#pretend

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#bugs #diamond #fingers #hold #i

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. ↗

— James Madison

#against #charged #danger #home #liberty

Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. ↗

— James Madison

#against #charged #danger #home #liberty

A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance. ↗

— David Mamet

#conservative #gay #get #greater #liberal

I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#brave #i #i can #pretend #whole

I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about. ↗

— Jackie Mason

#anybody #art #because #becomes #comedy

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

The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised. ↗

— Trevor McDonald

#discovery #fake #genuine #must #pretend

It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about? ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#after #costumes #dress #earth #frivolous

I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this. ↗

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

#because #bit #cinema #close #close relationship