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To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.
I pretended to be a Cheyenne guide. I pretended to be a prairie woman. I pretended Henry was my old-timey husband taking me to our new homestead. I leaned down and patted Trouble's neck. "Good boy," I said. "Trusty steed.
You could pretend at anytime,
but please not when laughing.
If you don't know how, why pretend?
It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.
How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?
Pretending/imagining is pretty much the real thing if you do it well enough (if not better)
Don't Pretend Fake Be Original Pretend To Be
His voice was soft and demanding. "How could you think I was pretending?"
Damn if he didn't sound sincere.
Once you can fake sincerity, you can fake anything.
I was always a 'let's pretend' kind of kid.
When you don't know what you're doing, fake it.Fake-- Jill Shalvis
You can pretend anything and master it.
I can fake anything.
For a minute, I could pretend that I meant everything to her, because she was certainly starting to mean everything to me. And if you pretend something long enough, it eventually becomes
real. Right?
You should be careful about who you pretend to be, because who you pretend to be - is actually who you are!
Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.
Pretend was a big part of my childhood.
Pretending, or dissimulating, leaves the principle of reality intact: the difference is always clear, it is simply masked, whereas simulation threatens the difference between the "true" and the "false," the "real" and the "imaginary.
How can I pretend that nothing happened?
Weirdly enough, I don't like to pretend. I try to use things in me, and translate them into the situation and the characters, so it always needs to run through my own veins.
Pretending doesn't require expensive toys.
All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.
Pretend and it will be true.
You are who you pretend to be
He had learnt how to feign pleasure in a state of pain; how to feign a rosy picture if there was a gloomy affair; how to feign profits when there were losses. And the art of feigning benefited him in his life, at least in business...
It was interesting, how much of adult life consisted of pretending.
Looking back on our lives, we invariably find that the person we pretended to be is the person we became.
Before I was known, I would go on stage and pretend I was other people. Once I pretended I was mentally handicapped. It was really wrong. One time I was a bad magician. And one time I pretended I was a Christian comic.
We are pretenders.
pretended we were partners, but the whole time she'd
I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.
Words can be said easily, but one can't fake actions.
That's the thing about acting - you can't fake it.
We were pretending, and everybody knew you didn't get hurt pretending.
Oh I never fake it... I make it a point never to reward bad behavior
Pretending to him that she felt something would be easy. Pretending to herself that she didn't? That was a whole other story.
They were enjoying it. Whether they were faking or not, they were enjoying it.
I've always been good at pretending. At playing roles.
I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.
Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
When pretending starts, growth stops
Don't go on pretending to be someone you are notPretending-- Sizzla
I never want to fake it. That's my whole thing.
Pretending doesn't keep you safe.
It is much harder to pretend than it is to simply be who you already are.
I don't pretend anything anymore. I don't have time, desire or energy to calculate anymore.
The fake missed sincerity.
There was no instinct to pretend - there was only the wish to protect the girl I knew I would love forever.
Life was too damn short to pretend to be something I wasn't
If you're gonna pretend to be something, then you have to at least live up to what it is.
So you faked it to give Zimbardo a better study?" I asked. "It was completely deliberate on my part," he replied. "I planned it. I mapped it out. I carried it through. It was all done for a purpose. I thought I was doing something good at the time.
Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.
fake people notice the most fake things in the most real people
If I go on talking and talking ... and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don't forget, but you bear it better.
I mean, it's impossible to fake anything if you've already seen the other person in a way they'd never choose for you to. You can't go back from that.
The fact is, He just wasn't interested in those who fake it.
life pretending to be someone they're not." He
Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.
What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending ... we gotta let ourselves be.
Pretending to drink coffee was similar to faking an orgasm.
Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.
What happiness was there in a pretend life?
Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended ... and then believe it.
I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be and I finally became that person. Or he became me. Or we met at some point.
Control is part of faking it
It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved.
So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?"
"Not likely! I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!
Oh honey, have you learned nothing from these plays? Ain't such a line between faking and being.
Some people fake their death, I'm faking my life.
The simple, brief experience of imagining oneself as another transformed both self-perception and, through this transformation, behavior. The maxim "fake it till you make it" gains empirical support.
People pretend to be other people because they have never thought of their true selves
Well, it would have been easier if it were put on. But the only ruse of which I'm guilty is to have pretended for so long before coming to you that nothing was wrong. Pretending that the personalities did not exist has now caused me to lose about two days.
Wow. I thought I was the only person at this school faking every moment.
You're just trying on different identities, like everyone in those Shakespeare plays. And the people we pretend at, they're already in us. That's why we pretend them in the first place.
Protest. Vianne was not alone in her desire to pretend
I pretended that lying frozen on the ground wasn't pure terror at work, that it was an actual plan versus being entirely too frightened to move.
Apparently I couldn't even pretend to be normal.
Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.
When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.
If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.
A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time.
To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.
Frustration is the beginning of the end of pretending.
I'll pretend to be anyone or anything other than myself, but the problem is that no one is ever fooled.
if you don't know what you're doing or have no idea how you managed to get where you are . . . fake it.
A careful fake is better than the truth. The truth lacks realism.
I'm making this confession without hope for absolution.
One morning, I pretended to go crazy. Perhaps in pretending, I proved myself so.
Pretending is the fastest way to believing, and believing is the fastest way to receiving.
You are what you pretend to be.
How long can you pretend to be something before you aren't pretending anymore?
It's best to keep acting real.
If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?
To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.
And while she pretended he was someone else, he would pretend she had no reason to imagine he was anyone other than who he was.
Every time I hit the ball on the wall I uses to pretend I was there (Wimbledon). When I went to sleep I used to pretend I was there.
I wait for him to say the words, I'm done pretending.
I don't know how to be anything but pretend," I replied, and it ached in me how true that really was. "But if I could be real, I'd be real for you.
Being is like pretending.
The problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!