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  We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Pretend, Must, Careful
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  To keep a secret, tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you are kidding.

  Lemony Snicket

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pretend, Secret

• I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I’m someone else.

  David Byrne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pretend

• To pretend you don’t feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.

  Trevor McDonald

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in After, Living, Pretend

• My husband acts and I have such respect for those that do it well, that I wouldn’t even try to pretend I can act.

  Leeza Gibbons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pretend, Husband

• To be able to pretend to be something that I’m frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

  Hugh Laurie

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  Tags in Liberating, Pretend

• I don’t know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

  Sir Alec Guinness

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  Tags in Pretend

• I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.

  Nelson Mandela

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  Tags in Brave, Whole, Pretend

• I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I’d do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I’d pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I’d scream, ‘Ow, ow, put it back!’

  Geena Davis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Pretend

• You can’t pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can’t fake that.

  Claire Bloom

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  Tags in Fake, Pretend

• Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you’re not really interested in order to get where you’re going.

  Christopher Morley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Interested, Order, Pretend

• I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else – somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It’s comforting. It’s escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it’s just part of human nature to pretend.

  Richard D. Zanuck

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pretend, Escapism

• During Breaking The Waves, I was on my own in a hotel room. I think I would have been impossible to live with. When you go home, you have to pretend to be the person you are at home.

  Emily Watson

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  Tags in Impossible, Pretend

• When you put on the suits, when you pretend you’re honest and you’re robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to… well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Level, Pretend
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  Pretending you’re fine when you’re dying inside.

  Unknown

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  Tags in Pretend, Discontent, Dying

• People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

  Bette Davis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Actors And Acting, Pretend, Actress
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  I pretend to look around, but i was actually looking at you.

  Unknown

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  Tags in Around, Pretend, Actually, Looking

• Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let’s say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don’t pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn’t go with my personality.

  Victoria De Los Angeles

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  Tags in Pretend, Personality, Communication

• One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.

  Scott Adams

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  Tags in Compensate, Pretend, Brain

• I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Pretend, Nothing