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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
Human humour often consists of pretending to wish something does not really wish.
We're in a long line of English people pretending to be Americans and not being as good as Americans.
I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now.
What I love about Nivea is they're all about authenticity. The brand isn't pretending to be anything it isn't.
We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.
Oh, I must be ambitious, mustn't I? I'm sure I always have been. I think you can only get away with pretending you're not for so long. After that, it becomes ridiculous.
You don't get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don't know.
I played soccer, and I was the kid who ran the wrong way, or I was pretending to be some sort of zebra and I would flail my arms and kick up my legs.
I was trying to replace something I'd come to care about very much with something pretending to be as important.
It's a different thing shooting for 10 weeks in India as opposed to on a set on stage pretending you're in India.
It's time to stop pretending I'm ok with things I'm not ok with like all insects and Foster the People.
One way of paying tribute to my parents was 'bearing witness' as the Quakers do - writing down everything that was happening instead of turning my back on it and pretending that it was all great.
Good people protect people they love even if that means that pretending that everything is okay.
Scoring goals is the best feeling in the world. It's a habit. It's a drug. Everybody runs away in the playground pretending they've scored in front of thousands of people. I do that for real.
But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.
I'm sorry and ashamed to report that I'm not actually a Jew. I was pretending to be a Jew to minimize the holocaust.
I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.
If you can truly believe what you are pretending to do is really happening, then your audience will believe it, too.
I love that my fans are cool with me being lovey-dovey about my wife rather than pretending that I'm single and trying to act all sexy onstage.
Acting's the best job there is. Pretending to be someone you're not is good fun. It's also a non-ageist profession, and you get to work all over the world with people you admire.
Humility doesn't mean hiding in the corner and pretending you are not strong. Humility means to be what you are.
An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.
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.
I'm not scared of many things in front of the camera. Everywhere else, yes, I'm terrified. But acting is just pretending, and you are exploring feelings in a safe environment.
Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.
Back in college, I remember shooting stupid videos with my friends. It would be us going around town in capes pretending we were superheroes.
Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.
What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.
If it doesn't work horizontally as prose... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry.
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.
I've learned that you can call it a band, but unless everyone is contributing, it's not, really. It's pretending that it's a band.
The finest thing about a hobby is that you can't do any pretending about it. You either like it or you don't.
And they have a display of bananas, which are not bananas but called plantains and are more like a potato pretending to be a banana.
Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep
Simon has always said we're a chat show pretending to be a music show.
Donald Trump's more sophisticated defenders have long since mastered the art of pretending that the only thing that matters with his presidency is what it does, not what he says.
I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality.
We all carry extreme heartache and demons. Instead of pretending like we don't, I like to be honest and real.
When one has a crisis of faith it means one is struck by the realisation than one has been pretending know things that one doesn't know.
I'd rather live my life knowing that I'm not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.
The world should be worried about those who go around the planet with a can of gasoline in one hand and a box of matches in the other, pretending to sell fire insurance.
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
You've seen how they make movies like Star Wars and stuff. They're never really there. They're in front of a green screen just pretending to be jumping around.
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.
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.
Even when I interact or meet my fans during events, I let them know of my actual Twitter handle so that they are not taken advantage of by anybody online pretending to be me.
I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.
I'm just drawn to the odd guy, the man who is full of it, the guy who has limited talent but is pretending he's a genius.
I like hard work and I don’t like pretending things are perfect.
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.
Donghae always act cute. Not that he's pretending but he is naturally cute.
Yeah, pretending to ride a horse is actually a lot harder than riding a horse.
The only way liberals win national elections is by pretending they're not liberals.
You get paid and you get venerated and worshipped for pretending to be somebody else.
Go ahead and make up a ton of lies about me. That's way more interesting than pretending Wikipedia has any real information.
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.
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.
I always felt a bit alone and isolated from other people...I did a lot of pretending as a child. It was my way of coping with the fact that I didn't feel like I fit in.
Telling lies is the easy bit, but telling the truth and pretending you are lying is hard.
Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.
