Pretentious quotes
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Anyone without a sense of humor is too pretentious to be a good magician.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious, too narrow. Prose is more open, popular.
-- Blaise Cendrars -
Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them.
-- Daphne Guinness -
I must have been a really pretentious little girl.
-- Emily Mortimer -
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It's very hard to get pretentious about beer. You can become knowledgeable and start to talk with a highfalutin' vocabulary. But you can only go so far with beer, and I've always liked that.
-- Fritz Maytag -
America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.
-- Goldwin Smith -
We're human beings and the sun is the sun-how can it be bad for you? I don't think anything that's natural can be bad for you
-- Gwyneth Paltrow -
She's French, so she's teaching them French, and their previous nanny was Spanish, so they're fluent in Spanish.
-- Gwyneth Paltrow -
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This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.
-- Harrison Birtwistle -
I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a ghostwriter has been to elevate that form. Maybe that sounds pretentious!
-- Hilary Liftin -
I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.
-- James Herbert -
Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!
-- Jimmy Breslin -
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I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.
-- John Milius -
[Depp] has real ambitions, but he is deeply afraid of being considered pretentious.
-- Lasse Hallstrom -
In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
-- Mick Jagger -
I do consider myself to be something of a pretentious wanker.
-- Nicky Wire -
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I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.
-- Oscar Levant -
What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.
-- Peter Jackson -
Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious?
-- R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz -
I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties.
-- Rachel Zoe -
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I was a really pretentious teenager,
-- Rebecca Hall -
I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
-- Sadie Frost -
I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
-- Wale -
I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.
-- Zoe Kazan -
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There are some people I've met and it's stressful just speaking to them, because they're really pretentious and I don't know how to talk to them without being pretentious back.
-- Frankie Cosmos -
It takes a while for a photograph to mature. That sounds really pretentious, but it takes a time for it to go from here to there.
-- Harry Benson -
It's good to get stage fright. It is necessary to be scared, otherwise you have too much confidence in yourself and you start to get pretentious and do shitty things. It's good to not be so confident in yourself.
-- Jean-Benoit Dunckel -
Sometimes I might go too far with the pretentious references, which I might not do again. But when you're writing, you're sitting alone in a room so you're writing to amuse yourself as much as anybody else.
-- John Michael McDonagh -
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I never called myself a writer because it seemed so pretentious - a writer was what somebody else called you, a title bestowed.
-- Nguyen Viet Thang -
I like to carry around extremely pretentious books, and I don't know if I can read them, but if I hold them near me, it imbues me with a sense of powerful intelligence.
-- Sam Amidon
