"There are all these levels of pretension in LA. Every time you walk into a cafÃ© or a bar or a restaurant in LA everybody turns around to see if you're famous. Everybody can seem like a celebrity. You can meet somebody who looks like Joe Schmoe and he turns out to be the head of HBO or something. Or you meet a person who just won an Oscar and he looks like he just won an Oscar. And it's a sprawling city, there's so many different parts to it."

-- Ottessa Moshfegh

#Different Quotes #Pretension Quotes

“Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or taking things to a ludicrous extremity.”

Source : "Mark Leyner on 'War, Inc.'". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. May 22, 2008.
“Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.”

Source : Anna Deavere Smith (2008). “Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind”, p.76, Anchor
“About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations.”
“My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me.”
“You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.”

Source : Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.198, Broadway Books
“TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.”
“It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.”
“Spanish football is very good but every year the same teams win the league.”

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