I remember playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them - I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else.
There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.
I guess the Democrats have to pretend to be more pious than the Republicans because they are under suspicion of not being.
The new music, the bebop and modern jazz, wasn't music to him. It was choppy noise pretending to make music out of traffic jams.
Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.
I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four.
We can pretend that China is not there. But China is there, and unless we put our economy on the right track, it is going to overwhelm us completely.
Still enveloped in a blanket of dreams he (life) continued to lie still, pretended as if he was in a deep slumber.
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
My parents didn't know what to do with me, so they just pretended I was normal, and that worked out quite well for me.
Never trust someone that claims they care nothing of what society thinks of them. Instead of conquering obstacles, they simply pretend they don't exist.
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
Could you attempt, at least, to make yourself presentable? I know this is a war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party.
Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and you're pretending to be afraid!'
Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.
Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice - is a prescription for disaster for the young.
People want to spend time together and I just couldn't pretend that I wanted to do that. But now I do get it. [..] Though I still don’t do that.
Reader: Dear Mr. Snicket, What is the best way to keep a secret? Lemony Snicket : Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you are kidding.
I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.
There is no compromise when it comes to someones delicate feelings, the only way out is to stop pretending and set yourself free from someones life.
Pretend to give consent to the advice of others, but if you find it suitable,take it. But if out of the right view, despise and cast it away
