Sara Gruen Quotes

Although, pretending not to notice is almost worse than noticing.

Sara Gruen

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• I've spent a lot of time in America since Sept. 11, 2001. Being here, I was noticing that the people, who in the '60s used to voice their opinions about their rights, are much different today. People are afraid to voice opposition to the government in a mass way.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending you can use machinery that thinks faster than you do. An electric typewriter is ready to go before I have anything to say.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Faster

• You get paid and you get venerated and worshipped for pretending to be somebody else.

  

  Ian Astbury The Cult
  • Paid
  • Pretending

• Donghae always act cute. Not that he's pretending but he is naturally cute.

  

  Yesung
  • Cute
  • Pretending

• Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • People
  • Interested
  • Pretending

• . . . you may think I waste my breath Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Thinking
  • Passion
  • Pretending

• What actors are good at doing is walking into a situation that should make you incredibly self-conscious and frightened and doing it anyway. That's the gig, pretending that you are comfortable.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Walking
  • Situation
  • Pretending

• When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Mean
  • Cry
  • Musical

• I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Friendships
  • Sake
  • Pretending

• That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

  

  Saoirse Ronan
  • Acting
  • Pretending

• ... we can no longer afford to throw away even one 'unimportant' day by not noticing the wonder of it all. We have to be willing to discover and then appreciate the authentic moments of happiness available to all of us every day.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Moments
  • Wonder
  • Happiness

• Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.

  

  Mike Mills
  • Actors
  • Lying
  • Findings

• Becoming a writer can kind of spoil your reading because you kind of read on tracks. You're reading as someone who wants to enjoy the book but also, as a writer, noticing the techniques that the writer uses and especially the ones that make you want to turn the page to see what happened.

  

  Homer Hickam
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Kind

• We might mean different things. How can you tell? Only by reading each of us carefully and seeing what each of us has to say—not by pretending that we are both saying the same thing. We’re often saying very different things.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Reading
  • Pretending

• Half of life is pretending. The other half is pretending.

  

  Chris Campanioni
  • Life
  • Half
  • Pretending

• I deserve someone who likes me for who I am pretending to be.

  

  Arj Barker
  • Deserve
  • Someone
  • Pretending

• She's not my type,' Carter says. 'So what is your type?' 'Tall, skinny, black hair, blue eyes, freckly nose. Blue tinsel wig and snowflakes optional.' 'Skinny?' I squeal. 'Definitely. Pretending to be shy, sensible and stand-offish when really you're mad about me.' 'You sure about that?' 'No, but I'm hoping.

  

  Cathy Cassidy
  • Black
  • Mad
  • Shy

• When you focus on how people feel about what they are saying, you increase the level of true concern you have for others. You actually start to become the person you thought you were pretending to be: a true leader!

  

  Garrison Wynn
  • Focus
  • Leader
  • Concern

• She is all that is gracious, Her spirit is comely, The work of her hands is fair.

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Work
  • Spirit
  • Hands

• I came to America when I was seven and a half in 91. I think the first full length book in English that I read was Return to Oz when I was nine years old.

  

  Mila Kunis
  • America
  • English
  • Lenght Book

• Things work once you have property, trade and contract in place.

  

  William G. Kline
  • Place
  • Property
  • Contract

• Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Bad
  • Song
  • Sometimes

• Guns, double-crosses, hitmen... I can get used to a lot of things, but I'm never going to get used to sleeping where apocalypse bugs mate,” Wednesday said, walking into the room looking around. She dropped her Birkin on the floor and heard something scuttling behind the cheap plastic wood print veneer covered dresser. She turned to face Alvin, her head cocked to the side. “Seriously. I'm not saying five-star... I'm saying go on Expedia and find a place that actually has stars... any stars.

  

  Dennis Sharp
  • Things
  • Stars
  • Heard

• Although, pretending not to notice is almost worse than noticing.

  

  Sara Gruen
  • Pretending
  • Noticing