I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.
I never want to be an artistic bully, and put myself above anyone else... or be more prestigious than anyone else. You like what you like, and you have to take that as you want it.
You may have done 20 great shows in a row and come to one, and it doesn't work. You never presume anything.
I certainly would never presume to play another race of a person. Diversity is important in Hollywood, and I would never want to feel like I was playing a character that was offensive.
I believe we must seek God's will, never presuming to identify it with our own program or power.
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
Israel knew that there was no greater gift than to be given God's name, but that gift was a frightening reality that threatened to consume her. Israel, who would be tempted by the idolatrous presumption she possessed God's name, rightly never forgot she could not say God's name.
I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.
I would never give advice, because I would feel very presumptuous.
I never declared I wanted to be an astronaut, as I considered that was presumptuous.
We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.
I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be funny without being dirty.
There were no examples of girls like myself becoming successful actresses. To be an actress in England was a serious, upper-middle class girl's profession. I just thought I would never be accepted unless I pretended to become somebody I wasn't.
We've never played at this place before. This place is big, and I'm kinda nervous, so we're going to make it feel small by pretending we're in a... bedroom. We'll hang off the edge of the bed, take off our shoes and get naked!
I've never been a fan of pretense or procrastination. After all, our state is defined by its independent, outspoken spirit.
I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, 'Do what I do.' I think it's a little pretentious to say, 'I'm a role model'; I would never say that, and I don't think of myself that way.
I never want to be pretentious.
I would never want the responsibility of being the prettiest girl on screen; it's too much.
I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
