Pretend Quotes
On the gap between appearances and what's real underneath.
Several lines draw a line between honest limitation and outright pretending, including the idea that institutions do better admitting what they aren't. Read related thoughts in our Know quotes.
I don't pretend to be a great interviewer; I don't even pretend to be good at my job.
I like befriending my collaborators because I'd rather make music with people I like than people I pretend to like.
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
I will not pretend to be something that I'm not. I certainly won't do it to win the audience over.
I've been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I'm not a grown-up - well, at least for two hours a night!
There's a repression against mothers where we're expected to be full-time workers and pretend we're not mothers, and then expected to be full-time mothers who pretend we're not working. Simultaneously, within the hours of the week that exist.
Listen, I would love to win an Emmy at some stage or another. I can't pretend not to.
I love people who are very honest and very open and don't pretend to be anything they're not.
I think any time I'm nervous I just pretend that I'm not, and that's how I deal with it.
When I was at Upright Citizens Brigade, I would pretend to be a sad, drunk rapper.
I have strengths, and I have weaknesses. I don't pretend to be able to write a great thesis or doctorate - I have no pretensions in that direction.
What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds.
People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.
Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.
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