Quotes with pretending

  • I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it.
  • The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
  • There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

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  • Ted Danson Acting is pretending that you're not pretending when you're actually pretending.
    Ted Danson
    American actor, author and producer (1947 - )
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  • John Fowles Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
    John Fowles
    English novelist (1926 - 2005)
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  • Caitlin Rose Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
    Caitlin Rose
    American country singer (1987 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Armistead Maupin I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Northrop Frye 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.
    Northrop Frye
    Canadian literair criticus (1912 - 1991)
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  • Carrie P. Meek Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime.
    Carrie P. Meek
    American politician (1926 - )
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  • Oliver Herford Modesty; the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
    Oliver Herford
    American writer, cartoonist (1860 - 1935)
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  • Ben Affleck Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Benjamin Stillingfleet Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.
    Benjamin Stillingfleet
    British botanist, translator and author (1702 - 1771)
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  • Booth Tarkington The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Adrian Edmondson There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.
    Adrian Edmondson
    British actor (1957 - )
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  • Liu Shao-Ch'I There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.
    Liu Shao-Ch'I
     
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