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pretending
«If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is a law, and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.»
Author: Dan Millman
| Keywords:
alter, amount, Be Free, Forever Free, free of, hold on, obligations, pain-free, predicament, pretending
«It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.»
«It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.»
Author: Nick Hornby
| Keywords:
collections, disagree, favorite, films, it No, no-good, pretending, record, to each other, violently
«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.»
Author: Northrop Frye
| Keywords:
conventional, copyright, disguised, distinctive, elaborately, element, patented, pretending, work of art
«Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself»
Author: Katharine Hepburn
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
acting, at the same time, childish, Nice, pretending, profession, selling
«I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.»
Author: Leonardo DiCaprio
(Actor)
| Keywords:
deform, deformed, deforms, jumping, pretending, retarded
«Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.»
Author: Bill Cosby
(Actor, Comedian, Producer)
| About:
Family,
Fathers
| Keywords:
fatherhood, pretending, rope, soap
«I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
all the time, double, have-not, hypocrisies, hypocrisy, leading, pretending, wick, wicked, wickedest
«Every national church or religion has established itself by pretending some special mission from God - as if the way to God was not open to every man alike»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
alike, church, established, established church, established religion, mission, missions, national, open to, pretending, special