Dolls Quotes - Page 5

Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

Thinking, Brain, Russian Dolls

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You're sad because you're sad. It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical. Go see a shrink or take a pill, or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll you need to sleep. Well, all children are sad but some get over it. Count your blessings. Better than that, buy a hat. Buy a coat or a pet. Take up dancing to forget.

Margaret Atwood

Children, Sadness, Sleep

Margaret Atwood (2015). “Morning in the Burned House”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

Samuel Butler

Prayer, Children, Men

Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.25, ReadHowYouWant.com

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The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended.

Holly Black

Party, Tea, Propriety

Holly Black (2012). “Tithe”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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She was happy, and perfectly in line with the tradition of those women they used to call "ruined," "fallen," feckless, bitches in heat, ravished dolls, sweet sluts, instant princesses, hot numbers, great lays, succulent morsels, everybody's darlings . . .

Jean Genet

Sweet, Princess, Numbers

Jean Genet (1994). “Querelle”, p.84, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm not. I clear my throat to show myself that everything is normal. It's like the little Japanese girl they found in the ruins of Hiroshima. Everything dead; and she was singing to her doll.

John Fowles

Girl, Thinking, Singing

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It's a weird kind of disconnect that this whole story [he Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] grew around a real doll of mine, and here he is, with his "Edward" expression on his face. It's kind of reality bumping into fantasy.

Kate DiCamillo

Real, Journey, Expression

Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.

Harper Lee

Flower, Good Luck, Two

Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.36, Infobase Publishing

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Sophie is asking mum ‘Why am I NOT a doll NOT an adult NOT a boy NOT a giraffe?’ It’s so easy to miss all we are when we focus on what we are not!

Christine Caine

Boys, Focus, Missing

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I'm definitely a lash girl. I feel they are my best feature. I have tried lots of mascaras. I was drawn to Lancome Doll Lashes recently. Not only because of the name, but it smells like roses! I usually add a few coats of it for a night out.

Chloe Sevigny

Girl, Night, Names

Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. April 17, 2012.

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Even while starting out I took things very seriously; I wasn't the sort of kid that would do a doll commercial or do a series for Nickelodeon. They asked me to do silly things, and I wasn't a silly kid.

Kristen Stewart

Silly, Kids, Starting Out

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Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.

Pete Townshend

Wind, Events, Curls

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During the First World War, I told her, Hitler had been a runner, delivering messages between the German trenches, and he was disgusted by seeing his fellow soldiers visit French brothels. To keep the Aryan bloodlines pure,and prevent the spread of venereal disease, he commissioned an inflatable doll that Nazi troops could take into battle. Hitler himself designed the dolls to have blond hair and large breasts. The Allied firebombing of Dresden destroyed the factory before the dolls could ever go into wide distribution.

Chuck Palahniuk

War, Hair, Soldier

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What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves -- our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies.

Margaret Atwood

Mother, Wish, Suits

FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from May 10, 2015

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My favorite band at the moment is the Dresden Dolls, they're from Boston. It's a guy and a girl. She plays piano and he plays the drums and she also sings. You can find them on the web they're incredible.

Gerard Way

Girl, Boston, Play

"Interview With Gerard From My Chemical Romance". Interview with Mike T., www.metalunderground.com. June 11, 2004.

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We are rag dolls made out of many ages and skins, changelings who have slept in wood nests, and hissed in the uncouth guise of waddling amphibians. We have played such roles for infinitely longer ages than we have been human. Our identity is a dream. We are process, not reality.

Loren Eiseley

Dream, Sleep, Reality

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Yeah, baby! I didn't get to keep the pink baby doll outfit, but I wish I did because people are always telling me I should wear it.

Cindy Margolis

Baby, People, Wish

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I first came to London as a musician, and when my group broke up, I did 'Guys and Dolls' at the Watford Palace theatre. After that, Ned Sherrin found me and brought me to the West End to do one of his shows. The work went from strength to strength, so I thought: 'This is where the world wants me; I'll stay.

Clarke Peters

Guy, Theatre, Musician

"Clarke Peters: 'Lester Freamon's the guy I'd like to grow up to be'". Interview with om Lamont, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2010.

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...But I don't think I'm the only person who is tired of books and movies full of paper-doll characters you don't care about, who have no self-respect and no respect for anybody or any institution....And I don't want to sound preachy or Victorian, but I'm tired of amorality in fiction and in real life. Immorality is a fascinating human dilemma that creates suspense for the readers and tension for the characters, but where is the tension in an amoral situation? When people have no personal code, nothing is threatening and nothing is meaningful.

Olive Ann Burns

Meaningful, Real, Book

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I am an opera virgin; I'd far prefer to see a musical such as 'Guys and Dolls.

Sophie Thompson

Guy, Musical, Opera

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To his ex-wife in court, he said I lost interest in you when the Botox lost its effect and you looked like a plastic doll that escaped from a fire.

Peter Jackson

Fire, Wife, Botox

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She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed to be.

Francesca Lia Block

Numbness, Mouths, Emptiness

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As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beating heart and blood. A lot of hot, sticky blood.

Chuck Palahniuk

Real, Heart, Cutting

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What is a turducken? An exclusive culinary creation available by special order from some little Cajun town down south. Entirely deboned, a turducken consists of a turkey, stuffed with duck, stuffed with a chicken, like an edible Russian nesting doll. Some were stuffed with alligator, crap, shrimp; my favorite was the traditional cornbread variety.

S.A. Bodeen

Order, Turkeys, Ducks

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Rhythm and sex go together and that's where I come from as far as the music goes. Rag Doll and Love In An Elevator are such sexual songs that you put them on & the strippers go NUTS!

Joe Perry

Song, Sex, Nuts

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