#pretend

It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#america #bit #came #fear #immigrants

It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun. ↗

— Dashiell Hammett

#hear #i #nearby #pretend #shotgun

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#men #men and women #must #pretend #valuable

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God. ↗

— Adam Smith

#cheerfulness #christian #course #david #dyed

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#live #make #pretending #us

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#exciting #frankly #i #liberating #pretend

There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing. ↗

— David Letterman

#because #behavior #believe #courage #courageous

I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#i #liked #my own #myself #other

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending. ↗

— Patti Smith

#continue #lot #me #pretend #pretending

It wasn't that she was different from all the other girls at Jackson. That was obvious. It was that she made me realize how much I was just like the rest of them, even if I wanted to pretend I wasn't. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#kami-garcia #pretend #beauty