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When you're a business man, you have a lot of businesses, a lot of times they think you're laundering money or you're pretending you're writing things off that you don't.
Damon Dash
You
Man
Business
Writing
Money
Pretending
Think
Lot
Off
Times
Businesses
Things
Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?
Dan Savage
Man
Women
Pretending
Dream
Besides
Marrying
Some
Husbands
Divorce
Court
Boyfriend
Go
Get
Going
I feel really lucky that I grew up pretending to be a spy for my whole childhood.
Daryl Sabara
Pretending
Feel
Spy
Up
Childhood
Grew
Really
Whole
Lucky
We've never played at this place before. This place is big, and I'm kinda nervous, so we're going to make it feel small by pretending we're in a... bedroom. We'll hang off the edge of the bed, take off our shoes and get naked!
Dave Matthews
Pretending
Nervous
Naked
Edge
Big
Before
Shoes
Our
Kinda
Small
Take
Never
Feel
Make
Bed
Bedroom
Off
Get
Hang
Going
Place
Played
I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years.
Dennis Miller
Best
Me
Sports
People
Job
Pretending
Down
Think
Broadcasting
Had
Always
Years
Fun
Thing
Two
The thing a writer has to avoid is being the 'voice' of his people and pretending he can speak for them.
Derek Walcott
People
Speak
Pretending
Voice
Writer
He
His
Being
Them
Avoid
Thing
I'd rather be a face for happiness and doing things that you have a passion for, rather than faking it and pretending like I'm this face of women's basketball, when I can't stand the sport at all.
Elena Delle Donne
Happiness
You
Women
Passion
Pretending
Face
Rather
Like
Sport
Faking
Doing
Than
Stand
Things
Basketball
The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.
Emanuel Celler
People
Will
Pretending
Party
Our
Our People
Guise
Never
Freedoms
Democratic
Protect
Democratic Party
Them
Desert
The Internet has become a bunch of interlinked but linguistically distinct and culturally specific spaces. There's some interface between them, but there's a lot less than there was years back when we were sort of pretending that this was one great global space.
Ethan Zuckerman
Great
Space
Internet
Pretending
Become
Back
Distinct
Some
Between
Global
Sort
Were
Years
Lot
Bunch
Than
Spaces
Them
Interface
Less
Specific
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.
Florence King
Positive
Great
You
People
Impossible
Humor
Pretending
Cynical
Inclusive
Other
Everybody
Humorous
Broad
Pretend
Easy
Soothing
Wit
Make
Dry
Sure
Because
Fake
Witty
Doing
Hand
Gets
Subtle
Many
Elitist
Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.
Francis Spufford
You
Culture
Illusion
Pretending
Sense
Fluffy
Our
Thoroughly
Systematic
Demands
Contemporary
Well
Common
After
Common Sense
While
Might
Requires
Dispense
Belief
I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real.
Fred Melamed
Character
Me
You
People
Pretending
Think
Other
Way
Kids
Pretend
Wearing
Only
Like
Always
Real
Were
May
Just
Being
Different
Regarding
Which
Moving
Really
Acting
Speaking
Coat
Different Way
Playing
I remember thinking, 'I can't act.' Pretending to be someone else is a terrifying thought. The thing was that, along with other people, I could create a whole world. I felt absolutely right directing.
Garry Hynes
People
World
Remember
Thought
Pretending
Thinking
Other
Else
Someone
Directing
Could
Absolutely
Along
Terrifying
Felt
Create
Act
Whole
Right
Thing
Most women are happier at home! They're pretending that they like working, but they're not making money because they don't stay all night at the office. They don't go the extra mile.
Gavin McInnes
Home
Women
Money
Pretending
Extra
Extra Mile
All Night
Stay
Like
Most
Because
Making
Making Money
Go
Women Are
Office
Happier
Working
Mile
Night
Scoring goals is the best feeling in the world. It's a habit. It's a drug. Everybody runs away in the playground pretending they've scored in front of thousands of people. I do that for real.
Glenn Murray
Best
People
World
Goals
Pretending
Feeling
Everybody
Thousands
Thousands Of People
Runs
Habit
Real
Scoring
Front
Away
Playground
The joy of hate reflects people who get off pretending to hate something, or hate you, in order to score political points. I call them the 'tolerati' - you know, a group of people who claim to be tolerant, except when they run into someone who disagrees with them.
Greg Gutfeld
You
Hate
People
Joy
Political
Pretending
Group
Claim
Run
Someone
Something
Except
Points
Know
Call
Score
Off
Reflects
Get
Order
Them
Who
Tolerant
I'm happier not pretending I know anything about El Cid in Spain. He's a Spanish national hero. I'd rather invent a character inspired by him but clearly not identical to him. And then I feel liberated creatively.
Guy Gavriel Kay
Character
Hero
Pretending
Invent
National
Liberated
About
Rather
Inspired
He
Feel
Clearly
Know
Identical
Him
Anything
Happier
Spain
Spanish
Then
Creatively
I'm from really humble beginnings. I've never been this Hollywood diva, but you get caught up in what you're pretending to be.
Heidi Montag
You
Humble
Pretending
Diva
Never
Caught
Been
Up
Beginnings
Get
Hollywood
Really
I liked him, that Jarvis Cocker. I like the fact he was androgynous, he could appeal to everybody. He wasn't just a lad pretending to be a thug.
Ian Brown
Thug
Pretending
Everybody
Androgynous
Fact
Could
He
Like
Liked
Him
Just
Lad
Appeal
As a child, one of my defense mechanisms was to try to be funny. My mom tried to nurture that by putting me in acting class. But I got bored when we stopped pretending to be trees and actually had to work.
Ian Gomez
Work
Funny
Mom
Me
Class
Try
Nurture
Pretending
Defense
Trees
Tried
Bored
Had
Putting
Got
Child
Stopped
Acting
Acting Class
Mechanisms
Actually
The happiest that I remember myself was putting on plays and pretending to be other people.
Inbar Lavi
Myself
People
Remember
Pretending
Other
Putting
Happiest
Plays
Hillbillies learn from an early age to deal with uncomfortable truths by avoiding them or by pretending better truths exist. This tendency might make for psychological resilience, but it also makes it hard for Appalachians to look at themselves honestly.
J. D. Vance
Age
Better
Pretending
Honestly
Tendency
Uncomfortable
Look
Also
Make
Learn
Deal
Makes
Exist
Truths
Psychological
Them
Might
Themselves
Hard
Avoiding
Resilience
Early
Early Age
When I was, like, 12, I remember grabbing a mic, pretending it was a guitar, and performing in front of my friends. I didn't know at the time I wanted to be an artist.
J Balvin
Time
Guitar
Remember
Pretending
Performing
Like
Know
Friends
Mic
Grabbing
Artist
Front
Wanted
I was always dressing up as a kid in the backyard, building some sort of fort and having battles against imaginary enemies. It's often that same feeling when you're pretending for a living, but it's with bigger toys.
Jai Courtney
You
Enemies
Pretending
Feeling
Building
Living
Kid
Battles
Backyard
Some
Dressing
Having
Toys
Sort
Always
Up
Same
Often
Bigger
Against
Fort
Imaginary
Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.
James Altucher
Game
Pretending
Poker
Skill
Chance
Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.
James Gandolfini
You
Pretending
Somebody
Older
Else
Pants
Horrifying
Putting
Occasionally
Grow
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