There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.
I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
I used to pretend to be an expert on various kinds of music, even if they didn’t really interest me.
The telecom industry pretends like it’s not getting paid.
Without McFly, who are we? Trying to find out and pretend you’re happy with that new version of you was really difficult.
I was never honest. My father died, and I had never said to him, ‘I’m gay.’ I knew what I was, but I had to pretend not to be that to avoid the beatings.
A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.
Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?
I’m a novelist: I spend a great part of my day pretending to myself that I’m in a different world, being a different person, faced with decisions I pretend I haven’t created.
The classic story of the Univision network is the mainstream pretends that the network doesn’t exist, but then when it comes to sweeps or the ratings, they just have millions and millions more viewers than ABC, Fox, and CBS combined; it’s that kind of a success story.
The chance to talk to so many people and understand what they’re thinking about and why it matters is really, really so interesting. When you’re doing that, you have to truly listen to what people are saying. You can’t just pretend to listen.
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
Acting was something that just came along. But I made good money, so it wasn’t something I was just going to put aside and pretend it didn’t exist.
The real issue that I have is the erasure people are trying to do with my very valid feelings in regard to how plus-size and fat people are treated in fashion. The way that people just kind of overlook us and pretend that, you know, we don’t have style, that we aren’t trendy or fashionable. It’s dehumanizing.
You can’t look at people being crucified. Even if you know it is just pretend.
When I first moved to London, I used to pretend to be on the phone. I used to talk about stuff that was going on out loud. To my phone! I don’t do that anymore!
When I was little, I had a feeling that I was going to end up being an actress. I spent a lot of time alone, I was a very shy girl, and I would pretend I was telling someone about this new role that I got.
I think that always, as an actor, I don’t want to overstep or pretend that I’m doing anything more than I’m doing.
Sometimes I watch myself on ‘The Hills’ and I’m like, ‘Whitney, could you, like, maybe pretend to be more interested, or say something of some substance instead of just giving looks?’
With the pervasive popularity of rap music and a black man sitting in the White House, there’s no reason to pretend the NBA has been handicapped by the blackness of basketball.
Some people just want to make up the funny things and play pretend.
In terms of so-called fly-on-the-wall documentaries, there’s a claim that the camera is a transparent window into a pre-existing reality. What really is happening is that the film crew and the subjects are collaborating to simulate a reality in which they pretend the camera is not present.
I would love to pretend I don’t diet, but I work very hard. I stay active and eat very healthy. Anybody who says otherwise is either unhealthy or lying! I will admit that I’m addicted to sugar – licorice, Jujubees and jelly candies. And I actually love bran muffins!
Men are born privileged in the scale of things – I’m generalizing, but it’s true. Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that will pretend that there is no fight or no battle, that it’s a cliche, that feminists are reactionary, all these things.
Nuclear apocalypse – who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops.
Sometimes it’s funny for me to just pretend I’m a movie character, and think what would you do if this was a movie? Or, what would you do if you were one of your icons?
Sports – especially the NBA – function as a place where American society pretends to discuss and pretends to solve questions and historical agonies that can’t possibly be solved within the realm of sports.
You can be 24 and continue to live like you’re at college, or even continue to live like you’re in high school. Or you can put on a shirt and tie and pretend to be an adult.
I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I’d do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I’d pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I’d scream, ‘Ow, ow, put it back!’
You have to pretend to live in those clothes that they lived in, to live within the climate that they had then. You have to imagine with the help, obviously, of all the other technicians that are around – the writer, the director, the other actors.
A lot of people had misconceptions that I throw tantrums and am very arrogant, and I knew ‘Bigg Boss’ will change that. You cannot pretend for 105 days in front of more than 100 cameras. I know myself, and I was confident that the world will also get to know and understand me through this show.
People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.
I love stories. When I’m writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we’re cavemen, we’re sitting around the fire, and I’m telling you stories. If I bore you, you’re probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.
Because Katrina put it out there, no one can play the pretend game anymore that there isn’t poverty and inequality in this country. The Millions More Movement – Katrina gives it added significance.
Behind my door at home, that’s when I’m relaxed, and that’s when I can allow the emotions or whatever – to feel just what I want to feel – so a lot of people don’t know me in that respect. I need a bit of space, a bit of a place to come home to and not have to pretend or perform anymore, where I’m just myself.
Well, I’m not going to sit here and pretend that I haven’t been a rogue most of my life.
The thing I hate the most in any kind of writing is self-righteousness. Where you pretend you don’t have the same kinds of flaws your subject has.
I can’t even pretend to play golf.
The general trend in television is to be more transparent, and that is especially true for women: to not pretend that we wake up with our hair in perfect shellacked bobs.
What irritates me are bands that pretend they’ve never heard of the Misfits or Danzig, but they’ve got the skeleton shirt.
I listened to this book, ‘The Beauty Myth,’ about how beauty standards are messing with women in Western society, and I was like, ‘I don’t know this.’ I have no idea, and I don’t pretend to, but now I’m more aware of it because I’ve engaged on that frequency.
I like to sing along to Annie Lennox and pretend to be as sassy as her.
Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.
I didn’t like Barbie dolls, so I used to have this overactive imagination, and I used to pretend to be all these different things. My weird childhood fetishes seem to have come to life now as an actor.
The rules of Canadian engagement say that if we encounter a celebrity, we have to pretend we’re not encountering a celebrity.
Let’s not pretend that all of a sudden, this is some new system.
I think what irritates both conservatives and liberals alike is when news outlets pretend that they don’t have an agenda but then clearly do, be it in the editorial decisions they make and the guests they have and the material that they cover.
I don’t pretend to be perfect.
Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let’s pretend.
I was always snobby about soap operas, and commercials, too, but one does have to eat. I remember auditioning for a commercial for a mouthwash or chewing gum or something, and I had to pretend to be the back end of somebody in a horse costume. After that, I said, ‘That’s it. That’s it. You’ve sunk too far!’
And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.
We all try to pretend we’re the person we want to be when we’re really not, and you’ve just gotta be willing to say, ‘Here are all my flaws; here’s who I am – take it or leave it. If you love me still, then let’s do this.’
I could lie and pretend that I hunt and camp, but that wouldn’t be me. Clothes? Shopping? That’s stuff I like!
I do find it strange, doing magazine shoots. Photographers always go, ‘Why don’t you like to have your picture taken? That’s what you do for a living anyway. Just pretend you’re acting. It’s the same thing!’
