Top 100 Not Pretending Quotes
#1. 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
#3. 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
#4. Many of the artists are not pretending to have an objective point of view. They're revealing the subjectivity.
Massimiliano Gioni
#5. 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
#6. I'm not hiding who I am anymore - not pretending I'm something I'm not.
Blake McIver Ewing
#7. Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist.
Eve Ensler
#8. That was what living a serious life meant, wasn't it, honoring the gravity of things by not pretending they were light?
Howard Jacobson
#9. And here's a life lesson for you, Miss Anderson. I'm not pretending.
L. H. Cosway
#10. Acting is not pretending or lying. It's finding a side of yourself that's the character and ignoring your other sides. And there's a side of me that wonders what's wrong with being completely honest.
Angelina Jolie
#11. I'm not pretending I can give advice to every single person or every single couple for every situation; I'm making the point that we are not going to get to equality in the workforce before we get to equality in the home. Not going to happen.
Sheryl Sandberg
#12. You think this is a mess? New York is a mess! Why should it matter if I spill anything inside? The whole city is a dump! I'm not pretending the inside is any different from the outside anymore!
Sarah Vowell
#13. To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have. One implies a presence, the other an absence. But it is more complicated than that because simulating is not pretending
Jean Baudrillard
#14. 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
#15. The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist.
Seth Godin
#16. He doesn't talk. Except to me. Doesn't smile. Except for me. Doesn't go to dances. Except for me. This is the refrain of our song. He's different with me, and yet I know this is the real Bodee. He's not pretending anymore.
Courtney C. Stevens
#17. When you play a character that's someone real, when you're playing a true story, it's really great, 'cause you're not pretending to make up some silly thing.
Michael Madsen
#18. There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.
Drew Barrymore
#19. I'm not pretending I'm not a nice guy. I'm not pretending I don't have a temper.
James Moore
#20. What are you doing?"
"I'm, uh, acting normal."
"No you're not. You're acting like someone pretending to be normal. Stop pretending and start acting, but don't act like you're not pretending, that'll make it worse.
Derek Landy
#21. I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending ...
Ani DiFranco
#22. 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
#23. Hope is not pretending that troubles don't exist. It is the trust that they will not last forever, that hurts will be healed and difficulties overcome. It is faith that a source of strength and renewal lies within to lead us through the dark into the sunshine.
Liz Chase
#24. I'm right here. This is who I really am. I'm not pretending.
Orson Scott Card
#25. 'McHale's Navy' was a disaster. I'm not pretending it wasn't a disaster.
Sidney Sheinberg
#26. I'm not pretending this is anything more than a short-term relationship, but I like being with you even when there's no sex involved. That means you're not a booty call.
Georgia Cates
#27. We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then.
Agatha Christie
#28. I don't like doing interviews. I'm not pretending to be some super neurotic, hiding in my closet. I could care less about anybody knowing who I am, but I realize this is part of the game. Maybe if I really hated this whole public thing, I would go do plays in Hoboken.
Jared Leto
#29. Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are other than the way they are.
Desmond Tutu
#30. Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.
Julian Barnes
#31. Hate me for who I am, I don't care. At least I'm not pretending to be someone I'm not.
Kristen Stewart
#32. I'm not pretending to be an academic, or to have this down to a science. It's strictly my taste. But there is a connection between everything I play and the sets I put together.
Steven Van Zandt
#33. Faith is pretending that you're not pretending.
Marty Rubin
#34. I'm happier not pretending I know anything about El Cid in Spain. He's a Spanish national hero. I'd rather invent a character inspired by him but clearly not identical to him. And then I feel liberated creatively.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#35. If I had died it would have been even better for you political bratchnies, would it not, pretending and treacherous droogs as you are.' But all that came out was er er er.
Anthony Burgess
#36. Those with Anton's syndrome are not pretending they are not blind; they truly believe they are not blind. Their verbal reports, while inaccurate, are not lies. Instead, they are experiencing what they take to be vision, but it is all internally generated.
David Eagleman
#37. Josh: "Are you really going to sit there and pretend that I don't exist?"
Shel: "I'm not pretending you don't exist. In fact, I am very aware you are right there. I am pointedly ignoring you.
Ella Frank
#38. Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.
Ivan Krastev
#39. 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
#40. Deception is brutal, I'm not pretending otherwise.
Patrick Marber
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. Shutting your eyes and pretending something's not happening doesn't make it not true, Jace.
Cassandra Clare
#44. Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.
China Mieville
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. And they can't understand, what hurts more - Missing the other person, or pretending not to.
Khadija Rupa
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. Hell, is trying to do what you can't do, trying to be what you're not
Anzia Yezierska
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. You don't have to try to be good; you just need to stop pretending to be what you are not.
Miguel Ruiz
#76. 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
#77. We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer's accent. That's just pretending to be something you ain't.
Joe Strummer
#78. I'm tired of pretending I'm not a rock star from Mars.
Bill Belichick
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. You're literally being an actor - you're pretending - and that's not what I like to do.
Kristen Stewart
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. I'd rather live my life knowing that I'm not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.
Will Smith
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
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