We have a society that is going through life not talking about what's really hard about life and trying to pretend like everything's great when it's not. As a result, people feel more and more isolated.
There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.
Movies are this thing that came into my life, and it still feels pretend in some way. I kind of do this thing, and I never really accepted this idea that I'm a film actor. That's what I do. I feel like I'm a theater actor that started doing films. Most people have never seen me in a play. They're fun, though.
In so far as I have any beliefs, I suppose I'm like that old Peggy Lee song, 'Is That All There Is?' I want to believe there's something else going on, but what that something else is I don't pretend to know.
All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
We never really are the adults we pretend to be. We wear the mask and perhaps the clothes and posture of grown-ups, but inside ourskin we are never as wise or as sure or as strong as we want to convince ourselves and others we are. We may fool all the rest of the people all of the time, but we never fool our parents. They can see behind the mask of adulthood. To her mommy and daddy, the empress never has on any clothes--and knows it.
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.
Fake it until you make it. Pretend to be somebody until that somebody turns into you.
It's hard to believe that you're really here, so I just pretend that you're not here.
We must never pretend appreciation, but if we feel it, then we must express it
That's why Apple, Microsoft and the big information technology companies have kept so much money registered abroad (although in US dollar accounts with a nominal foreign address's owner). They pretend to make their global income in Ireland. They have an office, which could be simply a postal drop box in Ireland, and claim to make all their money there, not in America.
Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you're kidding.
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
Don't buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They're bastards, and they do it on purpose.
Don't pretend to be what you are not. Don't refuse to be what you are.
Suddenly, I don't want to be this person anymore. I don't want to pretend I'm fooling the world when I'm not. I want someone else to have a plan for me, because I'm not doing a very good job myself.
A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget.
Slender Youth. A tour companion who may be either a lost prince or a girlprincess in disguise. In the latter case it is tactful to pretend you think she is a boy. Shehe will be ignorant, hasty and shy, and will need hauling out of trouble quite a lot. But shehe will grow up in the course of the Tour. In fact shehe will be the only Companion who will change in any way. Quite often, shehe will soon exhibit a very useful talent for magic and end up by hauling everyone else out of trouble. But this will not be until midway through your second brochure.
I do not know how much my own work has achieved, and I must not pretend it has done more than it has.
We may pretend we are basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.