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• I have to give the SNL crew props - it cannot have been easy to work with me.

  Darrell Hammond

  Giving, Snl, Easy

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• Tradition is a prop for social security.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Tradition, Social, Security

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• Writing is the thing that props me up.

  Horton Foote

  Writing

  "His Kind of Town" by Alex Witchel, www.nytimes.com. August 19, 2007.

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• I like the prop food so much that I eat it between takes as well as on camera.

  James Gandolfini

  Cameras, Wells

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• Simon looked from one of them to the other, and shook his head. “ When did you two get so buddy-buddy? Last night it was all, ‘I’m the most elite warrior!’ ‘ No, I’m the most elite warrior!’ And today you’re playing Halo and giving each other props for good ideas.

  Cassandra Clare

  Warrior, Night, Ideas

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1532, Simon and Schuster

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• The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing all the work and reason, debilitated by neglect, weakly fails to prop them up.

  Julian Baggini

  Trying, Argument, Failing

  "The modern believer is not suspicious enough" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2012.

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• American society loves to prop people up and then take them down.

  Zach Galifianakis

  People, American Society

  "Megan Fox". Interview with Zach Galifianakis, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2010.

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• I had to face the fact that I had been using my gay friends as props. They were always supposed to be funny and entertain me and praise me and listen to my problems, and their life was supposed to be a secret that no one wanted to hear about. I wanted them to stay in the “half closet.

  Tina Fey

  Gay, Secret, Half

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• Art glows with faith even in its weakest parts. At every moment, writing is an act of self-confidence – the sheerest, most determined, most stubborn self-belief. You CAN have faith and doubt at the same time; the most insecure writer on the planet has faith that shines just as bright as her doubt, and she deserves props for that. It might be hidden deep, she might not feel it and you might not see it, but it’s in there, or she wouldn’t be able to write.

  Kristin Cashore

  Art, Writing, Insecure

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• Flannery craved a cigarette. Her nerves were so tense that only nicotine could soothe them, and for the first time, she genuinely understood how the drug worked. It wasn't just a prop or an affectation. It was a tool for mental health.

  Sylvia Brownrigg

  Drug, Nerves, Tools

  Sylvia Brownrigg (2011). “Pages for You”, p.242, Pan Macmillan

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• Crank, You See isn't any ordinary monster. It's like a giant octopus, weaving its tentacles not just around you, but through you, squeezing not hard enough to kill you, but enough to keep you from reeling until you try to get away. Try, and you hunger for it grasping clutch, the way its tendrils prop you up, your need intensifying exponentially every minute you refuse to admit its being (p.469)

  Ellen Hopkins

  Octopus, Trying, Monsters

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.328, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't like having characters as props. I never want a character to be a prop.

  Will Gluck

  Character, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not a big prop actor.

  Nathan Fillion

  Actors, Bigs

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 11, 2013.

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• When I started driving our old four-door green DeSoto, I always took Skip on my trips around town. I would get Skip to prop himself against the steering wheel, his black head peering out of the windshield, while I crouched out of sight under the dashboard. Slowing the car to ten or fifteen, I would guide the steering wheel with my right hand while Skip, with his paws, kept it steady. As we drove by the Blue Front Café, I could hear one of the men shout: "Look at that ol' dog drivin' a car!"

  Willie Morris

  Funny, Dog, Men

  Willie Morris (2008). “My Dog Skip”, p.11, Vintage

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• We had an electronic head and arm for Threepio, and I manipulated the mechanism with a joystick. But it wasn't working. The propman said, 'Give me fifteen minutes.' We all went to get coffee, and when we came back, Threepio's head turned perfectly and his arm moved naturally. I looked up and realized that the prop man had a fishing pole with a fine nylon string attached to Threepio's arm. He had rigged another string around the head, which Chewbacca was holding. As Chewie moved his hands, Threepio's head turned!

  Irvin Kershner

  Coffee, Men, Hands

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• According to Chekhov," Tamaru said, rising from his chair, "once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired." "Meaning what?" "Meaning, don't bring unnecessary props into a story. If a pistol appears, it has to be fired at some point. Chekhov liked to write stories that did away with all useless ornamentation.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Gun, Stories

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• He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to find it, perhaps, yet in itself that quest had been happier than anything he expected forevermore. Life, it seemed, must be a setting up of props around one - otherwise it was disaster. There was no rest, no quiet. He had been futile in longing to drift and dream, no one drifted except to maelstroms, no one dreamed, without his dreams becoming fantastic nightmares of indecision and regret.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Summer, Dream, Morning

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.377, e-artnow

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• Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.

  Cesare Pavese

  Strong, Men, Giving

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.58, Transaction Publishers

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• Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

  John Ruskin

  Conceited, Men, Vanity

  John Ruskin (1899). “On the Old Road: A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature (Complete)”, p.170, Library of Alexandria

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• The California proposition [Prop. 187] is one I would agree with. That's the easiest way to put it.

  Bob Dole

  California, Immigration, Way

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• O time, swift robber of all created things, how many kings, how many nations hast thou undone, and how many changes of states and of various events have happened since the wondrous forms of this fish perished here in this cavernous and winding recess. Now destroyed by time thou liest patiently in this confined space with bones stripped and bare; serving as a support and prop for the superimposed mountain.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Time, Kings, Space

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.453, GENERAL PRESS

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• Oh, please. If she's going to use Mr. Darcy to prop up her arguments, I give up.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Giving Up, Use, Argument

  Sophie Kinsella (2013). “Wedding Night”, p.110, Random House

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• Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our infirmity.

  William Wordsworth

  Glory, Infirmity, Boast

  'The Prelude' (1850) bk. 2, l. 211

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• God is Godless. God is an idea that we have, another construct, a prop, which doesn't suggest that God doesn't exist. God is existence. But your idea of God and existence are two different things at the moment.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Ideas, Two

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• I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.

  Adam Garcia

  Clothes, Memento, Chairs

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