"You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur"
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"Hollywood was fine with fakes, but it was most definitely not okay with frauds."
"Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing."
"...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand."
"You have to look at every one of your songs and be able to identify with them in a meaningful way. You can hardly sing your songs unless you're in them. If you want to fake it, go ahead. Fake it if you want. But I'm not that kind of singer."
"It's always disappointing when people decide for one reason or another that they don't like your work anymore, but you can't try to please people, because then you're just going to be doing - you'll never live it down, y'know it'll always be dogging you around - you might be being a fake about the whole thing."
"I only really fake it anymore with sommeliers who are being really snotty to me and I don't want to take their grief and so I try to do something to kind of throw them off or put them on the defensive, even if I don't know what I'm talking about"
"Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence."
"My definition of fake news is a content-like object that is a story, an article, a video, a tweet that has been fabricated, completely invented out of thin air, intentionally for the purpose of misleading."
"There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all."
"I would so much rather have a few of good friends than a lot of fake friends."
"Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over."
"The Two Most Important Words In The World Are Honesty And Sincerity, If You Can Fake These You've Got It Made."
"Me: "If you want me to be a teenager, don't send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake ID so I can go to clubs, drink vodka, and take pot." Mom: "You don't take pot, for starters." Me: "See, that's the kind of thing I'd know if you got me a fake ID."
"Fake food -- I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut -- is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking."
"If God had wanted women to have giant, fake boobs he'd be a lot like my brother."
"Here's my thought about fake breasts: If I can touch them, they're real."
"I was a bore and didn't know when to smile or fake it. Or rather worse, I did but didn't."
"Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women."
"All of the good, weird stories I’ve written are based on things I’ve dredged out of my subconscious. That’s the real stuff. Everything else is fake."