#tending

What was frustrating about Armageddon was the time I spent not doing anything. It was a big special effects film, and I wasn't crazy about pretending I was in outer space. It feels ridiculous. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#anything #armageddon #big #crazy #doing

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#being #brought #detail #entertained #familiar

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#conventional #copyright #day #disguised #distinctive

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting. ↗

— John Hurt

#business #essence #game #me #other

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation. ↗

— Michael Ledeen

#civilization #nation #pretending

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#good mood #mood #pretending #sometimes #thing

Raising the traditional and early retirement ages will mean extending workers' taxable earning years, fueling economic growth and putting a dent in our unfunded-liabilities crisis by delaying payouts. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#crisis #dent #early #earning #economic

I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#believed #closer #get #i #pretending

My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling. ↗

— John McCarthy

#attending #energy #hobby #meetings #more

I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#best #broadcasting #down #fun #had