Mask Quotes - Page 25

• The important thing is to use the role as a trampoline, a chance to study and play with what is behind our masks. Creativity, especially where acting is concerned, Is boundless sincerity, yet disciplined.

  Jerzy Grotowski

  Creativity, Play, Important

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• Let's be honest. You let yourself be pulled in because it felt good to be wanted, needed. But then it went too far, as projected images always do. If it's not a real image, but one that has been projected on to you, then you can keep up the masquerade for only so long before the mask cracks and the paint on the mask peels away.

  Tori Amos

  Real, Long, Cracks

  Tori Amos, Ann Powers (2008). “Tori Amos: Piece by Piece”, p.299, Crown Archetype

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• A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.

  Wes Craven

  Historical, Figures, Collections

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• Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Spring, Men, Civilization

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2007). “Around the Red Lamp: Medical Life As It Used to Be”, p.47, Fireship Press

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• I think it's interesting that there's always a dark cloud hanging over my character, in every movie. Even in Fat Man and Little Boy, where it's a real dark cloud. In Mask, it's more the judgment of others, but it's still a threat.

  Laura Dern

  Real, Character, Dark

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• I rarely do masks because, if I have any extra time, I'd rather spend it with my friends than on myself.

  Eva Herzigova

  Extra Time, Extras, My Friends

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• I would have loved to have been in The Stand. I would also loved to have been in The Mask.

  Richard O'Brien

  Has Beens

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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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• I went to Julliard and we did a lot of mask work there, and I remember thinking in class, 'When am I ever going to use this?

  Benjamin Walker

  Thinking, Class, Use

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• The moon carries the masks of meningitis into bedrooms, fills the wombs of pregnant women with cold water and, as soon as I'm not careful, throws handfuls of grass on my shoulders.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Moon, Water, Cold

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• When I started making enough money to afford high-end, fancy skincare products with sexy bottles and impressive claims, I decided to give them a try. As a result my skin acted up and got irritated. I think sometimes women may be overcleansing their skin. Some products and masks can be too aggressive and irritating for certain skin types. I believe the more simple, natural, and easy the skin care regime, the better off your skin will be.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Sexy, Believe, Simple

  "Q&A: Jennifer Aniston and Her Makeup Artist Talk Beauty". Interview with Tina Turnbow, www.thecut.com. July 1, 2013.

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• Year by year, the monkey's mask reveals the monkey

  Matsuo Basho

  Years, Monkeys

  c.1689 On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho, no.3 (translated by Lucien Stryk).

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• The seen and seeing softly mutually strike Their glass barrier that arrests the sight. But the world's being hides in the volcanoes And the foul history pressed into its core; And to myself my being is my childhood And passion and entrails and the roots of senses; I'm pressed into the inside of a mask At the back of love, the back of air, the back of light.

  Stephen Spender

  Passion, Sight, Air

  Stephen Spender (2015). “New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.189, Faber & Faber

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• Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask.

  Charles Bukowski

  Men, Papa, Revolution

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Notes of a Dirty Old Man”, p.46, City Lights Books

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• I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.

  Aristophanes

  Kissing, Eggs, Shells

  Aristophanes (2012). “The Birds”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• The creed of evil has been, since the beginnings of highly industrialized society, not only a precursor of barbarism but a mask of good. The worth of the latter was transferred to the evil that drew to itself all the hatred and resentment of an order which drummed good into its adherents so that it could with impunity be evil.

  Theodor Adorno

  Order, Evil, Hatred

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.94, Verso

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• First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.

  Bobby Fischer

  Real, Mean, Firsts

  "The Fischer King" by William Nack, www.si.com. September 14, 1992.

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• There are no Russian units in eastern Ukraine - no special services, no tactical advisors. All this is being done by the local residents, and the proof of that is the fact that those people have literally removed their masks.

  Vladimir Putin

  Ukraine, People, Special

  Vladimir Putin during a Question-and-Answer Session, www.washingtonpost.com. April 17, 2014.

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• But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hard Times, Brave, Secret

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.377

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• To the casual observer it looks like I have moved on since I go around wearing my little happy mask all day. I smile and laugh and carry on like my heart's still in one piece, but beneath it all, I am dying.

  Melody Carlson

  Heart, Laughing, Dying

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• The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Police, Half, Beard

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• [Dr. Constain James] refuted so well the aberrations of Darwinism.... [A system] which is repugnant at once to history, to the tradition of all people, to exact science, to observed facts, and even to reason itself, would seem to need no refutation. But the corruption of this age, the machinations of the perverse, the danger of the simple, demand that such fancies, altogether absurd though they are, should - since they borrow the mask of science - be refuted by true science.

  Pope Pius IX

  Simple, People, Scary

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• Through exploitation of its influence over global financial affairs, the United States has been able to cover the costs of its hegemonic position, preserve a false domestic prosperity, and mask the consequences of its relative political and economic decline.

  Robert Gilpin

  Political, United States, Cost

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.308, Princeton University Press

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• No perfume. Because I want to know how you smell - right off the bat. Don't mask it up. I need to know how you smell because I need to know how we connect. A smell is a big thing. Pheromones. Don't cover that.

  Chris D'Elia

  Smell, Bats, Needs

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of the mask and appearance we must not make a real essence, nor of what is foreign what is our very own.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Real, Character, Essence

  Michel de Montaigne (2003). “The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters”, Everyman's Library

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