#pretend

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

I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#deeply #else #fortunate #gain #had

I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#i #know #pretending

I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone. ↗

— Patti LaBelle

#handle #i #kid #microphone #pretended

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

#anything #away #because #began #benefits

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. ↗

— Kurt Russell

#along #aside #came #exist #going

That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people. ↗

— Andy Samberg

#people #phenomenon #pretending #strange

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. ↗

— George Santayana

#contradiction #every #itself #mockery #moment

Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#equally #existence #existences #few #leibniz

I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#attractive people #because #choose #i #i can