Jonah Hill

I've learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, it's important to knock them down a peg.

American Actor

Nadiya Hussain

What's happened to society is we've become really pretentious. But there was a time in my life where I really had to choose between boiling potatoes and paying my gas bill, so I'd buy a can of potatoes.

British Chef

Kim Kardashian

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.

American Celebrity

Horton Foote

Early on, I said to myself that I would like to write a kind of moral and spiritual history of a place. It sounds a little pretentious, I know. But that's really what I set for myself.

American Playwright

Jane Green

I'd like to think I'm not quite so pretentious as to think my characters go off and live their lives once I've written the final page and switched the computer off.

English Author

Princess Nokia

Sometimes people think that I'm maybe pretentious or just weird, a fraud, or fake, because I have a formal education and speak properly and give people respect.

American Musician

Georg Baselitz

I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious.

German Artist

Kerris Dorsey

I listen to music because that's such a huge part of my process; not to sound super pretentious, but that's a big part of what helps me get in character.

American Actress

Yoko Ono

I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.

American Artist

Nick Robinson

A worldly actor is a better actor. It sounds pretentious, but I think having these experiences can translate back into your work.

British Journalist

Pretentious implies someone exaggerates their understanding or importance, often in specialized areas.

Overstated Knowledge

In art and literature discussions, being called pretentious suggests a lack of authenticity or genuine understanding.

Cultural Awareness

The term 'pretentious' often carries a negative judgment, implying disapproval of someone's attitude.

Negative Tone

Pretentious behavior may involve exaggerating wealth or sophistication with possessions or lifestyle.

Status Symbols

Pretentiousness can make a person seem unapproachable or out-of-touch.

Social Perception

Pretentious can describe someone mimicking higher social class behavior or tastes.

Imitation of Class

 told me about his proposed system called the World Wide Web and I thought well that's kind of pretentious name it's basically the whole system ran out his computer in his office but he was completely convinced that his world wide web would take over the world one day and I tried to persuade me to write the browser for it because his system didn't

The day I turned down...

 So today I want to talk about how to do it. In a lot of time thinking about this, I've come up with what I call the general theory of walkability. A bit of a pretentious term, it's a little tongue-in-cheek, but it's something I've thought about for a long time, and I'd like to share what I think I've figured out.

4 ways to make a city...

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