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We’re used to people coming in from out of town to play cowboy who don’t know how to use guns, you don’t hand somebody a gun until you give them safety training… No one should ever die with a real gun on a make-believe movie set. – Randi McGinn	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If you're going to have a make-believe world, which fits into this very powerful sense of developing a sense of self, dinosaurs really fit the bill. – Arthur Lavin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This board is done explaining anything to these people who are playing investigator with our constituents' ballots and equipment, paid for with real people's tax dollars. People's ballots and money are not make-believe, it's time to be done with this craziness. – Jack Sellers	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Maricopa County Board of Supervisors is done explaining anything to these people who are playing investigator with our constituents' ballots and equipment, paid for with real people's tax dollars. People's ballots and money are not make-believe, maricopa County Board of Supervisors's time to be done with this craziness. – Jack Sellers	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I do n’t judge anybody. If you want to do Botox and injectables, that’s fine ! But I do n’t want people lying on me and saying, ‘ Oh, she’s trying to make believe that this stuff works,' no, I ’m telling you what I do that works ! Please do n’t call me a liar. I do n’t have to lie about things. I’ve been pretty honest about my whole life. – Evan Agostini/Invision/AP -RRB- Lopez	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
My public image is unshakably that of America's wholesome virgin, the girl next door, carefree and brimming with happiness. An image, I can assure you, more make-believe than any film part I ever played. – Doris Day	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The entire process has become one of missed deadlines, make-believe budgets filled with gimmicks and magic asterisks. – Maya MacGuineas	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Evangeline and Paul, they were all cool, they had their suits on and it’s all make-believe, i said, there’s nothing here, man, there’s nothing here. What are we looking at? And, so you learn all of the tricks of the trade and how to be focused. – Michael Douglas	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
As a kid, this character especially, Director Rian Johnson play make-believe and Director Rian Johnson kind of imagine what it would be like. – Alden Ehrenreich	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Free play is as good for developing minds as it is for growing bodies, through unfettered play, children interact with their world and stretch their creativity. To watch young children engaged in make-believe play is to be in awe of undiluted imagination. – Linda Wasmer Andrews	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It was amazing, it felt like a movie prop, it looked make-believe almost. – Amy Catalano	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We are living in a town of make-believe. I have done about 90 movies. That means that every time I was pretending to be someone else. There comes a time in your life when you say, well, 'who am I?' i have found writing books a good substitute to making pictures. When you write a book, you get to determine what part you are playing. – Anne Douglas	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe. – Louis-Ferdinand Céline	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make-Believe! – Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe. – Napoleon Bonaparte	added by anonymous 14 years ago
With Epcot Center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life. – P. J. O'Rourke	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. – William Hazlitt	added by anonymous 14 years ago

We’re used to people coming in from out of town to play cowboy who don’t know how to use guns, you don’t hand somebody a gun until you give them safety training… No one should ever die with a real gun on a make-believe movie set.

– Randi McGinn

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If you're going to have a make-believe world, which fits into this very powerful sense of developing a sense of self, dinosaurs really fit the bill.

– Arthur Lavin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This board is done explaining anything to these people who are playing investigator with our constituents' ballots and equipment, paid for with real people's tax dollars. People's ballots and money are not make-believe, it's time to be done with this craziness.

– Jack Sellers

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Maricopa County Board of Supervisors is done explaining anything to these people who are playing investigator with our constituents' ballots and equipment, paid for with real people's tax dollars. People's ballots and money are not make-believe, maricopa County Board of Supervisors's time to be done with this craziness.

– Jack Sellers

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I do n’t judge anybody. If you want to do Botox and injectables, that’s fine ! But I do n’t want people lying on me and saying, ‘ Oh, she’s trying to make believe that this stuff works,' no, I ’m telling you what I do that works ! Please do n’t call me a liar. I do n’t have to lie about things. I’ve been pretty honest about my whole life.

– Evan Agostini/Invision/AP -RRB- Lopez

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

My public image is unshakably that of America's wholesome virgin, the girl next door, carefree and brimming with happiness. An image, I can assure you, more make-believe than any film part I ever played.

– Doris Day

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The entire process has become one of missed deadlines, make-believe budgets filled with gimmicks and magic asterisks.

– Maya MacGuineas

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Evangeline and Paul, they were all cool, they had their suits on and it’s all make-believe, i said, there’s nothing here, man, there’s nothing here. What are we looking at? And, so you learn all of the tricks of the trade and how to be focused.

– Michael Douglas

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

As a kid, this character especially, Director Rian Johnson play make-believe and Director Rian Johnson kind of imagine what it would be like.

– Alden Ehrenreich

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Free play is as good for developing minds as it is for growing bodies, through unfettered play, children interact with their world and stretch their creativity. To watch young children engaged in make-believe play is to be in awe of undiluted imagination.

– Linda Wasmer Andrews

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It was amazing, it felt like a movie prop, it looked make-believe almost.

– Amy Catalano

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are living in a town of make-believe. I have done about 90 movies. That means that every time I was pretending to be someone else. There comes a time in your life when you say, well, 'who am I?' i have found writing books a good substitute to making pictures. When you write a book, you get to determine what part you are playing.

– Anne Douglas

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

– Louis-Ferdinand Céline

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make-Believe!

– Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

– Napoleon Bonaparte

added by anonymous
14 years ago

With Epcot Center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life.

– P. J. O'Rourke

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

– William Hazlitt

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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