Puppets Quotes - Page 6

• And the worst possible thing we could know — worse than knowing of our descent from a mass of microorganisms — is that we are nobodies not somebodies, puppets not people.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Knowing, People, Descent

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• Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten. We'll go nutting once more. We'll pluck the nut of the world, and crack it in the winter evenings. Theaters and all other sightseeing are puppet-shows in comparison. I will take another walk to the Cliff, another row on the river, another skate on the meadow, be out in the first snow, and associate with the winter birds. Here I am at home. In the bare and bleached crust of the earth I recognize my friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Home, Winter

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• It's weird the way "finger puppet" sounds okay as a noun... ladies.

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Humor, Sound

  "Demetri Martin. Person". Documentary, Comedy, Music, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• If humanity has any hope of effecting real change for the better, it will not come from the Madison Avenue false reality makers who've cast Barack Obama as the savior of the world. To alter our course from tyranny to liberty, to defeat the corrupt elite, we must get past the puppets and confront the real power structure of the planet.

  Alex Jones

  Change, Leadership, Real

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• This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys.

  Thomas Frank

  Sunset, Boys, Men

  "Joe Klein’s Turnip Day" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2006.

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• It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant-born, who listens only to himself, and knows nothing of compacts.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Fall, Accomplish Nothing, Hands

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• The first move toward the determination of the direction of my art was the fortunate invention of plans for Blok’s wonder The Puppet Show.

  Vsevolod Meyerhold

  Art, Determination, Moving

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• Grammy asshole weekend in LA. Yuck ... The Grammys = the old guard / old media propping up their puppets trying to convince the outside world, and each other, they're relevant.

  Trent Reznor

  Weekend, Media, Trying

  "Echo Chamber: Trent Reznor" by Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2010.

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• I've never been a puppeteer, I conceive and I write and I design and I direct. And not just puppets. I direct actors, I direct dancers, I direct singers, I direct films. I also direct puppeteers. I'm really a theatre maker, but there's not a word for that.

  Julie Taymor

  Writing, Design, Dancer

  "Theatre Director Probes Humanism". Christopher Reardon, The Christian Science Monitor, November 13, 1992.

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• And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.

  Matt Stone

  Wall, Fun, Team

  "Team America: World Police - Matt Stone Q&A". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• In this day and age, where the Democrat and Republican parties are no longer the voice of Main Street, but the puppets of Wall Street, it is natural that a Third Party should appear to champion the traditionally conservative proposition that the Constitution is the blueprint for the operation of the government of the United States.

  Gatewood Galbraith

  Wall, Party, Government

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• PEOPLE DIE.
  This is the fact the world desperately hides from us from birth. Long after you find out the truth about sex and Santa Claus, this other myth endures, this one about how you’ll always get rescued at the last second and if not, your death will at least mean something and there’ll be somebody there to hold your hand and cry over you. All of society is built to prop up that lie, the whole world a big, noisy puppet show meant to distract us from the fact that at the end, you’ll die, and you’ll probably be alone.

  David Wong

  Sex, Lying, Mean

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.133, Titan Books

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• I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.

  Barry Levinson

  Hands, House, Television

  Interview with Adrian Wootton at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.

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• I'd always thought that heavy metal - what I knew of it, anyway - was for tragic losers with acne and inch-thick glasses who fantasised about slaying dragons and riding Harleys, failing to realise at the time that the only loser was me. Fortunately, a good friend of mine played me 'Battery' from Metallica's Master Of Puppets album and the scales fell instantly from my eyes. It was a total revelation.

  Joel McIver

  Eye, Good Friend, Glasses

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• The thing with animation is that you record the actors like a radio show and then the animators become actors in their own way because it's their job to take this puppets and make them seem alive. They bring their own personalities to the way they move these puppets.

  Wes Anderson

  Jobs, Moving, Personality

  "Wes Anderson on Darjeeling Limited: The RT Interview". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. November 22, 2007.

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• So I'm not wrong when I said you are a puppet? That you have no voice or choice in deciding?

  Sergio Martinez

  Motivation, Voice, Choices

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• I have no idea why people want to watch puppets be the slightly meaner version of the weirdo holding them. It's beyond my comprehension.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Ideas, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As a director, there is nothing more fun than seeing an audience screaming and jumping. You are the ultimate puppet master, controlling the emotions of the audience.

  Fede Alvarez

  Fun, Jumping, Directors

  "Filmmaker Fede Alvarez digs up scares with 'Evil Dead'". Interview with Joseph Airdo, www.axs.com. April 4, 2013.

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• I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it. If it's a sock puppet, if it's a stool, I'll do it.

  Tig Notaro

  Dark, Thinking, Stools

  "Tig Notaro: You’ll Laugh, You’ll Cry". Interview with Sydney Brownstone, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2013.

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• As the writer you are the puppet-master and can control everything. Believe me, that is a whole lot of fun because it ain't something that's going to be happening very often in real life!

  Christopher Paul Curtis

  Fun, Real, Believe

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis.

  William Jackson

  Dirty, Character, Good Friend

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• There are two ways. One is to be a puppet, follow the culture, and do whatever they want. That was mentally disturbing to me, and still is. And the other way is to go out. I knew there would be problems from my family, and also from my environment. But I thought that physical pain would be better than the mental pain. And I started working as an artist.

  Malina Suliman

  Pain, Artist, Two

  "Afghan graffiti artist risks her life to challenge the burqa under the Taliban". Interview with Katie Booth, womenintheworld.com. May 21, 2015.

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• I think I've got it pretty easy compared with somebody who works at a desk nine to five. I'm just working for an hour in the evening. I get a bit breathless, as I have to talk non-stop because of the puppets.

  Nina Conti

  Thinking, Nine, Evening

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• The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother.

  Elinor Smith

  Mother, Children, Needs

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• You know, it’s the same thing as the question of free will and destiny, the question of creativity - you, the artist, you’re not the puppet of the piano, you’re not the puppet of the muse, but you’re not its master, either. It’s a relationship, it’s a conversation, and all it wants is to be treated with respect and dignity - and it will return ten thousand times over.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Creativity, Artist, Destiny

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