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Everyone wants to pretend like they sprang out of the ground with an Animal Collective record in their hands and a David Bowie haircut, and that's just not the case. You discover these things gradually.
Patrick Stump
You
Animal
Collective
Everyone
Out
Pretend
Record
Case
David
David Bowie
Haircut
Like
Bowie
Discover
Hands
Gradually
Just
Wants
Ground
Things
A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.
Patti Smith
Me
Pretending
Pretend
Audience
Continue
Lot
Want
My kids paid the price for my career. We can say it's for our family, but it almost never is. It's about us. It's just some of us can pretend better than others.
Paul Haggis
Family
Better
Others
Our
Say
Kids
Pretend
Some
About
Price
Never
Almost
Than
Just
Us
Paid
Career
We can no longer pretend that business is immune from the rising tide of environmental or social challenges or that companies can create value in isolation from the communities of which they are a part.
Paul Polman
Environmental
Business
Challenges
Value
Isolation
Pretend
Immune
Rising
Part
Longer
Tide
Which
Social
Create
Communities
Companies
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. My parents also took me to ballet school, and there I think I was able to start communicating those feelings or emotions - I danced for so many years.
Penelope Cruz
Character
Me
Emotions
Remember
School
Parents
Feelings
Think
Else
Took
Danced
Those
Pretend
Would
Able
Some
Someone
Also
Ballet
Years
Friends
So Many Years
Being
Them
Communicating
Acting
Many
Aware
Start
Playing
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.
Peter Ackroyd
Song
Old
Believe
Else
Peggy
Peggy Lee
Pretend
Something
Something Else
Suppose
Like
Know
Lee
Any
Going
Want
Far
Beliefs
I used to pretend I was into speed garage when I hated it.
Peter Crouch
Speed
Pretend
Hated
Used
Garage
I don't pretend to be any different just because I win tennis matches, so hopefully brands appreciate my approach and my likeability, because it's who I am.
Petra Kvitova
Win
Approach
Hopefully
Pretend
Tennis
Because
Matches
Am
Brands
Any
Just
Different
Just Because
Who
Appreciate
Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.
Philip Roth
Game
Pretend
Novelist
People like to pretend that all women have the same experience or that all gay people have the same experience. But everyone's life is different, and everyone's point of view is valid.
Phoebe Robinson
Life
Gay
Women
Experience
People
Valid
Everyone
Pretend
All Women
Point
Point Of View
Like
Same
Different
View
I don't try to pretend to be what I'm not. I don't feel I need to do anything outrageous.
Pixie Lott
Try
Pretend
Outrageous
Feel
Anything
Need
We all want to pretend that there isn't evil in the world. We all want to pretend that there aren't people trying to take us out and different things like that.
Powers Boothe
People
World
Evil
Out
Pretend
Take
Like
Trying
Different
Want
Us
Different Things
Things
I would pretend to be a dark-skinned princess in the Sahara Desert or one of the Bantu women living in the Congo... imagining I was a different person living in a different place was one of the few ways... that I could escape the oppressive environment I was raised in.
Rachel Dolezal
Women
Few
Living
Ways
Pretend
Would
Could
Environment
Princess
Sahara
Oppressive
Escape
Person
Different
Place
Congo
Different Person
Different Place
Desert
Raised
Imagining
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.
Rachel Simmons
Life
You
Experience
Wife
Husband
Single
Motherhood
Own
Living
Our
Please
Mine
Pretend
Critique
Life Experience
Allowed
Qualified
Officially
Whether
Workaholic
Uniquely
Chose
I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four.
Radha Mitchell
Together
Pretend
About
Had
Always
Were
Friend
Going
Fantasy
Hollywood
Used
Twins
Four
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.
Randy Bachman
Spiritual
Wonderful
Sunday
Club
Every
Think
Pretend
Religions
Drifted
Rather
More
Look
Most
Go
Yes
Than
Just
Exploring
Away
Saturday
Acting is playing pretend, playing a children's game at an adult level, but with children's rules. It's fun to play bad guys. I've never been in a fight in my life, so it's fun to play something that's different.
Ray Liotta
Life
Game
Fight
My Life
Rules
Bad
Pretend
Bad Guys
Something
Guys
Adult
Never
Been
Children
Different
Acting
Fun
Play
Level
Playing
I'm not on the stage going, 'Look at me! I'm amazing!' I accept my vulnerability, don't pretend I'm something I'm not. I don't want to come across as fake.
Rebecca Ferguson
Me
Amazing
Stage
Pretend
Something
Come
Look
Accept
Vulnerability
Fake
Going
Want
Across
It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
Renata Adler
History
Generation
Experience
Own
Pretend
Simply
Self-Defeating
Always
Than
Younger
Your
Families always have these unspoken dramas, and at holidays, everyone is supposed to sit down and pretend that none of that is going on.
Richard LaGravenese
Sit
Down
Dramas
Everyone
Pretend
Unspoken
Supposed
None
Always
Families
Going
Holidays
I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.
Richard Price
Love
Music
Learning
Fly
Sax
Pretend
About
Know
How
Listen
Much
Why
Playing
Chance
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.
Ricki-Lee Coulter
Myself
Day
Me
Try
Single
Every
Kid
Lock
One Day
Dream
Pretend
Would
Would-Be
Put
She
Houston
Hit
Little
Note
Room
Little Kid
Used
Whitney
Whitney Houston
Her
I don't think any of my kids would have a good word to say about me. I think they deny that they even know me. At school, they pretend they are Anton du Beke's kids.
Rob Brydon
Good
Me
School
Word
Think
Say
Kids
Pretend
Would
About
Know
Deny
Any
Even
I grew up watching 'Power Rangers,' 'Ninja Turtles', 'Batman.' You name it, I was a huge fan. And that's what I used to play with my friends. We would have the masks and the swords and pretend we had super powers.
Robbie Amell
You
Power
Batman
Ninja
Rangers
Pretend
Would
Super
Had
Masks
Name
Powers
Huge
Up
Friends
Huge Fan
Fan
Grew
Used
Play
Swords
Watching
I've got a presence on all the social networks, in fact, but I've never once sent a message. I'm there because otherwise, someone's going to pretend to be me.
Robert Smith
Me
Otherwise
Once
Pretend
Someone
Networks
Fact
Never
Message
Because
Got
Going
In Fact
Social
Sent
Social Networks
Presence
I've got a Facebook page, but I've never put anything on it. I've got a presence on all the social networks, in fact, but I've never once sent a message. I'm there because, otherwise, someone's going to pretend to be me.
Robert Smith
Me
Facebook
Otherwise
Once
Pretend
Someone
Networks
Fact
Never
Put
Message
Because
Got
Going
In Fact
Anything
Social
Sent
Page
Social Networks
Presence
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