#pretended

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression. ↗

— Quintilian

#creates #excellent #fault #impression #our

I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me. ↗

— Arthur Bremer

#hit #home #i #living #me

Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it. ↗

— Florence King

#about #been #best #cigarette #even

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

— Patti LaBelle

#handle #i #kid #microphone #pretended

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter. ↗

— David Sedaris

#i #never #pretended #reporter

I was in a play in elementary school and had to jump up and run away. I was nervous and tripped and fell down and everyone laughed. Their laughter made me relax, so I pretended it was part of the show. ↗

— Sherman Hemsley

#down #elementary #elementary school #everyone #fell

Before I was known, I would go on stage and pretend I was other people. Once I pretended I was mentally handicapped. It was really wrong. One time I was a bad magician. And one time I pretended I was a Christian comic. ↗

— Andy Dick

#before #christian #comic #go #handicapped

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

— Cary Grant

#finally #i #me #person #pretended

We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans. ↗

— Jim McDermott

#agent #later #no problem #orange #pentagon

There are occasions when I've pretended to be in a firefight, and then there are people who have really been in a firefight. Clearly it's absolutely ridiculous, and even disrespectful, to suggest that I understand what that is. ↗

— Christian Bale

#been #clearly #disrespectful #even #i