The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what’s best for everyone else because it is the most effective way to manipulate you and your children into their abyss.
See, all actors pretend. I enjoy that pretence. I don’t wear heels in real life, but if it is for a character, I love to get into the traits of the person I am playing.
Pain is one of the unavoidable facts of life. We Bidens have had our share. We don’t pretend otherwise. And we don’t pretend that we are different from families all over America that have to face the loss of loved ones or have to deal with the fallout of divorces.
I’m pretty boring with pizza toppings. I only ever eat margherita. If it’s ever anything else then I’ll just go ‘mmm’, pretend to eat it, then throw it in the bin.
I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger.
I’m a walkawayer. If someone brings me a really crap meal in a restaurant I will tell them it’s wonderful and then just never go to the restaurant again. I think that’s the best way to do it generally, rather than sit and fight and annoy your head. Just pretend to enjoy it and then leave.
The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people. In order to do this, they had to forget, or pretend to forget, all they had previously known abut the Africans.
Probably the biggest challenge for me as a director was to not show how scared I was. I was surrounded by some of the most talented people in the industry, and I had to pretend I knew what I was doing.
It is too exhausting to try and make everyone happy or pretend.
I sing in Hungarian. I read Hungarian. I do not pretend to speak Hungarian, but I sing in languages that I have studied as languages. And I find that to be central and very, very helpful. I think if you’re not really cognizant of what every single word means, I think that might be a little tricky.
Shooting a movie should be fun! It’s not a real job. It can be hard, but at the end of the day, we’re dressing up and playing pretend.
For my kids, it’s just weird to see your dad pretend to be someone else. It’s weird to see your father make out with another woman. It’s not cool.
Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me.
I have a physical background. It’s not like I’m a kung fu master, but my real training was dance school, and through that, I move to this thing called Capruera that I used in ‘Ocean’s 12.’ I can pretend that I can do a lot of things, but then, I don’t really master anything.
I pretend I’m one of the royal family when I’m in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me – it is a palace.
Indian junk food is my sin, even though I pretend to like Japanese.
You can’t pretend to be witty because wit is dry, subtle, lacerating, cynical, elitist, and risque – all impossible to fake. Humor, on the other hand, is broad, soothing, positive, inclusive, and smutty – to make sure everybody gets it. Pretending to be humorous is easy, and a great many people are doing it.
Nothing is more embarrassing than calling someone the wrong name, but nothing is harder than trying to pretend you know someone’s name when you don’t.
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.
If you pretend to be somebody that you’re not when you write songs – and I did that on some of the early Styx albums – nobody cares about what you have to say.
I’m not going to pretend to be anything I’m not.
Bigg Boss’ is a show where you cannot fake or act. And most of these television actors pretend to be the characters they play. I accept the audience doesnt know me, but they will, and I am sure they will fall in love with me too.
My father always pretends to hate Christmas. But when we were children he was the first one waking us up, saying: ‘Do you think Father Christmas has been yet?’
I think that episode in the third season was great. I’m really glad that we did that. He got to sleep with Sydney and kill Evil Francie and go on a mission and pretend he’s a rock star.
In so far as I have any beliefs, I suppose I’m like that old Peggy Lee song, ‘Is That All There Is?’ I want to believe there’s something else going on, but what that something else is I don’t pretend to know.
Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.
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.
I loved going to superhero films growing up – you come home, and you pretend to be those people, and it ends up informing much of what you aspire to be. And that’s what I will say is important about the genre.
A period piece is a great opportunity for an actress. I love acting because I love to pretend, and when you’re doing a period piece, then even the time you’re in is pretend, so there’s that much more to play with.
Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
I always believed that I had to pretend to be happy. But what I’ve learned is that it doesn’t matter what race or class or demographic you come from. I truly believe that sadness is relative.
We cannot pretend we do not have problems; we cannot pretend things are not wrong in our country. A lot of things are wrong.
When you pretend for a living and you have to pretend in your private life as well, it’s very sad. Because it’s intangible, depression is an issue that people don’t like to talk about. It’s like a huge, guilty secret.
I took the whole college prep trajectory, and then in my senior year of high school, I decided that performing was something that I had always done as a kid, and I loved it… I said, ‘This makes people happy when I do this, I feel good, I get to pretend and explore other areas and learn so much’.
I had one guy pretend to be me, go to a hotel room, and tell the people at the front desk that it was me, and then he went in and stole all of our luggage. There’s always that eager beaver that wants to be a part of the team and comes off as a sticky fly.
Acting is a funny job because you’re always playing a hundred levels of pretend, but when you’re working with great designers who end up doing a lot of that work for you, you can focus on the things you want to focus on.
I’m a real freedom fighter. I’m not a pretend freedom fighter. I stand up for other actresses, other people.
When you pretend to be an authority on everything, it forces your subordinates to defer to your opinion – which may not be the most informed in the room. If you have humility concerning the gaps in your experience or ability, it allows others to shine.
A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.
We wish we had known that success takes time, that it’s gonna require an unimaginable amount of hard work, that you’re going to have to pretend you know what you’re doing even when don’t, and that as cheesy and cliche as it may sound, following your heart is actually… the key to everything.
Imaginary friends are one of the weirder forms of pretend play in childhood. But the research shows that imaginary friends actually help children understand the other people around them and imagine all the many ways that people could be.
We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals. No, I refuse to pretend the problem is insufficient knowledge. We lack the theological will to do it.
The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they’re not.
It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
Sometimes I’ll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But then somebody will be like, ‘Where did you say you were from again…?’ And then I panic, and my accent dissolves, and I pretend like I wasn’t doing it in the first place.
I’m not one of those people that pretends he doesn’t watch himself.
Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don’t pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know for sure: as long as we’re alive, choosing resurrection is always worth the risk.
Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.
If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can’t write at all, so I pretend there aren’t any.
There’s a difference between knowing what to do when you’re rehearsing it, and being able to do it once you’re adrenalized and emotional. That’s when the injuries occur. Actors all want to try to pretend that they’re experts at everything, but we’re not.
While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of ‘difficult’ poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there’s room for ‘difficult’ poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won’t be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.
