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One blob of red in the wrong place and the audience isn't looking at the hero, they're looking at a patch of curtain (or something… — Terence Fisher
It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at… — Jonah Lomu
[Y]ou will understand the game behind the curtain too well not to perceive the old trick of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating… — James Madison
You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understanding of how a film gets made. I actually find those things… — Jay Roach
Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window,… — Oscar Wilde
I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used,… — David Knopfler
I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much. — Paul Thomas Anderson
It's nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a fluttering nervousness before a curtain goes up on… — Ben Brantley
You know, entertainment is just a curtain at the end of the day. — Aubrey O'Day
I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they… — Nina Bawden
As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape and all surfaces,… — Henry David Thoreau
You have won the Cold War. ... [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over. ... For the… — Bob Dole
Oh! now to be alone, on some grand height, Where heaven’s black curtains shadow all the sight, And watch the swollen clouds their bosom clash,… — Robert Montgomery
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played. — Francois Rabelais
The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing… — Charles Dickens
Spring is beautiful, and smells sweet. Spring is when you shake the curtains, and pound on the rugs, and take off your long underwear, and… — Virginia Cary Hudson
We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves. — Herman Wouk
Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back… — Anton Chekhov
The distinction that Jews have themselves always made between Jews of German origin and Jews of East European origin is as stringent as that between… — Diana Trilling
For a moment man is a boy, for a moment a lovesick youth, for a moment bereft of wealth, for a moment in the height… — Bhartrhari
What's exciting is there's a curtain that divides the audience from this other world. You want to see behind. — Matthew Macfadyen
Within silence all things are contained. What appears to our eyes to be life is but a thin curtain, a gauze penumbra, which stultifies our… — Frederick Lenz
I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they are… — Mike White
Perhaps the Doors, Curtains, Surface Pictures, Panes of Glass, etc. are metaphors of despair, prompted by the dilemma that our sense of sight causes us… — Gerhard Richter

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