#pretend

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me. ↗

— Cary Grant

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I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor. ↗

— Alec Guinness

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The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender. ↗

— Philip Guedalla

#arrangement #divisible #henry #henry james #i

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting. ↗

— John Hurt

#business #essence #game #me #other

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. ↗

— Claude Monet

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People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love. ↗

— Claude Monet

#discuss #love #necessary #people #pretend

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

#belongs #calls #delightful #everybody #good

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite. ↗

— Jean Kerr

#becomes #being #eventually #hypocritical #learns

If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak. ↗

— Satish Kumar

#follow #go #go to hell #hell #individual

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

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