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• No touching Baby Jesus.” “But we’re his parents!” proclaimed Mary Beth, who was being generous to include poor Joseph under this appellation. “Mary Beth,” Barb Wiggin said, “if you touch the Baby Jesus, I’m putting you in a cow costume.

  John Irving

  Baby, Jesus, Parent

  John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co

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• She said, “I’m going to have you fired.” I had two people say that to me today, “I’m going to have you fired.” Go ahead, be my guest. I’m wearing a green velvet costume; it doesn’t get any worse than this. Who do these people think they are? I’m going to have you fired!” and I wanted to lean over and say, “I’m going to have you killed.

  David Sedaris

  Thinking, Two, People

  "Santaland Diaries". Book by David Sedaris, www.npr.org. 1998.

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• Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each ones part until the manager walks them off the stage?

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Play, Actors, Criminal Mind

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• Young people, however, tend to ignore the customs of their elders. Adolescent rebellion has been responsible for all manner of absurd costumes. The more ridiculous a certain fashion is, the more adolescents will cling to it.

  David Eddings

  Fashion, People, Ridiculous

  David Eddings, Leigh Eddings (1997). “Polgara the Sorceress”, Del Rey

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• No, officer, I have no idea why I'm wearing this possum costume. I called you what? OH. My bad." -Nastasya

  Cate Tiernan

  Ideas, Possums, Officers

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• Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth, but to make them beautifu

  Coco Chanel

  Giving, Auras, Jewelry

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• the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Depressing, Real, Modern Life

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.34, Diversion Books

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• When I was a kid my family was really poor and I remember one Halloween I wanted to dress up really scary and my parents came home with a duck costume. I wore that costume for years! I hated it.

  R. L. Stine

  Funny, Halloween, Kids

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• From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.

  Melissa George

  Brother, Dad, Years

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• My son wants to be Batman and he wants the Batman costume that comes in the mail. It has fake muscles in it, which is very disconcerting on a four-year-old.

  Matthew Broderick

  Happy, Halloween, Son

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• Little brats yellin 'Trick or Treat' all through my screen door,
  When y'all should be at home sleep,
  Instead of at my front porch 15 deep.
  The jack o' lantern came in handy...
  I can turn my porch light out like I ain't got no candy.
  But ain't that somethin?
  You buy a Halloween costume and a pumpkin,
  Almost gave your children a heart attack.
  It's a tradition, but who the hell started that?

  Kam

  Children, Halloween, Rap

  Song: Holiday Madness, Album: Neva Again, 1993

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• He giggled like a puppy being tickled by a kitten wearing a duckling costume.

  Jim Benton

  Cute, Ducklings, Puppy

  Jim Benton (2013). “Dear Dumb Diary #11: Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers”, p.64, Scholastic

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• I believe that God—if he exists at all—is what we want him to be. The true God is unknowable, and so we dress him up in costumes that make him visible to us. Then we come up with a lot of very silly rules that we attribute to him and tell everyone if they don't follow those rules, they can't be part of the gang.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Believe, Silly, Dresses

  Michael Thomas Ford (2005). “Looking For It”, p.80, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• And that's when I realized, when you're a kid you don't need a costume, you ARE superman.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Kids, Needs, I Realized

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• I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.

  Jeff Bridges

  Movie, Art, Character

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• I've always been misrepresented. You know, I could dress in a clown costume and laugh with the happy people but they'd still say I'm a dark personality.

  Tim Burton

  Dark, Laughing, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be dictated to by what other people think. I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Drama, Thinking, People

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• I'm a fiend for costume jewellery and have countless pairs of rhinestone or diamante earrings, which are so flattering when they catch the light. I love the designers Alexis Bittar and Kenneth Jay Lane, and I always go to jewellers Butler & Wilson.

  Joan Collins

  Light, Pairs, Designer

  "It was a show-stopping photo - Joan Collins still every inch the glamourpuss. But, she says, it ain't easy to look agelessly fab". www.dailymail.co.uk. December 11, 2013.

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• I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.

  Katey Sagal

  Character, Hair, Play

  FaceBook post by Katey Sagal from Mar 13, 2016

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• I'm a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes. Nearly every one of these - from R2D2 to Hellboy's revolver - ends with the paint job. And it's not just cosmetic. The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it's been, what it's been used for, and for how long.

  Adam Savage

  Jobs, Long, Stories

  "Adam Savage makes an alien helmet replica". www.wired.com. July 25, 2012.

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• I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head - learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.

  Adam Savage

  Brain, Relax, Together

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• When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Bees, Ridiculous, Cannes

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• Don't kid yourself; the guy who's onstage in ripped-up jeans is wearing as much a costume as I am.

  Paul Stanley

  Kids, Jeans, Guy

  "How KISS Frontman Paul Stanley Keeps Fit". Interview with Ben Radding, www.mensfitness.com.

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• Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.

  Lewis Thomas

  Thinking, Doctors, Practice

  Lewis Thomas (1996). “Fragile Species”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• To sum up my idea of on-ice costume fashion sense, it's probably that too much is never enough.

  Johnny Weir

  Fashion, Ice, Ideas

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