I don’t pretend that I can imagine myself as a Palestinian.
My particular demigod is the Sonics point guard Gary Payton, who is one of the most notorious trash-talkers in the National Basketball Association. He’s not really bad. He’s only pretend bad – I know that – but he allows me to fantasize about being bad.
He is very nice and down to earth despite all his money. In public, Roman likes to pretend he doesn’t speak English but he is actually good to talk to.
Everything about ‘Adventure Time’ is the purest form of kid’s play. A kid does not live in the Land of Ooo. That is one of the wonderful things about the show; it doesn’t pretend to be real. That was the great thing about ‘Pee Wee’s Playhouse’; it existed in a world completely outside any reality a kid recognized.
It doesn’t pay to pretend that Vietnam was not a criminal war.
If you’re 5′ 6″, just stay home. Don’t pretend you’re 5′ 8″ or 5′ 9″. If you want to be a beauty model, I guess that’s fine, you can do glamour, but you’re not going to do runway. If you’re over 29 – 26, even – I would suggest you work regionally and not try to work nationally.
I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don’t really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.
I know my voice has a limited range of motion; I don’t write dramatic monologues and pretend to be other people. But so far, my voice is broad enough to accommodate most of what I want to put into my poetry. I like my persona; I often wish I were him and not me.
Mind you, I’ve always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.
Even if people pretend that they’re OK with it, jealousy can eat people alive.
For most of my life I’ve liked to pretend I live in a starship. Punching in fake codes to get into doorways that obviously are not secure. I love that idea of living on a spaceship. Because essentially we are: a gigantic thing floating in some infinite darkness that’s running on principles that we don’t even understand.
Obscenities… I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can’t think of what they want to say and they’re frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren’t very smart – want to be just one of the boys.
If you see harassment happening, speak up. Being harassed is terrible; having bystanders pretend they don’t notice is infinitely worse.
One summer, when I was elementary-school age, my neighbors and I built guitars and keyboards out of scrap wood, painted them in bright colors, and formed the cover band Lil’ ‘D’ Duran Duran. We didn’t make our own noise or even pretend to play our fake instruments.
That’s one of the great lies of intimacy, to pretend you know everything – you cannot. No matter how close you’ve been, over however many years, there remain secrets. I think we all know that – that you don’t tell everybody everything.
At the end of the day, you’re saying lines and playing pretend. All that varies from show to show is the level of the intensity and the terms of the expectations you place on yourself.
There are certain people who I worked with, Pamela Anderson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, they are figures. And they know this. They don’t pretend to be good actors. They were made by the industry into figures.
I never really thought of myself as a physical comedian. But when I was a kid, I used to, you know, pretend to trip over things to make girls laugh in school and stuff like that. So I kind of learned how to fall without hurting yourself.
I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.
I was the eldest daughter with these four beautiful younger sisters with ringlets and pretty faces, and I used to dress them up in Victorian clothes and take them out for the day and pretend they were mine.
I used to pretend I was into speed garage when I hated it.
Because the worst of all worlds is when you pretend like you have an immigration policy, you make coming into the United States without our permission illegal, and then you actually don’t enforce it.
In the Premier League, they don’t give a foul even when it is a foul. We can’t dive or pretend things.
As much as we like to pretend we’re just getting on stage and whatever, it’s like, no, I practiced in front of the mirror my whole life.
I can’t pretend to be enjoying this. I can’t pretend I’m enjoying going out there and playing this style.
As a young girl, I used to dream of giving an interview. You dream of stardom as a kid. People think they don’t want to be stars. Everyone wants to be a star! That’s the truth. Even grownups; they pretend they don’t want to be one and don’t care. But everyone wants to.
Sometimes you think about the job that we, as actors, do. I take it very seriously, and I care very much about it, but I’m paid to make believe. When you’re a kid, you go to your friend’s house, and it’s, ‘Let’s pretend we’re both cowboys!’ Without belittling it, that’s basically what I do – I tell stories.
I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I’m alone in the world and I’m just sort of abandoned.
Iran stands behind a substantial number of terrorist actions against us, together with Hizballah and the Islamic Jihad. It pretends to care for the Palestinians.
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
It’s still thrilling, even if my work is something that people even pretend they’re interested in on a first date or at a cocktail party.
I’m not going to pretend to know one more thing than I know.
Adults don’t have the opportunity to pretend anymore.
Wear what you want to wear. Do what you want to do. Be who you are. Pick out your own clothes. Be a man. And if that’s too much to ask, as it almost always is for me, think of someone you consider to be a man and pretend to be like him. I pretend to be like my dad.
Some adults would rather pretend that bad things don’t exist than to talk about them.
I can’t stand people who are backward. I am honest, straightforward. I don’t like to pretend. And I will not change either.
I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I’m part of the human world.
My favorite thing to do as a kid was pretend I was in the opening credits of a sitcom. As the theme song would play, I’d look up at the imaginary camera and smile as my name would flash on the screen.
I want a politics that doesn’t need to pretend to be holy or perfect or infallible. I want a politics that gets on with it.
There’s no way to be a 30-year-old band, go on tour, and pretend the nostalgia isn’t happening.
Growing up, I idolised Madhuri Dixit. She’s my favourite actress, and I used to pretend I was her all the time.
My playground was the theatre. I’d sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that’s pretty seductive.
I remember playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them – I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else.
I’m not a housing market expert, and I don’t want to pretend to be one.
Donald Trump, an oft-bankrupt make-believe mogul clown with a television show where he pretends to fire America’s saddest former celebrities, is one of the Republican Party’s most prominent national figures because he is on TV and people have heard of him.
It’s important to understand you can’t remove the historical context of racially charged stereotypes or slurs as much as we like to pretend that we can.
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.
As a little kid, I used to lock myself in my room and put on my Whitney Houston CD’s and pretend to be her and try and hit every single note that she hit. I used to dream that one day that would be me.
It’s better to be honest about your opinions than to pretend you don’t have them.
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar – you pretend it’s not there.
I guess the Democrats have to pretend to be more pious than the Republicans because they are under suspicion of not being.
Almost half our representatives in Washington apparently know more about science than our scientists. Or they pretend to, because big corporations give them a lot of money to make sure they can keep doing the destructive things that they do.
I engage in the use of game theory. Game theory is a branch of mathematics, and that means, sorry, that even in the study of politics, math has come into the picture. We can no longer pretend that we just speculate about politics; we need to look at this in a rigorous way.
One Christmas, I wrote a nativity play. But nobody turned up on the day of the performance apart from my brother and my cousins, so I just read the whole script onstage and made my brother pretend to be one of the animals at the inn.
