better to admit our ignorance than to believe answers that might be wrong. Pretending to know everything, closes the door to finding out what's really there.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#90. But now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.
Alice Hoffman
#91. 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
#92. After I got my coffee, I leaned against a stop sign and sipped, pretending it was a normal day and I was only up this early so that I could go running and not because I'd just been on a killing spree.
Augusten Burroughs
#93. And here's a life lesson for you, Miss Anderson. I'm not pretending.
L. H. Cosway
#95. Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Oliver Herford
#96. The truth is .. I'm okay with people not liking me. I'm not okay with them pretending that they do. Keep it real. Everybody ain't for everybody.
Nakia R. Laushaul
#97. The truth about porn. Men do not watch porn and fantasize over the women in the videos, they fantasize about being wanted like the women in the videos are pretending to want their partner. If you want to fulfill your man's fantasies, just make him feel wanted.
Michael A. Wood Jr.
#98. 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
#99. Of course I'm a fake. We're all fakes on this whole world, pretending to be something we're not. We are not just bodies walking around, not just atoms, molecules. We are unkillable, undestroyable ideas of the IS, no matter how much we believe otherwise.
Richard Bach
#100. For America is composed not of two sorts of people, but of two frames of mind - the first engaged in doing what is would like to do, the second pretending that such things do not exist.
F Scott Fitzgerald
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