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• Uh, excuse me, sir, I, uh, don't known how to uh, to uh, tell you this, but you were three minutes late. The schedule is a little, uh, bit off." He grinned sheepishly. "That's ridiculous!" murmured the Ticktockman behind his mask. "Check your watch." And then he went into his office, going mrmee, mrmee, mrmee, mrmee.

  Harlan Ellison

  Office, Watches, Three

  Harlan Ellison (1979). “The fantasies of Harlan Ellison”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy.

  Gaston Leroux

  Sadness, Boredom, Joy

  Gaston Leroux (2016). “THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Mystery & Horror Series): Gothic Classic Based on True Events at the Paris Opera”, p.24, e-artnow

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• I consider myself to be a relatively helpful person, and there's an interesting line when hope starts to become the way you actually mask or hide from what's really happening.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Interesting, Lines, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask It's hard to see the pain behind the mask Bearing the burden of a secret storm Sometimes she wishes she was never born

  Martina McBride

  Song, Teacher, Pain

  Song: Concrete Angel

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• I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.

  James H. Boren

  Humorous, Medicine, Medical Bills

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• Talkative represents the man or woman who delights in talking about divine things but has only theoretical knowledge of such things. No actual personal heart experience correlates to the matters they love to discuss so eloquently. They are often highly esteemed by others, but those closest to them would quickly betray a life out-of-sync with their words. The mask fashioned by fluency with all subjects divine hides their real life.

  John Bunyan

  Real, Heart, Men

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• The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.

  Benito Mussolini

  Faces, Building, States

  Benito Mussolini (1954). “Selected Political Addresses of Benito Mussolini: Translations, Notes and Rhetorical Analysis”

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• I have a whole lot of fun in trying to serve others and just keeping it funky, trying to keep it real, trying to ensure that we are able to be ourselves and get beyond these deodorized discourses and deodorized spaces that put on masks.

  Cornel West

  Fun, Real, Space

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Acting, Doe, Actors

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• We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you're looking deep into yourself, and the other person is looking deeply into the same self.

  Alan Watts

  Eye, Self, Energy

  "The essence of Alan Watts".

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• I was always in disguise. I'd wear masks or weird get-ups so you couldn't recognize me. I was always afraid that if somebody caught on that it was me, I'd never work again.

  Paul Reubens

  Caught, Disguise, Ifs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you are psychic you can perceive that someone may love you and they can't show it. Someone may seek to harm you and they mask it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Love You, Psychics, May

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• I have gas mask in my office because I took Chem/bio warfare training class so I can report in case of an attack. It’s on a copy of my head made by Madame Tussauds

  Anderson Cooper

  Class, Office, Training

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• I'm mildly obsessed with skin care. I do a lot of masks at home, like Elisha Coy's Korean Collagen masks. I also use an embarrassingly wide variety of facial creams.

  Nina Arianda

  Home, Skins, Use

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• It was like letting go and falling back into water and seeing yourself grinning up through the water, your face like a mask, and seeing the bubbles coming up as if you were trying to speak from under the water. And how do you know what it's like to try to speak from under water when you're drowned?

  Jean Rhys

  Letting Go, Fall, Water

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• In a jump, the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and his limb muscles. The mask falls. The real self becomes visible. One only has to snap it with the camera.

  Philippe Halsman

  Real, Fall, Self

  Philippe Halsman (1981). “The Mask Falls: Psychological Portraits by Philippe Halsman : a Retrospective Collection of Images from the Photographer's Studio, to be Sold by Public Auction, Friday, November 13, 1981, at 7:00 P.m. at Harris Auction Galleries”

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• I used to have to wear a gas mask to school when I was a kid because of the dust. I would tell people that the first light I saw was in a movie theater, because the sun was just a little glow.

  Dennis Hopper

  School, Kids, Light

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

  Elinor Wylie

  Life, Smile, Philosophical

  Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.42, Kent State University Press

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• I grew up watching Power Rangers, Ninja Turtles, Batman. You name it, I was a huge fan. And that's what I used to play with my friends. We would have the masks and the swords and pretend we had super powers.

  Robbie Amell

  Turtles, Play, Names

  "The Tomorrow People: Robbie Amell On Life With Superpowers". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. October 8, 2013.

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• The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need.

  John Keegan

  Men, Leader, Warfare

  John Keegan (1987). “The Mask of Command”, Random House (UK)

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• I have consecrated my life to changing matter into spirit with the hope of one day seeing it all. Seeing in its total form, while wearing the mask, from the distance of death. And there, in the eternal destiny, to seek the face I had before the world was made.

  Joel-Peter Witkin

  Distance, Destiny, One Day

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• Decorating the gym can't mask the fact that it smells like a mix between corsage and balls.

  Daniel Tosh

  Smell, Balls, Facts

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• There are boys you look at and want to touch with your mouth, and there are boys you look at and want to wear one of those surgical masks everyone in China had during bird flu. There are a lot more bird-flu boys at large.

  Laini Taylor

  Boys, Bird, Looks

  Laini Taylor (2017). “Night of Cake and Puppets: A Daughter of Smoke and Bone Novella”, p.28, Hachette UK

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• Tattoos are interesting, but at the same time they are also a mask - you are exhibiting your past life on your body.

  Keanu Reeves

  Tattoo, Past, Interesting

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• The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.

  William Penn

  Taken, Humility, Humble

  William Penn (1863). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life”, p.63

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