Closets Quotes - Page 17

• My friend Sally is a nudist. I went to her house. The closets have no doors. The walls are covered with see-through wallpaper.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Friendship, Wall

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• We have not been men of prayer. The spirit of prayer has slumbered among us. The closet has been too little frequented and delighted in. We have allowed business, study or active labor to interfere with our closet-hours. And the feverish atmosphere in which both the church and the nation are enveloped has found its way into our prayer closets.

  Bonar Law

  Prayer, Men, Atmosphere

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• Every movie I work with the costume designer to see what feels like the character, not what Columbus would wear but what is right for the character. Outside of the armored truck standard issue security guard uniform, this guy is trying to make ends meet. He might have one pair of jeans, the same boot, maybe changes his shirt but he doesn't have a walk-in closet full of things, so I wanted something comfortable that felt like the character.

  Columbus Short

  Character, Security Guards, Jeans

  Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. December 02, 2009.

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• I was raised in a household where being gay was like, the most normal thing. My brother is gay, all of my best friends are gay. When my brother came out of the closet, it wasn't a big deal for my family.

  Ariana Grande

  Brother, Gay, My Best Friend

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• All of my life, actually, I had a real strong relationship with God, but I was always in the closet about it. The only distance out of the closet I really want to come there is having my tattoo or wearing my t-shirt.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Tattoo, Strong, Real

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When things aren't going well, I complain a lot and get depressed. I whine and I eat and I go to sleep. I do all kinds of things. And if I'm smart, I'll go and clean out a drawer or a closet or go and pay my bills. I do get myself into situations where I'm not happy with what's going on. But you just have to wait it out and have faith that that dry well will fill up again.

  Mary Ann Hoberman

  Smart, Sleep, Waiting

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• In any closet, you can find it, if it is too small, or out of style, or there is just one of it where there should be two

  Bertrand Russell

  Fashion, Two, Style

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• It's amazing what eliminating energy drains can do to our mood. Remember how good you felt when you finally went through your closet and cleaned out the old clothes that you were sure you'd wear again someday?

  Cheryl Richardson

  Encouragement, Clothes, Energy

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• It was nobody’s choice. It was a chemical reaction. I had to cut it. It basically fell out. Somebody had said to me that it was just because, you know, you’re trying to make Gail, you know, because she’s just now coming out of the closet…Not even for 2 seconds would we ever do that. It literally was a really bad hair experience.

  Charlotte Sullivan

  Cutting, Hair, Choices

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• What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates your duty. And by writing about black people, you are not limiting yourself. The experiences of African-Americans are as wide open as God's closet.

  August Wilson

  Writing, Responsibility, Artist

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• I think that the most important reason to come out is your own sanity; that's above everything else. I think that applies whether you're a public figure or not. The closet is a terrible place to be for the person who's in it.

  Christopher Rice

  Thinking, Important, Sanity

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• I used it in a shot where Richard Burton goes down the hall to get a gun in a closet. And I wanted to get some excitement, and the hallway was too narrow for the dollies that they had at that time. So it was quite useful.

  Haskell Wexler

  Gun, Excitement, Used

  "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• The closet exists because people don't talk about it, so that people going into political careers make a calculation early on. They say to themselves, "well, the closet is under the radar, I can do this."

  Kirby Dick

  Careers, People, Political

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The upside of being in the closet is that you develop skills of duplicity, which are great for big-time politicians.

  Kirby Dick

  Skills, Duplicity, Politician

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I wrote before I could write. I got my hands on a journal, maybe a hand-me-down; I had three older siblings. My first entries are in the handwriting of the sister closets in age (5 years my senior). She must have gotten tired of my dictations because she gave up and then my blocky scrawl shows up. I wrote plays as a kid mostly.

  Julianna Baggott

  Senior, Sibling, Writing

  "The Rumpus Interview With Julianna Baggott". Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• I never wanted anyone to know about me and Osama [Bin Laden]. I wanted that to be a secret that I carried to my grave, and since I wasn't the one who revealed it'it's definitely something that I wish was in the closet. It's destroyed my career.

  Kola Boof

  Careers, Secret, Wish

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• If you want to get a child to love you, then you should just go hide in the closet for three or for hours. They get down on their knees and pray for you to return. That child will turn you into God. Lonely children probably wrote the Bible.

  Heather O'Neill

  Lonely, Children, Love You

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• Market bashers ... might understand the claim that in some particular field, markets required no intervention--though they'd be skeptical--but the notion that, on general principle, complex systems ran themselves just fine without benign intervention seemed like it could only be the product of a quasi-religious faith. ... Of course, this gets things almost precisely backwards. It is the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that has the closet affinity to the religious instinct.

  Julian Sanchez

  Religious, Order, Ideas

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• I wanted Bow's hair and makeup and clothing to look like a woman who has four children, a career, and a full life. For example, she won't wear eyeshadow unless she's going out. Because it takes a lot of time to put eyeshadow on. She's a woman who has style, but it's all about functionality - she grabs stuff from her closet.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Children, Makeup, Hair

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• A lot of people went underground with their spiritual life in the seventies, but they're out there in little nooks and crannies and in the countryside, people who look and dress straight, insurance salesmen types, but they're really meditators and chanters, closet devotees.

  George Harrison

  Spiritual, People, Dresses

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.

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• I have to come out of the closet of the third person and speak in a more direct way.

  Susan Sontag

  Way, Speak, Third Person

  Source: ctheory.net

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• If you look at my closet, there's all kinds of shoes, but at the same time I don't want to spread myself thin as far as designs and collabs.

  Fabolous

  Shoes, Design, Looks

  Source: www.complex.com

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• When I moved to New York, I was still in the closet.

  Ryan McGinley

  New York, Stills, Moved

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I made a drawing for a book I'm working . It's a little drawing of a girl who's ashamed and upset and hides in the corner of the closet. It's the kind of drawing that I feel like I'm really good at.

  Lynne Rae Perkins

  Girl, Book, Drawing

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• You can't speak freely and openly on the most important issue of the day because you're fearful that your closet is going to come and haunt you. I choose to air my closet.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Issues, Air, Important

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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