#tending

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

— Serj Tankian

#live #make #pretending #us

We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#pretending #pretense #danger

But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it. ↗

— Richie Benaud

#actions #annoys #commercial #doing #find

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#believe #get #great #hard #just

I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left. ↗

— Julian Clary

#act #away #being #gay #i

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#fatherhood #love #most #present #pretending

I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now. ↗

— John Ritter

#be yourself #because #doing #grew #i

I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics. ↗

— Vernon L. Smith

#basic #became #economics #foreign #gradually

Being is like pretending. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#like #pretending

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