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I've had some of the best craft services on independent movies, actually, because they get more creative, generally, with a smaller budget.… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I was about five my dad built a stage for me in our basement. A full stage, with a curtain, a… — Paul Reubens Copy Share Image
Well, he's got a much bigger circus to play with, and he has a lot more financing available, and he has a… — Michael Madsen Copy Share Image
If government ownership of land and natural resources was the best way to protect the environment, then we should have found a… — Malcolm Wallop Copy Share Image
You sleep with a dream of summer weather, wake to the thrum of rain—roped down by rain. Nothing out there but drop-heavy… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
Think of all your experiences as a huge tapestry that can be laid out in whatever pattern you wish. Each day you… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
When you have a brilliant sun, which is a source of vision, the light from the sun shines through every window of… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Nothing will serve you better than a strong work ethic. Nothing. And it's something that you can't teach. You have to be… — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
Horror itself is a bit of a bullied genre, the antagonist being literary snobbery and public misconception. And I think good horror… — Kealan Patrick Burke Copy Share Image
I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint;… — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
It's a curse - this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
They do not need the sun. Who needs the sun when the eyes glow? Darkness. A woolen fog has wrapped the earth,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Come, evening, once again, season of peace; Return, sweet evening, and continue long! Methinks I see thee in the streaky west, With… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
So there was great clashes when, you know, if you believe you shouldn't remove your shoes and someone's taking their shoes off,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
And, my brothers, it was real satisfaction to me to waltz-left two three, right two three-and carve left cheeky and right cheeky,… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I wrote my first play, Uncommon Women and Others, in the hopes of seeing an all-female curtain call in the basement of… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
They ended every speech with the word hiro, which means: like I said. Thus each man took responsibility for intruding into the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
My worst year. The only thing that I know for a fact now is that if it's really a bad day, then… — Iman Abdulmajid Copy Share Image
I was shown into a room. A red room. Red wallpaper, red curtains, red carpet. They said it was a sitting-room, but… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
“Trying to divert my mind, I look around the tiny living room. The peach of the faded wall reminds me why I… — Alka Dimri Saklani Copy Share Image
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, when I was a kid I used to hide behind the curtains at home at Christmas and I used to try… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
I know a number of people who - from the comments they make - are going to vote for [Donald] Trump when… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
A curtain of stars, miles of them, are scattered, glowing, across the sky and their multitude humbles me, which I have a… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
For two generations up through the mid-1980s, many thought we were losing the Cold War, even in early 1989, few believed that… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
It snowed all week. Wheels and footsteps moved soundlessly on the street, as if the business of living continued secretly behind a… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of… — Micheal Mac Liammoir Copy Share Image
In His discourses, His miracles, His parables, His sufferings, His resurrection, He gradually raises the pedestal of His humanity before the world,… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
Old politicians, like old actors, revive in the limelight. The vacancy which afflicts them in private momentarily lifts when, oncemore, they feel… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“Occasionally, events in one's life become clearer through the prism of experience, a phrase which simply means that things tend to be… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things, That draws oblivion's curtains over kings; Their sumptuous monuments, men know them not, Their… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Those same people, when they leave the theater, when they look behind the curtains they are curious about their neighbors, they can… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. They… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image