Closets Quotes - Page 15

• Growing up, I thought my grandfather was dead. Later, I learned he was alive, but my family pretended he didn't exist because of the terrible way he'd abused my grandmother and my mother. He did things like shave my grandmother's head and lock her in a closet. With my mother's help, my grandmother finally left him.

  Deborah Pryce

  Mother, Growing Up, Domestic Violence

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• I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office.

  David Cone

  Thinking, Skeletons, Office

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• The funny thing about these uniforms is that you hang them in the closet and they get smaller and smaller.

  Curt Flood

  Baseball, Funny Things, Uniforms

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• I don't consider writing a quiet, closet act.
  I consider it a real physical act.
  When I'm home writing on the typewriter, I go crazy.
  I move like a monkey.
  I've wet myself, I've come in my pants writing.

  Patti Smith

  Crazy, Real, Moving

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• I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.

  Dorothea Dix

  Insane Person, Gentleman, Cages

  Dorothea Lynde Dix (1843). “Memorial: To the Legislature of Massachusetts [protesting Against the Confinement of Insane Persons and Idiots in Almshouses and Prisons]”, p.4

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• It's like I'm in a closet in a college dorm room.

  Cody Lundin

  College, Survival, Rooms

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• If I was gay, there’d be no closet. You’d never see the closet I came out of. Why? I would have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve! Because I know, with all certainty in my mind, there’s nothing wrong with being gay and you know it! And there’s nothing wrong with being into chicks if you’re a girl. And there’s nothing wrong with being into all of it…. How awesome would it be to be bisexual? To just walk into a room and go ‘MMMM, ALRIGHT!!!!’

  Henry Rollins

  Girl, Gay, Bisexual

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• SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of fetish clothes, or a basement filled with bondage furniture.

  Patrick Califia

  Art, Clothes, Sms

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• One thing is certain: for many of those who came back from WWII, the music of Frank Sinatra was no consolation for their losses. Some had lost friends. Some had lost wives and lovers. All had lost portions of their youth. More important to the Sinatra career the girls started marrying the men who came home. Bobby socks vanished from many closets. The girls who wore them had no need anymore for imaginary lovers; they had husbands. Nothing is more embarrassing to grownups than the passions of adolescence, and for many, Frank Sinatra was the passion.

  Pete Hamill

  Girl, Husband, Passion

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• I never try to make a major fashion statement but I want to be the friend in a woman's closet. I make dresses that women get laid in.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Fashion, Trying, Dresses

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• My goal in life is to be your best friend when you open your closet

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Goal, Life Is, Your Best Friend

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• Six hundred years is an awfully long time, Ever. So long it's impossible for either of us to imagine. Though it is more than enough time to rack up a few dirty skeletons for the old metaphorical closet, right?

  Alyson Noel

  Dirty, Skeletons, Years

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• 'Brokeback Mountain' is a sad love story about two people who can't be together, and the reason that they can't be together is because being gay is a stigmatized thing. It would be interesting to have the same movie in which the two guys weren't in the closet and there was no shame about them being gay and they couldn't be together for other reasons. I still feel like we're a long way from that happening.

  Wesley Morris

  Sad Love, Gay, Two

  "Wesley Morris, boston globe film critic: 'they hate people who have opinions that run contrary to their fanaticism'". Interview with Naoki O'Bryan, jameson-zimmer.squarespace.com. April 15, 2013.

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• Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events. They are about surviving, and what you look like when you emerge from the trial. The reason we keep telling fairy tales over and over, that we need to keep telling them, is that the trials change. So the stories change too, and the heroines and villains and magical objects, to keep them true. Fairy tales are the closets where the world keeps its skeletons.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Skeletons, Needs, Looks

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• The concept that a person who has a lot holds his hand out to someone who has less, or someone who isn't hurting holds his hand out to someone who is, is simply a human trait that has nothing to do with celebrity. I am confounded at the stinginess of some institutions and some people. I'm bewildered by it. You can only put away so much stuff in your closet.

  Paul Newman

  Hurt, Hands, People

  "Paul Newman's Road To Glory". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.filmmonthly.com. July 1, 2002.

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• We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets.

  Harvey Milk

  Winning, Rights, Staying

  Harvey Milk (2013). “An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings”, p.218, Univ of California Press

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• I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.

  Dolly Parton

  Running, Gay, Would Be

  "Q&A: Dolly Parton On Lesbian Wedding Rumors & Boob Advice, Says Drag Name Is ‘P. Titty’". Interview with Chris Azzopardi, pridesource.com. May 6, 2014.

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• What makes horror movies work is the idea that "oh my God, what would I do if I were in that situation? How would I get out of that alive? What would I do if I saw the door to my closet creaking open in the middle of the night and a doll on a tricycle comes riding out?"

  James Wan

  Night, Doors, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• We all have rosy memories of a simpler, happy time- a time of homemade apple pie and gingham curtains, a time when Mom understood everything and Dad could fix anything. "Let's get those traditional family values back!" we murmur to each other. Meanwhile, in a simultaneous universe, everyone I know, and every celebrity I don't know, is coming out of the closet to talk about how miserable they are because they grew up in dysfunctional families.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Mom, Dad, Memories

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• I'm not a huge comic book fan, but I'm a closet fan of certain Marvel heroes, two of those being Iron Man, and the other being Guardians of the Galaxy, which I'm looking forward to.

  Kevin Feige

  Book, Hero, Men

  Source: screenrant.com

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• The more it happens, the easier it is for others, although I do understand why some actors choose not to come out. I have several famous friends who are still in the closet.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Actors, Easier, Stills

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• A woman doesn't find it contradictory to complain about not having anything to wear and about not having enough closet space in the same conversation. You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

  Marie Stopes

  Beautiful, Space, Soul

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• Cluttered closets mean a cluttered mind.

  Louise Hay

  Mean, Mind

  Louise L. Hay (2009). “You Can Heal Your Life”, p.164, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• My philosophy is, honestly never collected anything that I don't play. I know a lot of people that collect guitars, but for me, I want instruments that I play. And if I don't play them, I don't' want to have them sitting in a closet collecting dust.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Philosophy, Dust, Play

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• I don't think you necessarily have to put away your summer closet to go into fall. You can incorporate the fall pieces into your normal summer wardrobe.

  Elsa Hosk

  Summer, Fall, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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