#pretended

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 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

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served. ↗

— Jane Jacobs

#dishonest #disorder #even #exist #ignoring

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

My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we were real thieves and called the cops! Soon, the cops burst in with guns drawn! ↗

— Josh Hartnett

#called #cops #dairy #drawn #films

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure. ↗

— I. F. Stone

#burlesque #difference #exposure #former #never

The craziest thing I've ever done to get a guy's attention? I admit I stalked someone. I showed up at a restaurant where I knew the guy worked, and we were actually good friends and had lost touch, and I pretended that I didn't know he worked there. ↗

— Rachel McAdams

#admit #attention #craziest #done #ever

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