Quotes with pretend

Quotes 61 till 68 of 68.

• What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

  Doris Lessing
  British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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• When I was at Upright Citizens Brigade, I would pretend to be a sad, drunk rapper.

  Bobby Moynihan
  American actor, comedian, and writer (1977 - )
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• 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
  American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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• Who can direct when all pretend to know?

  Oliver Goldsmith
  Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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• Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.

  Al Stewart
  Scottish singer-songwriter (1945 - )
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• You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.

  Sacha Guitry
  French playwright, actor and director (ps. of Alexandre Georges- (1885 - 1957)
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• You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

  Fran Lebowitz
  American journalist (1950 - )
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• Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

  Octavio Paz
  Mexican Poet, Essayist (1914 - 1998)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• second-rate
• first-rate
• eventually
• characters
• wide-awake
• nightmare

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