One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.
I wouldn't say I'm a connoisseur of film. I like certain films, but I don't pretend to be a connoisseur of films, no.
I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
It's disingenuous to... pretend the sources of our money don't impact the policy we write - you just can't serve two masters.
I used to pretend that my Peugeot driving to the gym in the rain in Dublin was a Ferrari on the Vegas strip.
When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.
We really can't forecast all that well, and yet we pretend that we can, but we really can't.
Change is the only constant, and to turn one's back and pretend that it is not coming is an exercise in futility.
Gentlemen and ladies are sure of their ground. They pretend to nothing that they are not.
I ended up gettin' a little Gibson amp and a bass, because of Gene Simmons of Kiss. Myself and three other kids would pretend to be Kiss - I liked Gene the best.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.
I'm not a housing market expert, and I don't want to pretend to be one.
I'm not going to ask musicians to sit there and pretend to play. It feels insulting to the musicians to me.
I don't pretend to be a great interviewer; I don't even pretend to be good at my job.
What irritates me are bands that pretend they've never heard of the Misfits or Danzig, but they've got the skeleton shirt.
I think what irritates both conservatives and liberals alike is when news outlets pretend that they don't have an agenda but then clearly do, be it in the editorial decisions they make and the guests they have and the material that they cover.
For me to pretend I'm the keeper of the small town mentality or that's all I'm interested in is wrong.