Mask Quotes - Page 19

America needs ObamaCare like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask.

Jay Leno

Halloween, Obamacare, America

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Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this subterfuge that we are giving them no more than they deserve. It is a meanness which we associate with criminals and vagabonds; a piece of crawling and sneaking...Men whose race is universally known, will unblushingly adopt a false name as a mask, and after a year or two pretend to treat it as an insult if their original and true name be used in its place.

Hilaire Belloc

Men, Thinking, Race

Hilaire Belloc (1922). “The Jews”

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Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands in the way of forgiveness and a strategic approach to navigating a chessboard rigged to prevent pawns from becoming kings and queens.

Jason Whitlock

Queens, Kings, Pride

"LeBron's pride simply not important". abcnews.go.com. July 11, 2014.

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When I started out, I preferred to watch my films without music, as its presence tends to mask the underlying pace of the film. I felt I could feel the rhythm of the film better without music to influence me.

Paul Hirsch

Watches, Pace, Influence

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Night after night, through years of performing and directing, I've stood in awe of the audience, of its capacity for response. As if by magic, masks fall away, faces become vulnerable, receptive. Filmgoers do not defend their emotions, rather they open to the storyteller in ways even their lovers never know, welcoming laughter, tears, terror, rage, compassion, passion, love, hate--the ritual often exhausts them.

Robert McKee

Laughter, Hate, Fall

Robert McKee (2010). “Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting”, p.7, Harper Collins

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Regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny.

Jeff Daniels

Country, Art, Class

Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2010.

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When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. When I'm not at my desk, the rest of the time, I try to stay in that character and see the world the way that character would It's almost like method acting in a way — keeping the character close the way the actor keeps a script close and always tries to be in character.

Stewart O'Nan

Writing, Character, Trying

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It can sometimes be a hearbreaking struggle for us to arrive at a place where we are no longer afraid of the child inside us. We often fear that people won't take us seriously, or that they won't think us qualified enough. For the sake of being accepted, we can forget our source and put on one of the rigid masks of professionalism or conformity that society is continually offering us. The childlike part of us is the part that, like the Fool, simply does and says, without needing to qualify himself or strut his credentials.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

Children, Struggle, Thinking

Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.50, Penguin

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As the mask of deception falls off the face of humanity
Unveiling the grim reality of duality
In which everyone is a casualty, no one will be exempt
Truth has many shades
It's not a matter of black and white, but gray
Although many, we are one, so in the final analysis
Could it be that we are fighting a war that can't be won?

Morgan Freeman

War, Fall, Fighting

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To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.

George Orwell

Freedom, Gun, Hollywood Films

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.218, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Like any good drug, anger can mask all reality. But anger is not an easy emotion to call up on demand, which is why an enemy is so wonderful. You're tired. Didn't sleep well. You have zero energy. Then you get lucky. You pull into the boathouse parking lot and see your favorite enemy. Celebrate. Your workout is saved. One look at that chowderhead can put you into the angerzone. As you turn off your car, you can feel your whole physical being change. Respiration increases. The dull look on your face is magically transformed into the power-stare of a true rowing warriot.

Brad Alan Lewis

Workout, Zero, Sleep

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I think seriousness is a mask of self-importance and self-importance in turn is a mask for self-pity. So if you're really going to pursue a spiritual way of living in the world, you must be lighthearted and carefree, have humor, be able to tolerate ambiguity and embrace uncertainty, and be forgiving of yourself and everybody else.

Deepak Chopra

Spiritual, Thinking, Self

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Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations.

Deepak Chopra

Spiritual, Self, Skins

Deepak Chopra (2010). “Journey Into Healing: Awakening the Wisdom Within You”, p.13, Random House

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The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.

Frantz Fanon

Evil, Language, Bigger

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Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.

Eliphas Levi

Weakness, Vices, Poison

Eliphas Levi (1968). “Transcendental Magic”, p.353, Weiser Books

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Intimacy blossoms anytime you let down your socially acceptable mask.

Deepak Chopra

Friendship, Let Down, Intimacy

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It is time for us to take off our masks, to step out from behind our personas - whatever they might be: educators, activists, biologists, geologists, writers, farmers, ranchers, and bureaucrats - and admit we are lovers, engaged in an erotics of place. Loving the land. Honoring its mysteries. Acknowledging, embracing the spirit of place - there is nothing more legitimate and there is nothing more true. That is why we are here. That is why we do what we do. There is nothing intellectual about it. We love the land. It is a primal affair.

Terry Tempest Williams

Land, Intellectual, Farmers And Ranchers

Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “An Unspoken Hunger”, p.77, Vintage

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You can't find intimacy - you can't find home - when you're always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.

Junot Diaz

Running, Hurt, Home

Interview with Matt Okie, www.identitytheory.com. September 2, 2008.

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In masks and gown we haunt the street
And knock on doors for trick or treat
Tonight we are the king and queen,
For oh tonight it's Halloween!

Jack Prelutsky

Kings, Queens, Halloween

Jack Prelutsky (1977). “It's Halloween”, Scholastic Paperbacks

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Wave after wave has brought to our shores beautiful and mysterious treasures from unknown worlds: figurines, animals, fetishes, masks, ceremonial or useful objects. They are called Primitive for want of a better name...What could never have been written is there, all the dreams and anguishes of man. The hunger for food and sex and security, the terrors of night and death, the thirst for life and the hope for survival.

Dominique de Menil

Beautiful, Dream, Sex

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In fairytales, when the mask came off, the handsome prince still loved the girl, no matter what -and that alone would turn her into a princess.

Jodi Picoult

Love, Girl, Princess

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All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.

Maya Angelou

Hero, Men, Race

Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.20, Modern Library

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For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Travel robs us of such refuge. Far from our own people, our own language, stripped of all our props, deprived of our masks (one doesn't know the fare on the streetcars, or anything else), we are completely on the surface of ourselves.

Albert Camus

Kind, Breaking Down, Structure

"Lyrical and Critical Essays".

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Following directly behind the bier were the servants who would, in earlier times, have been slaughtered at the graveside, along with a warrior's horse. Musicians and torchbearers came next, with the rear taken up by the mimes- sinister, silent figures in wax masks modelled on dead members of the family.

Catharine Arnold

Horse, Taken, Warrior

Catharine Arnold (2008). “Necropolis: London and Its Dead”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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Pilgrimage means being alert to the times when all that's needed is a trip to a remote place to simply lose yourself, and to the times when what's needed is a journey to a sacred place, in all its glorious and fearsome masks, to find yourself.

Phil Cousineau

Mean, Journey, Finding Yourself

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