#pretend

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#careful #must #pretend

Was she acting entirely consciously? No: women are always sincere, even in the midst of their most shocking duplicities, because it is always some natural emotion which dominates them. Perhaps, having given this young man such a hold on her, by having openly demonstrated her affection for him, Delphine was merely responding to a sense of personal dignity, which led her either to revoke any concessions she might have made or, at least, to enjoy suspending them. Even at the very moment when passion seizes her, it is perfectly natural for a Parisian woman to delay her final fall, as a way of testing the heart of the man into whose hands she is about to deliver herself and her future! ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#duplicities #future #heart #love #passion

Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#pretend #richelle #richelle-goodrich #words #writing

So it wasn't actually that bad, it took a couple of weeks to sort of get used to uh, you know, standing around and pretending to have ice shoot out of your hand, but once you got used to that it uh, it was actually not that hard. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

#around #bad #couple #get #got

I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens. ↗

— Andre Agassi

#answers #because #day #every #every day

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else. ↗

— George P. Baker

#else #felt #human #human being #immature

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#dare #embarrass #liberating #pretending #risk

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else. ↗

— Bette Davis

#because #become #dislike #else #often

Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor. ↗

— Anthony Edwards

#attendant #back #doctor #flight #flying

But I always communicate with the audience. I never pretend like I'm just in my bedroom making a track. The whole point of doing a gig is, like, a feedback thing between you and the audience. ↗

— Tom Jenkinson

#audience #bedroom #between #communicate #doing