Props Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• Stirner's political praxis is quixotic. It accepts the established hierarchies of constraint as given. ... Not liable to any radical change, they constitute part of the theatre housing the individual's action. ... The egoist uses the elements of the social structure as props in his self-expressive act.

  John Carroll

  Self, Political, Theatre

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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 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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• 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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• 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 check all my props, everything. Acting is something I love. I have done it since I was 13 but it had completely taken over my life absolutely.

  Barbara Windsor

  Taken, Acting, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is a grand fearlessness in faith. He who in his heart of hearts reverences the good, the true, the holy--that is, reverences God--does not tremble at the apparent success of attacks upon the outworks of faith. They may shake those who rest on those outworks--they do not move him whose soul reposes on the truth itself. He needs no prop or crutches to support his faith. Founded on a Rock, Faith can afford to gaze undismayed at the approaches of Infidelity.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Faith, Moving, Heart

  Frederick William Robertson (1861). “Sermons ...”, p.192

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• The externals are simply so many props; everything we need is within us.

  Etty Hillesum

  Needs

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.463, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity.

  Plutarch

  House, Humanity, Temples

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.62

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• And if Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that cool props and special effects are not enough. Story comes first. Everything depends on story.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Taught Us, Special, Hollywood

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• I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman. It was so intense that the studio got the prop department to make a little pie wagon and they filled it with tarts. I wheeled it around the set and sold them to the crew. I was about eight years old. I always sold out and I didn't have to pay for them. It was a great deal.

  Shirley Temple

  Eight, Years, Pie

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• I'm not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement.

  Mark Cuban

  Jobs, Cutting, Government

  "MARK CUBAN: The Most Patriotic Thing You Can Do". www.businessinsider.com. September 19, 2011.

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• Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands.

  David O. Selznick

  Blow, Wind, Pyramids

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• When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Topics, Debate, Hypothesis

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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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• Some people drink to unleash their libidos, and other people drink to prop up their egos.

  Lou Reed

  People, Alcohol, Drug

  Song: The Power of Positive Drinking, Album: Growing Up in Public

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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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• 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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• In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop.

  Deborah Tall

  Nature, Vacation, Play

  Deborah Tall (1993). “From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”

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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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• Tradition is a prop for social security.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Tradition, Social, Security

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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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• 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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