Let’s keep it real – the only time some right wingers pretend they care about protecting women from sexual assault is when they want to discriminate against the trans community.
I’m not gonna sit and pretend I’m hard as nails.
With voice-over, you have to pretend like you’re three, except you can talk and read.
Ever since I was a kid, this is all I’ve ever wanted to do. I used to pretend to be a WWE superstar.
When I was a kid, I used to look in the mirror and pretend I was Elvis.
Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to ‘own’ them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.
If you’re a fan of One Direction, 2015 felt like one hit after another. Between Zayn leaving and the band announcing their hiatus, this was the year that Directioners would love to pretend didn’t exist.
The SPLC pretends to oppose ‘hate,’ but actually spreads hate and defamation, with the support of the media and government.
All I did as a child was pretend to be James Bond or Marlon Brando. When I was about four, I put on my dad’s work boots and went up and down the street with his walking stick pretending to be Charlie Chaplin.
I am not going to pretend that flying a spaceship will be as safe as getting in a 747 with four engines for a flight across the Atlantic.
I had a Jewish grandfather. We managed to hide this fact from the authorities by falsifying documents, my father and I. His father was Jewish, but because my father was an illegitimate child, it was rather easy to pretend that his father was unknown.
Basically if you’re trying to write films in England you might as well decide to hide for two years. It’s just meetings with people who don’t really have any money but pretend they do.
The love of Christ is not a pretend love. It is not a greeting-card love. It is not the kind of love that is praised in popular music and movies.
I have always maintained a strong opposition to marriage because I would have to be in serious denial to pretend I wasn’t born with a personality for divorce. Whatever the opposite of amicable is, that’s how my breakups tend to play out.
A crook is a crook, and there’s something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But any guy who pretends he is enforcing the law and steals on his authority is a swell snake. The worst type of these punks is the big politician.
Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
What kid doesn’t want to pretend they’re James Bond?
I like to be myself, and I don’t pretend. For instance, I don’t dress up for occasions; I am what I am.
A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.
The thing about taking risks is, if it’s really a risk, you really can fail. It’s only a pretend risk if you really can’t fail.
When my kids started preschool, the teachers had to take away all the fake bananas because all the boys would pick them up and pretend that they were guns. Boys find sticks to play swords and anything that looks like a gun to shoot. It’s just inside of them. It’s who they are.
I don’t pretend to be an ordinary housewife.
Before I even started to school, I sometimes would hide behind the radio, which would be sitting on a table, and pretend that I was on the air and try to fool people who came by to listen.
The Nihilistic Troll might pretend to be acting in the service of some cause or leader, but don’t be fooled. The cause and their supposedly strong convictions are simply a way to justify and provide cover for their abusive behavior.
I had been nominated for an Academy Award for my performance as Sandy Lester, Dustin Hoffman’s neurotic, struggling actress girlfriend, in ‘Tootsie.’ Under Sydney Pollack’s direction, ‘Tootsie’ had been a runaway hit starring Dustin as an unemployed actor who pretends to be a woman in order to land a role in a soap opera.
You can’t pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can’t fake that.
Whether you chose a passive-aggressive husband, workaholic wife, or life of single motherhood, we are all officially allowed – and uniquely qualified – to critique our own life experience. Please don’t pretend you’re living mine.
I go to the lab and in order to interact with my postdoctoral students and try to see if I can shape them to not copy but to ask questions and to think. We have to have a little dialogue because you don’t pretend to be the fountain of all wisdom.
You have to be yourself. You can’t pretend to be somebody else.
Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
Bands have good nights, and they have bad nights. I’m not going to cover up anything or pretend. For me, personally, that’s just my thought process.
Suspensions convey the critical message to students and parents that certain behavior is inconsistent with being a member of the school community. Pretend suspensions, in which a student is allowed to remain in the school community, do not convey that message.
I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball.
I don’t pretend to be a great interviewer; I don’t even pretend to be good at my job.
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.
I used to love, love Steve Martin. I still do… I would get these albums, and I would just listen to them all the time. I would stand in my room and pretend that I was delivering his comedy routine… And I don’t know if that planted any kind of seed, but I wasn’t raised going to the theatre.
Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn’t poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
Well, I think that I have a complicated relationship with whiteness because oftentimes, I pass as white, and I recognize that. I would be disingenuous to pretend that I don’t pass as white.
I don’t pretend to be anybody else but me.
I would always fall down the big main staircase in our house. My favorite thing in the world was to pretend to be horribly killed at the top of it, and to fall dramatically down to the bottom of it.
I dress the way I want. I don’t pretend to be someone I’m not.
We can’t pretend that a Facebook friend is the same as a real friend you’ve shared times with together, both good times and difficult times.
I don’t really drink, but the one thing I really hanker after is Zubrowka vodka. If it’s someone’s birthday, I’ll pretend I like red wine for about three sips.
I look on most religions as fear-based rather than love-based. I’ve drifted away from all that. Yes, I think I’m more spiritual. I just don’t go and pretend every Saturday or Sunday that I’m in this wonderful club. I’m exploring.
I’m not ‘one of the guys.’ I don’t want to pretend to be one on stage. I’m not going to dress like a guy or carry myself like one.
Keep a copy of ‘Islands in the Stream’ by Ernest Hemingway on the left hand side of your desk. Keep Fitzgerald’s ‘The Crack Up’ on the right. When you get stuck, pick them up and pretend that they are having a fight, like you used to do with your GI Joes.
I am gentle. I think nearly everyone who makes music is sensitive – I don’t care how hard they pretend they are.
One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.
There’s stuff in this world, everybody pretends they understand. But we don’t understand. It’s important to listen.
I didn’t pretend that I was good at writing music, so I wrote terrible music, intentionally. As time went on, the terrible subsided, and I started getting good.
There’s someone on Twitter who pretends to be me but as long as he doesn’t say anything damaging, I don’t care. Let him get on with it.
Writers who pretend that everything they’re doing is completely new are full of it.
It’s the beauty of the Web. You can pretend to be anything you want. But people figure out pretty quick if you don’t live up to it.
I always like to pretend two things: one, I’m sitting in the seat beside you watching the game together. I’ll say, ‘Wasn’t that a great shot? Boy, it sure was.’ The other thing I do is pretend I’m talking to people who are non-sighted. I try to create a word picture. I get more mail from blind people thanking me.
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have been.
Nobody but an idiot would pretend that they had an error-proof way of choosing the ‘best’ out of hundreds of perfectly qualified applicants – not for university or for anything.
Women in Hollywood have no male allies. There are some who pretend to be on our side, but yeah, not really. They may say the right thing because, after all, they’re liberals, and that’s a public image they’d like to keep up.
When I first thought about wrestling, I thought about it as this foreign thing that I would have so much trouble accessing, and then, day one of researching it, I was like, ‘Oh, I know what this is! This is theater. This is playing pretend.’ It was really easy to connect to.
