Props Quotes - Page 5

• A wedding isn't for the bride and groom, it's for the family and friends. The B. and G. are just props, silly stick figures with no more significance than the pink and white candy figures on the top of the cake.

  Susan Cheever

  Silly, Cake, White

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• I don't like stand-up comedy that requires a lot of props. I really respect people who can walk out onstage alone and with no other tool but their own minds and can make you laugh and maybe even think a little.

  David Letterman

  Thinking, People, Laughing

  "David Letterman's 1984 Playboy Interview. A Candid Conversation with the Comedy Genius In His Youth". Playboy Interview, playboysfw.kinja.com. 1984.

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• I read at least one periodical every month by a political group I dislike - to keep some sense of balance. The overwhelming stupidity of political movements is caused by the fact that political types never read anything but their own gang's agit-prop.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Political, Stupidity, Balance

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we're pretty dumpy creatures.

  Aaron Belz

  Beautiful, Sexy, Reality

  "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

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• I steal props from SNL a great deal. Almost every sketch Im in, I try to grab something from it, so I have a storage space full of props.

  Bobby Moynihan

  Storage Space, Trying, Stealing

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• The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.

  Andrew Ross Sorkin

  Government, May, Economy

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• It seems to me that obliviousness about white advantage, like obliviousness about male advantage, is kept strongly inculturated in the United States so as to maintain the myth of meritocracy, the myth that democratic choice is equally available to all. Keeping most people unaware that freedom of confident action is there for just a small number of people props up those in power and serves to keep power in the hands of the same groups that have most of it already.

  Peggy McIntosh

  Small Numbers, Hands, White Privilege

  "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming To See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies". 1988.

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• Pluck from under the family all the props which religion and morality have given it, strip it of the glamour, true or false, cast round it by romance, it will still remain a prosaic, indisputable fact, that the whole business of begetting, bearing and rearing children, is the most essential of all the nation's businesses.

  Eleanor Rathbone

  Family, Business, Children

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• When they saw me walking down the street smoking a cigar, they'd say, 'Hey, that 14-year-old kid may be going places.' Of course it's also a good prop on the stage ... When you can't think of what you're supposed to say next, you can puff on your cigar until you think of your next line.

  George Burns

  Kids, Thinking, Years

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• Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Thinking, Thoughtful

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• I did spend about 5 years in the Griffin Theatre Company in 1978 actually , and worked therefore about 5 years on a voluntary basis. This was very much as a amateur, doing things like mopping the floor, handling props, setting up scenery, etc. I never acted, and don't think I'm an actor, but those years in the theatre taught me a lot about professional theatre.

  Robert Dessaix

  Thinking, Years, Theatre

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• I've never felt really creative or intuitive using software. I like paper and pens and paint. I need to angle real lights on my artwork and work with my hands and build props. Computers just take all that fun out of it [animation drawing].

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Fun, Real, Drawing

  Source: www.notcoming.com

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• Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Civilization, Names

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”

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• I am a comedian but it's usually not a compliment to be called a prop comedian but I guess I sometimes use props. And I always confuse humorist with comedian. That's strange.

  Demetri Martin

  Comedian, Use, Strange

  Source: www.thefutoncritic.com

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• I have over five thousand costumes and props and cars, and I have a twenty-five thousand square foot warehouse full of memorabilia.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Squares, Feet, Car

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Being movie director you've got the art department, you've got the actors, you've got the camera department, you've got make-up and hair, and props. You've got your finger in all these pies, and you're making sure that everything cooks at the right temperature.

  Michael Fassbender

  Art, Pie, Hair

  "Michael Fassbender Talks Haywire, Twelve Years a Slave, Prometheus, and X-men: First Class Sequel". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 17, 2012.

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• And by the way, I would not only reappoint Greenspan; if Greenspan would happen to die, God forbid, I would do like they did in the movie 'Weekend at Bernie's.' I would prop him up and put a pair of dark glasses on him.

  John McCain

  Dark, Weekend, Glasses

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• The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Reign, Masterpiece

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• Any solid lighter than a fluid will, if placed in the fluid, be so far immersed that the weight of the solid will be equal to the weight of the fluid displaced.
  On floating bodies I, prop 5.

  Archimedes

  Weight, Body, Floating

  Archimedes, Sir Thomas Little Heath (2002). “The Works of Archimedes”, p.257, Courier Corporation

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• I don't like to eat in movies. I don't like props. Some people have always got to have a thing and they're doing this or doing that. I hate it. I just want to talk or fight. Or both!

  Mark Wahlberg

  Hate, Fighting, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• After the door of a woman's heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it.

  Myrtle Reed

  Heart, Men, Thinking

  Myrtle Reed (2012). “The Spinster Book”, p.69, tredition

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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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• There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance, said the Ellen Ward of my dream, that woman I hate and fear. I am sure she meant some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at which two lines prop each other up, the leaning together from the vertical which produces the false arch.

  Wallace Stegner

  Two, Hopeful, Brain

  "Angle of Repose".

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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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• 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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