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I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.
Pamela Hanson
Art
History
Photography
Pretentious
Classes
Some
Colorado
Studied
Although
Felt
Art History
Did
Really
University
When I say I want to become a legend, some people say it's pretentious. For me, it's a challenge. My desire, a dream. I'm not saying I'll get there, but it's what I want.
Paul Pogba
Saying
Me
People
Challenge
Pretentious
Some People
Become
Legend
Say
Dream
People Say
Some
Get
Want
Desire
It felt like a pretentious fantasy to say, 'I want to be an actress.'
Pom Klementieff
Pretentious
Say
Like
Felt
Want
Fantasy
Actress
Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.
Richard Thompson
Great
Entertainment
Pretentious
First
Thinking
Too
First Of All
Well
Becoming
Artists
Stops
Us
I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh.
Rosamund Pike
You
Try
Seriously
Pretentious
First
Think
Our
Everything
Laugh
Take
Lighten
Heads
Ideas
Know
Until
Terribly
Sort
Up
Very
Get
Actor
I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
Sadie Frost
Too Much
Pretentious
Young
Too
Trendy
Find
Make
Lot
Effort
Young Filmmakers
Much
Filmmakers
I don't want to get pretentious, but there's an art to doing sitcoms; you have to make it work in that format.
Sean Maguire
Work
Art
You
Pretentious
Make
Doing
Get
Sitcoms
Want
Format
Getting up to dance to your own stuff looks pretty pretentious. And leaving the dancefloor when it comes on is just awkward.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Dance
Pretentious
Own
Pretty
Stuff
Looks
Leaving
Up
Getting
Just
Your
Awkward
I never watch TV. I know I'm missing so much, aren't I? I'm probably not. I can't stand popular TV. I've got too much to do to watch it. I know that sounds pretentious and pompous, but there you are.
Stephen Rea
You
Too Much
Pretentious
Too
TV
Never
Missing
Know
Got
Sounds
Pompous
Much
Stand
Popular
Watch
Americans' distrust of the conspicuously intellectual - a habit we learned, I suppose, on the frontier, but which remains a feature of the national character - has the virtue of puncturing the pretentious and exposing the fake, but it may also have impaired American listeners' patience for music that is especially complex or austere.
Steven Stucky
Music
Character
Patience
Pretentious
National
Virtue
Complex
Conspicuously
Distrust
Impaired
Feature
Habit
Remains
Suppose
Also
Learned
Fake
National Character
Intellectual
Austere
American
May
Listeners
Frontier
Which
Exposing
I have always been interested in theater, as an actor and as someone who looks upon theater - at the risk of sounding pretentious - as an icon by which we measure society... My life has been in the theater to an extent. It's only an extension to write, direct, produce, whatever.
Wayne Rogers
Life
Pretentious
My Life
Whatever
Society
Has-Been
Direct
Someone
Risk
Only
Write
Looks
Always
Been
Which
Theater
Interested
Icon
Produce
Measure
Who
Actor
Extension
Extent
I'd love to do a Michel Gondry film. That would be ideal! I'd love to do an Almodovar film; you know, I think he's very, very talented. I don't care that people say he's pretentious. So what? He's a good director; he can be pretentious.
William Moseley
Love
Good
You
Director
People
Care
Pretentious
Think
Say
Would
Would-Be
People Say
He
Ideal
Talented
Know
Very
Good Director
Film
I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.
Yael Naim
You
Pretentious
Think
Everything
Way
Paris
Had
Perfectly
Like
Opposite
Arrived
Years
Years Ago
Goes
Just
Famous
Wanted
Then
Planned
Fast
Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.
Yuna
You
Job
Pretentious
Kind
Superficial
Tend
Could
Know
Well
Spotlight
Very
Forget
Artist
Being
Who
Sometimes people think that I'm maybe pretentious or just weird, a fraud, or fake, because I have a formal education and speak properly and give people respect.
Princess Nokia
Education
Respect
People
Speak
Sometimes
Pretentious
Think
Fraud
Give
Properly
Weird
Because
Fake
Maybe
Just
Formal
Formal Education
It sounds a bit pretentious, but I'm never really conscious of what I'm doing musically.
Jon Hopkins
Pretentious
Bit
Musically
Never
Doing
Sounds
Really
Conscious
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